Malachi 2:16

American King James Version (1999)

For the LORD, the God of Israel, said that he hates putting away: for one covers violence with his garment, said the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that you deal not treacherously.

Cross References

Psalm 73:6

Therefore pride compasses them about as a chain; violence covers them as a garment.

Proverbs 28:13

He that covers his sins shall not prosper: but whoever confesses and forsakes them shall have mercy.

Proverbs 5:20

And why will you, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

Isaiah 28:20

For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.

Isaiah 50:1

Thus said the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorce, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have you sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.

Isaiah 59:6

Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

Luke 16:18

Whoever puts away his wife, and marries another, commits adultery: and whoever marries her that is put away from her husband commits adultery.

1 Corinthians 7:10

And to the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: