Malachi 2:16

Bible in Basic English 1965

For I am against the putting away of a wife, says the Lord, the God of Israel, and against him who is clothed with violent acts, says the Lord of armies: so give thought to your spirit and do not be false in your acts.

Cross References

Psalm 73:6

For this reason pride is round them like a chain; they are clothed with violent behaviour as with a robe.

Proverbs 28:13

He who keeps his sins secret will not do well; but one who is open about them, and gives them up, will get mercy.

Proverbs 5:20

Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?

Isaiah 28:20

For the bed is not long enough for a man to be stretched out on: and the cover is not wide enough for him to be covered with.

Isaiah 50:1

This is the word of the Lord: Where is the statement which I gave your mother when I put her away? or to which of my creditors have I given you for money? It was for your sins that you were given into the hands of others, and for your evil-doing was your mother put away.

Isaiah 59:6

Their twisted threads will not make clothing, and their works will give them nothing for covering themselves: their works are works of sin, and violent acts are in their hands.

Luke 16:18

Everyone who puts away his wife and takes another, is a false husband: and he who is married to a woman whose husband has put her away, is no true husband to her.

1 Corinthians 7:10

But to the married I give orders, though not I but the Lord, that the wife may not go away from her husband