Malachi 2:15

Catholic Public Domain Version

Did not One make her, and is she not the remainder of his spirit? And what does one seek, except offspring of God? So then, preserve your spirit, and do not despise the wife of your youth.

Cross References

Genesis 1:27

And God created man to his own image; to the image of God he created him; male and female, he created them.

Genesis 2:7

And then the Lord God formed man from the clay of the earth, and he breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

Genesis 24:44

And she will say to me, "You drink, and I will also draw for your camels." Let the same be the woman, whom the Lord has prepared for the son of my lord.'

Genesis 27:46

And Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob accepts a wife from the stock of this land, I would not be willing to live."

Genesis 6:2

the sons of God, seeing that the daughters of men were beautiful, took to themselves wives from all whom they chose.

Ezra 9:4

Then all those who feared the word of the God of Israel gathered to me, because of the transgression of those who had arrived from the captivity. And I sat in sorrow, until the evening sacrifice.

Nehemiah 13:24

And their sons spoke partly in the speech of Ashdod, and they did not know how to speak the Jewish language, and they were speaking according to the language of one people or another.

Job 27:3

as long as my breath remains in me and the breath of God remains in my nostrils,

Exodus 20:14

You shall not commit adultery.

Proverbs 2:17

and who leaves behind the Guide of her youth,

Proverbs 4:23

Preserve your heart with all watchfulness, for life proceeds from this.

Proverbs 6:25

Let not your heart desire her beauty; do not be captivated by her winks.

Proverbs 7:25

Do not let your mind be pulled into her ways. And do not be deceived by her paths.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to its earth, from which it was, and the spirit returns to God, who granted it.

Jeremiah 2:21

Yet I planted you as an elect vineyard, with only true seed. Then how have you been turned away from me, toward that which is depraved, O strange vineyard?

Hosea 1:10

And the number of the sons of Israel will be like the sand of the sea, which is without measure and cannot be numbered. And in the place where it will be said to them, 'You are not my people,' this will happen: it will be said to them, 'You are the sons of the living God.'

Leviticus 20:10

If anyone will have committed sexual acts with the wife of another, or will have perpetrated adultery with his neighbor's spouse, they shall die a death, both the adulterer and the adulteress.

Malachi 2:14

And you have said, "What is the reason for this?" It is because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, whom you have despised. Yet she was your partner, and the wife of your covenant.

Matthew 15:19

For from the heart go out evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.

John 20:22

When he had said this, he breathed on them. And he said to them: "Receive the Holy Spirit.

Acts 3:25

You are sons of the prophets and of the testament which God has appointed for our fathers, saying to Abraham: 'And by your offspring all the families of the earth shall be blessed.'

1 Corinthians 7:14

For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified through the believing wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified through the believing husband. Otherwise, your children would be unclean, whereas instead they are holy.

1 Corinthians 7:2

But, because of fornication, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

2 Corinthians 6:18

Then I will accept you. And I will be a Father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty."

Ephesians 6:4

And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but educate them with the discipline and correction of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 7:4

For she will seduce your son, so that he will not follow me, and so that he will instead serve foreign gods. And the fury of the Lord will be enraged, and he will quickly destroy you.

Titus 1:6

if such a man is without offense, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of self-indulgence, nor of insubordination.

Ruth 4:12

And may your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the offspring which the Lord will give to you from this young woman."

1 Samuel 2:20

And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife. And he said to him, "May the Lord repay to you offspring from this woman, on behalf of the loan that you offered to the Lord." And they went away to their own place.