Malachi 2:14

God's Word

But you ask, “Why ⌞aren’t our offerings accepted⌟?” It is because the Lord is a witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been unfaithful. Yet, she is your companion, the wife of your marriage vows.

Cross References

Genesis 2:18

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is right for him.”

Genesis 31:50

If you mistreat my daughters or marry other women behind my back, remember that God stands as a witness between you and me.”

Proverbs 2:17

who leaves ⌞her husband,⌟ the closest friend of her youth, and forgets her marriage vows to her God.

Proverbs 30:20

This is the way of a woman who commits adultery: She eats, wipes her mouth, and says, “I haven’t done anything wrong!”

Proverbs 5:20

Why should you, my son, be intoxicated with an adulterous woman and fondle a loose woman’s breast?

Ecclesiastes 9:9

Enjoy life with your wife, whom you love, during all your brief, pointless life. God has given you your pointless life under the sun. This is your lot ⌞in life⌟ and what you get for the hard work that you do under the sun.

Song of Solomon 1:15

Look at you! You are beautiful, my true love! Look at you! You are so beautiful! Your eyes are like doves!

Isaiah 54:6

“The Lord has called you as if you were a wife who was abandoned and in grief, a wife who married young and was rejected,” says your God.

Isaiah 58:3

Why have we fasted if you are not aware of it? Why have we inflicted pain on ourselves if you don’t pay attention? Don’t you see that on the days you fast, you do what you want to do? You mistreat all your workers.

Jeremiah 29:23

They have done shameful things in Israel. They committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives and spoke lies in my name. I didn’t command them to do this. I know what they have done. I’m a witness, declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 42:5

They said to Jeremiah, “May the Lord be a true and faithful witness against us if we don’t do exactly what the Lord your God tells us to do.

Jeremiah 8:12

Are they ashamed that they do disgusting things? No, they’re not ashamed. They don’t even know how to blush. So they will die with those who die. They will be brought down when I punish them,’ ” says the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:2

I wish I had a place to stay in the desert. I would abandon my people and go away from them. They are all adulterers, a mob of traitors.

Ezekiel 16:8

“ ‘I went by you again and looked at you. You were old enough to make love to. So I spread my robe over you, and covered your naked body. I promised to love you, and I exchanged marriage vows with you. You became mine, declares the Almighty Lord.

Micah 1:2

Listen, all you people! Pay attention, earth and all who are on it. The Almighty Lord will be a witness against you. The Lord will be a witness from his holy temple.

Malachi 2:15

Didn’t ⌞God⌟ make you one? Your flesh and spirit belong to him. And what does the same ⌞God⌟ look for but godly descendants? So be careful not to be unfaithful to the wife of your youth.

Malachi 3:5

“I will come to judge you. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers, lying witnesses, and those who cheat workers out of their wages and oppress widows and orphans. I will also testify against those who deprive foreigners of their rights. None of them fear me,” says the Lord of Armies.

Malachi 3:8

“Can a person cheat God? Yet, you are cheating me! “But you ask, ‘How are we cheating you?’ “When ⌞you don’t bring⌟ a tenth of your income and other contributions.

Judges 11:10

Gilead’s leaders said to Jephthah, “The Lord is a witness between us. We will certainly do what you say.”

1 Samuel 12:5

Samuel told them, “The Lord is a witness to what you’ve said, and his anointed king is a witness today that you’ve found nothing in my hands.” “He is a witness,” they answered.