Malachi 2:16

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

For I hate divorce,* says the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, *and him who covers his garment with violence!* says the LORD of Armies. *Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don't deal treacherously.

Cross References

Psalm 73:6

Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.

Proverbs 28:13

He who conceals his sins doesn't prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

Proverbs 5:20

For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?

Isaiah 28:20

For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket is too narrow to wrap oneself in.

Isaiah 50:1

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

Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

1 Corinthians 7:10

But to the married I command--not I, but the Lord--that the wife not leave her husband