Malachi 2:15

New Century Version

God made husbands and wives to become one body and one spirit for his purpose—so they would have children who are true to God. So be careful, and do not break your promise to the wife you married when you were young.

Cross References

Genesis 1:27

So God created human beings in his image. In the image of God he created them. He created them male and female.

Genesis 2:7

Then the Lord God took dust from the ground and formed a man from it. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nose, and the man became a living person.

Genesis 24:44

Then let her say, “Drink this water, and I will also get water for your camels.” By this I will know the Lord has chosen her for my master’s son.’

Genesis 27:46

Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am tired of Hittite women. If Jacob marries one of these Hittite women here in this land, I want to die.”

Genesis 6:2

When the sons of God saw that these girls were beautiful, they married any of them they chose.

Ezra 9:4

Everyone who trembled in fear at the word of the God of Israel gathered around me because of the unfaithfulness of the captives who had returned. I sat there in shock until the evening sacrifice.

Nehemiah 13:24

Half their children were speaking the language of Ashdod or some other place, and they couldn’t speak the language of Judah.

Job 27:3

as long as I am alive and God’s breath of life is in my nose,

Exodus 20:14

“You must not be guilty of adultery.

Proverbs 2:17

She leaves the husband she married when she was young. She ignores the promise she made before God.

Proverbs 4:23

Be careful what you think, because your thoughts run your life.

Proverbs 6:25

Don’t desire her because she is beautiful. Don’t let her capture you by the way she looks at you.

Proverbs 7:25

Don’t let yourself be tricked by such a woman; don’t go where she leads you.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

You will turn back into the dust of the earth again, but your spirit will return to God who gave it.

Jeremiah 2:21

But I planted you as a special vine, as a very good seed. How then did you turn into a wild vine that grows bad fruit?

Hosea 1:10

“But the number of the Israelites will become like the grains of sand of the sea, which no one can measure or count. They were called, ‘You are not my people,’ but later they will be called ‘children of the living God.’

Leviticus 20:10

“ ‘If a man has sexual relations with his neighbor’s wife, both the man and the woman are guilty of adultery and must be put to death.

Malachi 2:14

You ask, “Why?” It is because the Lord sees how you treated the wife you married when you were young. You broke your promise to her, even though she was your partner and you had an agreement with her.

Matthew 15:19

Out of the mind come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual sins, stealing, lying, and speaking evil of others.

John 20:22

After he said this, he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.

Acts 3:25

You are descendants of the prophets. You have received the agreement God made with your ancestors. He said to your father Abraham, ‘Through your descendants all the nations on the earth will be blessed.’

1 Corinthians 7:14

The husband who is not a believer is made holy through his believing wife. And the wife who is not a believer is made holy through her believing husband. If this were not true, your children would not be clean, but now your children are holy.

1 Corinthians 7:2

But because sexual sin is a danger, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband.

2 Corinthians 6:18

“I will be your father, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”

Ephesians 6:4

Fathers, do not make your children angry, but raise them with the training and teaching of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 7:4

If you do, those people will turn your children away from me, to begin serving other gods. Then the Lord will be very angry with you, and he will quickly destroy you.

Titus 1:6

An elder must not be guilty of doing wrong, must have only one wife, and must have believing children. They must not be known as children who are wild and do not cooperate.

Ruth 4:12

As Tamar gave birth to Judah’s son Perez, may the Lord give you many children through Ruth. May your family be great like his.”

1 Samuel 2:20

When Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, he would say, “May the Lord repay you with children through Hannah to take the place of the boy Hannah prayed for and gave back to the Lord.” Then Elkanah and Hannah would go home.