Malachi 2:16

New King James Version

“For the Lord God of Israel says That He hates divorce, For it covers one’s garment with violence,” Says the Lord of hosts. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, That you do not deal treacherously.”

Cross References

Psalm 73:6

Therefore pride serves as their necklace; Violence covers them like a garment.

Proverbs 28:13

He who covers his sins will not prosper, But whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.

Proverbs 5:20

For why should you, my son, be enraptured by an immoral woman, And be embraced in the arms of a seductress?

Isaiah 28:20

For the bed is too short to stretch out on, And the covering so narrow that one cannot wrap himself in it.

Isaiah 50:1

Thus says the Lord: “Where is the certificate of your mother’s divorce, Whom I have put away? Or which of My creditors is it to whom I have sold you? For your iniquities you have sold yourselves, And for your transgressions your mother has been put away.

Isaiah 59:6

Their webs will not become garments, Nor will they cover themselves with their works; Their works are works of iniquity, And the act of violence is in their hands.

Luke 16:18

“Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced from her husband commits adultery.

1 Corinthians 7:10

Now to the married I command, yet not I but the Lord: A wife is not to depart from her husband.