God created humankind in His image, in the image of God He created him, male and female He created them.
Malachi 2:15 - Tree of Life Version Did the One not make her with a remnant of Ruach? Then what is the One seeking? Offspring of God! So protect your spirit— do not betray the wife of your youth. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And did not God make [you and your wife] one [flesh]? Did not One make you and preserve your spirit alive? And why [did God make you two] one? Because He sought a godly offspring [from your union]. Therefore take heed to yourselves, and let no one deal treacherously and be faithless to the wife of his youth. American Standard Version (1901) And did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? And wherefore one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. Common English Bible Didn’t he make her the one and the remnant of his spirit? What is the one? The one seeking godly offspring. You should guard your own spirit. Don’t cheat on the wife of your youth 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. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Did not one make her, and she is the residue of his spirit? And what doth one seek, but the seed of God? Keep then your spirit, and despise not the wife of thy youth. |
God created humankind in His image, in the image of God He created him, male and female He created them.
Then Adonai Elohim formed the man out of the dust from the ground and He breathed into his nostrils a breath of life—so the man became a living being.
and she’ll say to me, “You drink, and I’ll also draw water for your camels”—let her be the woman whom Adonai appoints for my master’s son!’
Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I’m disgusted with my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth like these women, from the daughters of the land what is life to me?”
then the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were good and they took for themselves wives, any they chose.
Everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel gathered themselves around me because of the unfaithful act of the exiles. Devastated, I sat there until the evening offering.
Half of their children spoke the dialect of Ashdod or the language of other peoples, but none of them understood the language of Judah.
as long as my breath is still in me, the Ruach of God in my nostrils,
who forsakes the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.
Do not lust in your heart after her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyelids.
Then the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Yet I had planted you as a choice vine from completely faithful seed. How then did you become to Me a wandering wild vine?
“The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, who commits adultery with his friend’s wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress should surely be put to death.
Yet you say, “Why?” Because Adonai bears witness between you and the wife of your youth, whom you have treated deceitfully. Yet she had been your companion and your wife by covenant.
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, and slander.
And after He said this, He breathed on them. And He said to them, “Receive the Ruach ha-Kodesh!
You are the sons of the prophets and also of the covenant that God cut with your fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘In your seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.’
For the unbelieving husband is made holy through the wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy through her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.
But because of much immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
I will be a father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, says Adonai-Tzva’ot.”
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
For he will turn your son away from following Me to serve other gods. Then the anger of Adonai will be kindled against you, and He will swiftly destroy you.
if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children of faith with no charge of wild living or rebellion.
May your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, through the seed that Adonai will give you by this young woman.”
Then Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife and say, “May Adonai give you offspring from this woman instead of the one she requested from Adonai.” Then they would return to their place.