Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
Thy companion
Bible References
Wherefore
Malachi 1:6
"A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says the LORD of hosts to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, 'How have we despised your name?'
Malachi 3:8
Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me. But you say, 'How have we robbed you?' In tithes and offerings.
Proverbs 30:20
"So is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth, and says, 'I have done nothing wrong.'
Isaiah 58:3
'Why have we fasted,' say they, 'and you do not see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge?' "Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and exact all your labors.
Jeremiah 8:12
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No. They were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among those who fall; in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, says the LORD.
The lord
Malachi 3:5
I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and do not fear me," says the LORD of hosts.
Genesis 31:50
If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you."
Judges 11:10
The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "The LORD shall be witness between us; surely according to your word so will we do."
1 Samuel 12:5
He said to them, "The LORD is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand." They said, "He is witness."
Jeremiah 42:5
Then they said to Jeremiah, "The LORD be a true and faithful witness among us, if we do not do according to all the word with which the LORD your God shall send you to us.
Micah 1:2
Hear, you peoples, all of you. Listen, O earth, and all that is therein: and let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.
The wife
Malachi 2:15
Did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
Proverbs 5:18
Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
Ecclesiastes 9:9
Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.
Isaiah 54:6
For the LORD has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off," says your God.
Thy companion
Genesis 2:18
The LORD God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."
Proverbs 2:17
who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God:
Song of Songs 1:15
Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are doves.