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
Jehovah of Hosts declares to the priests: Children honor their parents and servants honor their masters. I am your father. Why do you not honor me? I am your master. Why do you not respect me? You despise me, and yet you ask: How have we despised you?
Malachi 3:8
I ask you: 'will you rob and defraud God? Of course not, yet you are robbing and defrauding me!' 'How have we robbed and defrauded?' You ask. 'In the matter of tithes and offerings.'
Proverbs 30:20
Such is the way of an adulterous woman. She eats and wipes her mouth, and says: I have done no wickedness.
Isaiah 58:3
Why have we fasted and you do not see? Why have we humbled ourselves and you do not notice? Behold, on the day of your fast you find desire, and mistreat all your workers.'
Jeremiah 8:12
Were they ashamed because of the abomination they had done? They certainly were not ashamed! And they did not know how to blush. For that reason they will fall among those who fall. At the time of their punishment they will be brought down, Says Jehovah.
The lord
Malachi 3:5
I will approach you people for judgment! I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, the adulterers and those acting fraudulently with the wages of the worker, the widow and the fatherless. I will be a speedy witness against those who swear falsely and take advantage of the stranger, and do not show me reverence, said Jehovah of Hosts.
Genesis 31:50
If you mistreat my daughters or marry other women behind my back, remember that God stands as a witness between you and me.
Judges 11:10
They replied: We agree. Jehovah is our witness.
1 Samuel 12:5
Samuel replied: Jehovah and the king he has chosen are witnesses today that you have found me to be completely innocent. They answered: That is right, Jehovah is our witness!
Jeremiah 42:5
Then they said to me: May Jehovah be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not obey all the commandments that Jehovah our God gives you for us.
Micah 1:2
Hear, all you peoples! Listen, O earth, and all who are in it! Let the Sovereign Lord Jehovah (YHWH) be a witness against you, Jehovah from his Holy Temple.
The wife
Malachi 2:15
Did God make you one? Your flesh and spirit belong to him. What does God look for but godly descendants? Do not be unfaithful to the wife of your youth.
Proverbs 5:18
Let your fountain be blessed. Rejoice with the wife of your youth.
Ecclesiastes 9:9
Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of the life he has given you under the sun, all the days of your vanity. That is your share in this life and in your labor under the sun.
Isaiah 54:6
Jehovah will call you back as if you were a wife deserted and distressed in spirit; a wife, who married young, only to be rejected, says your God.
Thy companion
Genesis 2:18
Jehovah God said: It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.
Proverbs 2:17
She is unfaithful to her own husband and forgets her sacred vows to God.
Song of Songs 1:15
(The Beloved) Behold, you are fair, my love. Behold, you are fair. You have doves' eyes.