Malachi 2:15

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Did

1 Corinthians 7:2

The spirit

That he

Godly seed

Take

James 1:14

Bible References

Did

God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

The man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every beast of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him.

And He answered and said, “Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female,

But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female.

But because of immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband.

The spirit

Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

For as long as life is in me,
And the

breath of God is in my nostrils,

then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the

spirit will return to God who gave it.

And when He had said this, He breathed on them and *said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.

That he

and I will make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live,

When Esau was forty years old he married Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite;

Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am tired of living because of the daughters of Heth; if Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth, like these, from the daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?”

Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father; and from there take to yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban your mother’s brother.

For they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods; then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you and He will quickly destroy you.

Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel on account of the unfaithfulness of the exiles gathered to me, and I sat appalled until the evening offering.

As for their children, half spoke in the language of Ashdod, and none of them was able to speak the language of Judah, but the language of his own people.

“Yet I planted you a choice vine,
A completely faithful seed.
How then have you turned yourself before Me
Into the degenerate shoots of a foreign vine?

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband; for otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

He must be one who manages his own household well, keeping his children under control with all dignity

namely, if any man is above reproach, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, not accused of dissipation or rebellion.

Godly seed

that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.

Yet the number of the sons of Israel

Will be like the sand of the sea,
Which cannot be measured or numbered;
And in the place
Where it is said to them,
“You are not My people,”
It will be said to them,
“You are the sons of the living God.”

It is you who are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’

“And I will be a father to you,
And you shall be sons and daughters to Me,”
Says the Lord Almighty.

Take

Yet you say, ‘For what reason?’ Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.

Watch over your heart with all diligence,
For from it flow the springs of life.

Do not desire her beauty in your heart,

Nor let her capture you with her eyelids.

Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways,
Do not stray into her paths.

but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, slanders.

But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust.