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

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

And the man gave names to every beast, and to the fowl of the heavens, and to every animal of the field; but for the man there was not found a help meet for him.

And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he who made them at the beginning made them male and female?

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

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

The spirit

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

that all the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,

and the dust returns to the earth as it was before and the spirit returns unto God who gave it.

And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said unto them, Receive ye the Holy Spirit;

That he

and I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of the heavens and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell;

And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri, the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon, the Hittite:

And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these who are of the daughters of this land, why should I want to live?

Arise, go to Padanaram to the house of Bethuel, thy mother's father, and take thee a wife from there of the daughters of Laban, thy mother's brother.

For they will turn away thy son from following me that they may serve other gods; and the anger of the LORD will be kindled upon you and destroy thee suddenly.

Then each one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel because of the transgression of those that had been carried away were assembled unto me; and I sat astonied until the evening sacrifice.

and their sons spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and according to the language of each people; for they could not speak in the Jews' language.

Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, a seed of Truth, all of her; how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, but bring them up in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.

one that rules well his own house, having his children in subjection with all integrity;

He who is blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children who can not be accused of dissoluteness, nor insubordinate.

Godly seed

that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair, and they took for themselves wives of all whom they chose.

With all this, the number of the sons of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.

Ye are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

Take

Yet ye say, Why? Because the LORD has been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously; yet she is thy companion and the wife of thy covenant.

Above all else, guard thy heart; for out of it flows the issues of life.

Lust not after her beauty in thine heart, neither let her take thee with her eyes.

Let not thine heart decline to her ways; do not go astray in her paths.

but I say unto you, That whosoever looks on a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

But each one is tempted, when they are drawn away of their own lust and enticed.