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 humankind in his image, in the likeness of God he created him, male and female he created them.

And the man {gave names} to every domesticated animal and to the birds of heaven and to all the wild animals. But for [the] man there was not found a helper {as his counterpart}.

And he answered [and] said, "Have you not read that the one who created [them] from the beginning made them male and female

But from the beginning of creation 'he made them male and female.

But because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife and let each woman have her own husband.

The spirit

when Yahweh God formed the man [of] dust from the ground, and he blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

For {as long as} my breath [is] in me, and the spirit of God [is] in my nose,

And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath returns 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

that I may make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose midst I am dwelling,

And [when] Esau was forty years old he took as wife Judith, daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, daughter of Elon the Hittite.

Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "I loathe my life because of the Hittite women. If Jacob takes a wife from Hittite women like these, from the {native women}, {what am I living for}?"

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

For their sons and daughters will cause your son to turn away {from following me}, and [so] they will serve other gods, and {the anger of Yahweh would be kindled} against you, and he would quickly destroy you.

Then all who trembled at the words of the God of Israel because of the sin of the returned exiles were gathered around me and I sat appalled until the evening offering.

Half of their children spoke Ashdodite and could not speak Judean, but [only] the tongues of other nations.

Yet I planted you [as] a choice vine, all of it a seed of trustworthiness. How then have you altered before me [into something that is] degenerate, the foreign vine?

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the brother, since otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

And fathers, do not make your children angry, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

managing his own household well, having children in submission with all dignity

If anyone is blameless, [the] husband of one wife, having faithful children, not {accused of dissipation} or rebellious.

Godly seed

Then the sons of God saw the daughters of humankind, that they [were] beautiful. And they took for themselves wives from all that they chose.

The number of the children of Israel will be like the sand of the sea that cannot be measured or counted; and in the place where it is said to them, "You are not my people," it will be said to them, "Children of [the] living God."

You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God ordained with your fathers, saying to Abraham, 'And in your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed.'

and I will be a father to you, and you will be sons and daughters to me," says the all-powerful Lord.

Take

But you ask, "{For what reason}?" Because Yahweh stands as a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have been unfaithful, even though she [is] your marriage partner and {your wife by covenant}.

With all vigilance, keep your heart, for from it [comes] the source of life.

Do not desire her beauty in your heart; may she not capture you with her eyelashes.

May your heart not turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her path.

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

For from the heart come evil plans, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, abusive speech.

But each one is tempted [when he] is dragged away and enticed by his own desires.