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

Matthew 19:4

Mark 10:6

1 Corinthians 7:2

The spirit

John 20:22

That he

Godly seed

Acts 3:25

2 Corinthians 6:18

Take

Matthew 5:28

Matthew 15:19

James 1:14

Bible References

Did

and he answered them, have ye not read, that when the creator, at the beginning, made male and female,

for in the beginning of the world God formed them male and female.

I answer, with regard to the licentious, it is best for a man, to have his wife; and for a woman to have her husband.

The spirit

and when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, "receive ye the holy spirit.

That he

for the unbelieving husband is christianiz'd by the believing wife, and the unbelieving wife is christianiz'd by the believing husband: else were your children heathens: whereas they are christians.

and you fathers don't exasperate your children: but instruct them in the discipline and institution of the Lord.

obliging his children to behave with decorum.

to chuse such as are without reproach, married to but one wife, whose children are obedient, not accused of debauchery, nor unruly.

Godly seed

ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, when he said to Abraham, "all the families of the earth shall be blessed in your posterity."

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

Take

but I tell you, that whosoever looks on a woman with impure desires is already guilty of approving the fact.

out of the heart proceed evil designs, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimony, slanders.

a man is instigated, and drawn into the snare by his own vicious passions, which once indulg'd, are productive of sin,