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

And God created man after his likeness, after the likeness of God created he him; male and female created he them.

And Adam gave names unto all manner cattle, and unto the fowls of the air, and unto all manner beasts of the field. But there was no help found unto Adam to bear him company.

He answered, and said unto them, "Have ye not read, how that he which made man at the beginning, made them man and woman?

But at the first creation, God made them man and woman, saying,

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

The spirit

Then the LORD God shope man, even of the mold of the earth, and breathed into his face the breath of life. So man was made a living soul.

My lips shall talk of no vanity, and my tongue shall speak no deceit,

Or dust be turned again unto earth from whence it came, and or the spirit return unto God, which gave it.

And when he had said that, he breathed on them, and said unto them, "Receive the holy ghost.

That he

that I may make thee swear by the LORD that is God of heaven and God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son, of the daughters of the Canaanites, among which I dwell.

When Esau was forty years old, he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri, an Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon, an Hittite also,

And Rebekah spake to Isaac, "I am weary of my life, for fear of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such one as these are, or of the daughters of the land, what lust should I have to live?"

but arise and get thee to Mesopotamia, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father: and there take thee a wife of the daughters of Laban, thy mother's brother.

For they will make your sons depart from me and serve strange gods, and then will the wrath of the LORD wax hot upon you and destroy you shortly.

And there resorted unto me all such as feared the word of the LORD God of Israel, because of the great transgression. And I sat mourning until the evening sacrifice.

and their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of the one people and the other people.

and among all green trees. Whereas I planted thee out of noble grapes and good roots. How art thou turned then into a bitter, unfruitful, and strange grape?

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife: and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband. Or else were your children unclean: but now are they pure.

And ye fathers, move not your children to wrath: but bring them up with the nurture and information of the Lord.

and one that ruleth his own house honestly, having children under obedience, with all honesty.

If any be faultless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, which are not slandered of riot, neither are disobedient.

Godly seed

the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair, and took unto them wives, which they best liked among them all.

And though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, which can neither be measured nor told: yet in the place where it is said unto them, 'Ye be not my people': even there shall it be thus reported of them, 'They be the children of the living God.'

Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant, which God hath made unto our fathers, saying to Abraham, 'Even in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.'

and will be a father unto you, and ye shall be unto me sons and daughters," saith the Lord almighty.

Take

And yet ye say, 'Wherefore?' Even because that whereas the LORD made a covenant betwixt thee and the wife of thy youth, thou hast despised her: Yet is she thine own companion and married wife.

Keep thine heart with all diligence, for thereupon hangeth life.

that thou lust not after her beauty in thine heart, and lest thou be taken with her fair looks.

Let not thine heart wander in her ways, and be thou not deceived in her paths.

But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a wife lusting after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, breaking of wedlock, whoredom, theft, false witness-bearing, blasphemy.

But every man is tempted, drawn away, and enticed of his own concupiscence.