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

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

but on account of the commonness of fornication, let every man have his own wife, and every woman her own husband.

The spirit

And having said this, he breathed on them, and saith to them, Receive the Holy Spirit.

That he

For the unbelieving husband hath been made holy by his wife, and the unbelieving wife hath been made holy by the brother; otherwise were your children unclean, but, as it is, they are holy.

And, ye fathers, stir not up the anger of your children, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

presiding well over his own house, having his children in subjection with all propriety;

if any one is without reproach, the husband of one wife, having believing children, that are not accused of dissoluteness, or unruly.

Godly seed

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

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

Take

But I say to you, that whoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimony, blasphemies.

But each one is tempted when by his own lust he is led away and enticed;