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

God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them.

The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper suitable for him.

He answered, "Haven't you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,

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

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

The spirit

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

(For the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);

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

When he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit!

That he

I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.

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

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, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?"

Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.

For he will turn away your son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so the anger of Yahweh would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.

Then were assembled to me everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the trespass of them of the captivity; and I sat confounded until the evening offering.

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

Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?

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

You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.

Godly seed

that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.

Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can't be measured nor numbered; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' they will be called 'sons of the living God.'

You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, 'In your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.'

I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,' says the Lord Almighty."

Take

Yet you say, 'Why?' Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

Don't lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

Don't let your heart turn to her ways. Don't go astray in her paths,

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.