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.

The spirit

Bible References

Did

Matthew 19:4
And He, answering, said, "Did you not read that He Who made them from the beginning made them 'male and female,'
Mark 10:6
But from the beginning of the creation, 'Male and female made He them.'
1 Corinthians 7:2
but, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

The spirit

John 20:22
And, having said this, He breathed upon them, and said to them, "Receive ye the Holy Spirit.

That he

1 Corinthians 7:14
For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified in the brother; else your children are unclean; but as it is they are holy.
Ephesians 6:4
And, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.
1 Timothy 3:4
presiding well over his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity
Titus 1:6
if anyone is blameless, a husband of one wife, having believing children not in accusation of rioting, or unruly.

Godly seed

Acts 3:25
Ye are the sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, 'And in your Seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.'
2 Corinthians 6:18
and I will be to you a Father, and ye shall be My sons and daughters." saith the Lord Almighty.

Take

Matthew 5:28
but I say to you, that every one who looks upon a woman, to lust after her, already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false-witnessings, blasphemies:
James 1:14
But each one is tempted, when by his own desire he is drawn away and enticed.