Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
And did not one make them? and the remnant of the Spirit was his. And wherefore the one? He sought a seed of God. Take heed then to your spirit, and let none deal unfaithfully against the wife of his youth,
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
Didn’t the one God make us with a remnant of His life-breath? And what does the One seek?
International Standard Version
Did he not make them one? And the vestige of the spirit remains in him. And why did he make them one? He was seeking godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and don't be unfaithful to the wife of your youth.
A Conservative Version
And did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? And why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
American Standard Version
And did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? And wherefore one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
Amplified
But not one has done so who has a remnant of the Spirit. And what did that one do while seeking a godly offspring? Take heed then to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of your youth.
Bible in Basic English
... So give thought to your spirit, and let no one be false to the wife of his early years.
Julia Smith Translation
And did he not make one? And the remainder of the spirit to him. And why one? Seeking a seed of God. And ye matched in your spirit, and he shall not deal faithlessly against the wife of thy youth.
King James 2000
And did not he make them one? Yet had he the remnant of the spirit. And why one? That he might seek a godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
Lexham Expanded Bible
{Did not one God make them?} But a remnant of [the] spirit is his. And what does the one [God] desire? An offspring of God. {You must be attentive to} your spirit, and you must not be unfaithful to the wife of your youth.
Modern King James verseion
And did He not make you one? Yet the vestige of the Spirit is in him. And what of the one? He was seeking a godly seed. Then guard your spirit, and do not act treacherously with the wife of your youth.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
So did not the one, and yet had he an excellent spirit. What did then the one? He sought the seed promised of God. Therefore look well to your spirit, and let no man despise the wife of his youth.
NET Bible
No one who has even a small portion of the Spirit in him does this. What did our ancestor do when seeking a child from God? Be attentive, then, to your own spirit, for one should not be disloyal to the wife he took in his youth.
New Heart English Bible
Did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
The Emphasized Bible
Now was it not, One, who made you who had, the residue of the spirit? What, then, of that One? He was seeking a godly seed. Therefore should ye take heed to your spirit, and, with the wife of thy youth, do not thou deal treacherously.
Webster
And did he not make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And why 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.
World English Bible
Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
Youngs Literal Translation
And He did not make one only, And He hath the remnant of the Spirit. And what is the one alone! He is seeking a godly seed. And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And with the wife of thy youth, None doth deal treacherously.
Themes
Divorce » Jews condemned for love of
Foes of the home » Polygamy » Forbidden
Husbands' » Duty of, to wives » To be faithful to them
Topics
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Malachi 2:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
Yahweh Hates Faithlessness
14 Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been a witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt unfaithfully: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. 15 And did not one make them? and the remnant of the Spirit was his. And wherefore the one? He sought a seed of God. Take heed then to your spirit, and let none deal unfaithfully against the wife of his youth, 16 (for I hate putting away, saith Jehovah the God of Israel;) and he covereth with violence his garment, saith Jehovah of hosts: take heed then to your spirit, that ye deal not unfaithfully.
Names
Cross References
Matthew 19:4-6
But he answering said to them, Have ye not read that he who made them, from the beginning made them male and female,
1 Corinthians 7:14
For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother; since otherwise indeed your children are unclean, but now they are holy.
Genesis 1:27
And God created Man in his image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Genesis 2:7
And Jehovah Elohim formed Man, dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and Man became a living soul.
Genesis 6:2
that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair, and took themselves wives of all that they chose.
Genesis 2:20-24
And Man gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the heavens, and to every beast of the field; but as for Adam, he found no helpmate, his like.
Genesis 24:3-7
and I will make thee swear by Jehovah, the God of the heavens and the God of the earth, that thou take not a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am dwelling;
Genesis 24:44
and she shall say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels that she should be the woman whom Jehovah hath appointed for my master's son.
Genesis 26:34-35
And Esau was forty years old, when he took as wives Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basmath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
Genesis 27:46
And Rebecca said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good should my life do me?
Genesis 28:2-4
Arise, go to Padan-Aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father, and take a wife thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.
Deuteronomy 7:4
for he will turn away thy son from following me, and they will serve other gods, and the anger of Jehovah will be kindled against you, and he will destroy thee quickly.
Ezra 9:4
Then were assembled to me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the unfaithfulness of those that had been carried away; and I sat overwhelmed until the evening oblation.
Nehemiah 13:24
And their children spoke half in the language of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people.
Job 27:3
All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of +God is in my nostrils,
Proverbs 4:23
Keep thy heart more than anything that is guarded; for out of it are the issues of life.
Proverbs 6:25
Lust not after her beauty in thy heart, neither let her take thee with her eyelids;
Proverbs 7:25
Let not thy heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths:
Ecclesiastes 12:7
and the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit return unto God who gave it.
Jeremiah 2:21
And I, I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed; how then art thou turned into the degenerate shoots of a strange vine unto me?
Hosea 1:10
Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea which cannot be measured or numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, it shall be said unto them, Sons of the living God.
Malachi 2:14
Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been a witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt unfaithfully: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
Matthew 5:28-29
But I say unto you, that every one who looks upon a woman to lust after her has 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;
Mark 10:6-8
but from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
John 20:22
And having said this, he breathed into them, and says to them, Receive the Holy Spirit:
Acts 3:25
Ye are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God appointed to our fathers, saying to Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
1 Corinthians 7:2
but on account of fornications, let each have his own wife, and each woman have her own husband.
2 Corinthians 6:18
and I will be to you for a Father, and ye shall be to me for sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
Ephesians 6:4
And ye fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.
1 Timothy 3:4-5
conducting his own house well, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
1 Timothy 3:11-12
The women in like manner grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
Titus 1:6
if any one be free from all charge against him, husband of one wife, having believing children not accused of excess or unruly.
James 1:14-15
But every one is tempted, drawn away, and enticed by his own lust;