Parallel Verses

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.

New American Standard Bible

But not one has done so who has a remnant of the Spirit. And what did that one do while he was seeking a godly offspring? Take heed then to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of your youth.

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? A godly offspring. So watch yourselves carefully, and do not act treacherously against the wife of your youth.

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.

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,

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
one
אחד 
'echad 
Usage: 432

Yet had he the residue
שׁאר 
Sh@'ar 
Usage: 26

of the spirit
רוּח 
Ruwach 
Usage: 378

אחד 
'echad 
Usage: 432

a godly
אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

זרע 
Zera` 
Usage: 229

שׁמר 
Shamar 
Usage: 468

רוּח 
Ruwach 
Usage: 378

נשׁים אשּׁה 
'ishshah 
Usage: 780

References

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Context Readings

Yahweh Hates Faithlessness

14 And ye said, For what? For that Jehovah testified between thee and between the wife of thy youth, which thou didst deal faithlessly against her, and she thy companion and the wife of thy covenant 15 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. 16 For he hated sending away, says Jehovah God of Israel: and he covered violence with his clothing, said Jehovah of armies: and ye watched in your spirit, and ye shall not deal faithlessly.

Cross References

Matthew 19:4-6

And having answered, he said to them, Have ye not read, that he having made from the beginning, made them male and female,

1 Corinthians 7:14

For the unbelieving husband was consecrated in the wife, and the unbelieving wife was consecrated in the husband: for then are our children unclean; and now are they holy.

Genesis 1:27

And God will form man in his image, in the image of God he formed him; male and female he formed them.

Genesis 2:7

And Jehovah God will form man of the dust from the earth, and will blow into his nostrils the breath of lives, and man shall be for a living soul.

Genesis 6:2

And the sons of God will see the daughters of Adam that they are good, and they will take to them wives of all which they chose.

Genesis 2:20-24

And the man will call the names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the heavens, and to every living thing of the field; but to the man was not found a help as before him.

Genesis 24:3-7

And I will cause thee to swear by Jehovah, God of the heavens, and God of the earth, that thou wilt not take a wife to my son, from the daughters of the Canaanites in the midst of whom I shall dwell.

Genesis 24:44

And she saying to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels: she the woman which Jehovah appointed for my lord's son.

Genesis 26:34-35

And Esau will be the son of forty years, and he will take a wife, Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemah, daughter of Elon the Hittite.

Genesis 27:46

And Rebekah will say to Isaak, I was finished in my life from the face of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob took a wife from the daughters of Heth, as these from the daughters of the land, for what to me life?

Genesis 28:2-4

Rising, go to Padan Aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father, and take to thee from thence a wife from the daughters of Laban, thy mother's brother.

Deuteronomy 7:4

For he will turn away thy son from after me and they served other gods: and the anger of Jehovah kindled against you and he destroyed thee suddenly.

Ezra 9:4

And to me all will assemble, trembling at the word of the God of Israel for the transgression of the exile; and I sat astonished till the sacrifice of the evening.

Nehemiah 13:24

And their sons half speaking the Ashdod dialect, and they not knowing to speak the Judean dialect, and according to the tongue of people and people.

Job 27:3

For all the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God in my nose;

Proverbs 4:23

Guard thy heart with all watching, for from it the goings forth of life.

Proverbs 6:25

Thou shalt not desire her beauty in thy heart, and she shall not take thee with her eyelashes.

Proverbs 7:25

And thy heart shall not deviate to her ways; thou shalt not wander in her beaten paths.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

And the dust shall turn back to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall turn back to God who gave it.

Jeremiah 2:21

And I planted thee a vine of purple grapes, wholly a true seed: and how didst thou turn to me the removings of a strange vine?

Hosea 1:10

And the number of the sons of Israel was as the sand of the sea which shall not be measured and shall not be numbered: and it was in the place which it shall be said to them, Ye are not my people, and it shall be said to them, Ye the sons of the living God.

Malachi 2:14

And ye said, For what? For that Jehovah testified between thee and between the wife of thy youth, which thou didst deal faithlessly against her, and she thy companion and the wife of thy covenant

Matthew 5:28-29

But I say to you, That every one seeing a woman, to eagerly desire her, has already committed adultery with her, in his heart.

Matthew 15:19

For from the heart come forth evil reflections, slaughters, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, defamations:

Mark 10:6-8

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

John 20:22

And having said this, he inspired, and says to them, Receive the Holy Spirit:

Acts 3:25

Ye are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God set with our fathers, saying to Abraham, And in thy seed shall all families of earth be praised.

1 Corinthians 7:2

And, on account of fornication, let each have his own wife, and let each 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, says the Lord Almighty.

Ephesians 6:4

And, fathers, be not angry with your children: but bring them up in the instruction and reminding of the Lord.

1 Timothy 3:4-5

Presiding well over his own house, having the children in subjection with all gravity;

1 Timothy 3:11-12

Wives also grave, not accusers, sober, faithful in all things.

Titus 1:6

If any be irreproachable, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not in accusation of licentiousness, or disorderly.

James 1:14-15

And each is tempted from his own lust, being drawn out, and decoyed.

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