Parallel Verses
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.
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,
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
Interlinear
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Malachi 2:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
Yahweh Hates Faithlessness
14
You ask: Why do you not accept our offerings? It is because Jehovah is a witness between you and the wife of your youth. The one to whom you have been unfaithful! She is your companion, the wife of your marriage vows.
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Cross References
Matthew 19:4-6
He answered: Have you not read, that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female?
1 Corinthians 7:14
For the wife sanctifies the unbelieving husband, and the husband sanctifies the unbelieving wife. Otherwise your children would be unclean. But now they are holy.
Genesis 1:27
God created man in his own image. In the image of God he created him. He created male and female.
Genesis 2:7
Jehovah God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. The man became a living being.
Genesis 6:2
The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful. They married any of them they chose.
Genesis 2:20-24
So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts of the field. But no suitable helper was found for Adam.
Genesis 24:3-7
I want you to swear by Jehovah God of heaven and earth that you will not get my son a wife from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living.
Genesis 24:44
And she will say to me, You drink, and I will draw for your camels also, let her be the woman whom Jehovah has appointed for my master's son.'
Genesis 26:34-35
When Esau was forty he married Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
Genesis 27:46
Rebekah said to Isaac: I cannot stand Hittite women! I would rather die than see Jacob marry one of them.
Genesis 28:2-4
Go to Mesopotamia instead, to the home of your grandfather Bethuel. Marry one of the young women there, one of your uncle Laban's daughters.
Deuteronomy 7:4
They will lead your young people away from me to serve other gods. So the anger of Jehovah will be kindled against you and will destroy you suddenly.
Ezra 9:4
Then everyone who respected the word of the God of Israel were overcome with grief because of the sin of those who came back. They gathered with me until the evening offering.
Nehemiah 13:24
Their children were talking half in the language of Ashdod; they had no knowledge of the Jews' language, but made use of the language of the two peoples.
Job 27:3
As long as I have life within me, the breath of God in my nostrils,
Proverbs 4:23
Guard your heart with all diligence for out of it come the source of life.
Proverbs 6:25
Do not lust after her beauty in your heart. Do not let her attract you with her eyelids.
Proverbs 7:25
Do not let your heart go after her ways. Do not stray in her paths.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
Then the dust will return to the earth as it was. The spirit (life) will return to God who gave it.
Jeremiah 2:21
I planted you like a choice grapevine from the very best seed. Now you have turned against me and have become a wild vine.
Hosea 1:10
Yet the number of the children of Israel will be like the grains of the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. It will be said: You are the sons of the living God in the place where it was said you are not my people!
Malachi 2:14
You ask: Why do you not accept our offerings? It is because Jehovah is a witness between you and the wife of your youth. The one to whom you have been unfaithful! She is your companion, the wife of your marriage vows.
Matthew 5:28-29
However, I tell you that whoever looks at a woman with lustful thoughts commits adultery with her in his heart.
Matthew 15:19
Evil thoughts come from the heart! Thoughts about murder, adultery, fornication, theft, lying, and slander come from the heart!
Mark 10:6-8
God made male and female from the beginning of creation.
John 20:22
After he said this he breathed on them and said: Receive Holy Spirit.
Acts 3:25
You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant that God made with our fathers. He said to Abraham: 'All the families of the earth will be blessed in your seed.'
1 Corinthians 7:2
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
2 Corinthians 6:18
I will be a Father to you, and you will be to me sons and daughters, said Jehovah God the Almighty. (Hosea 1:10)
Ephesians 6:4
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of God.
1 Timothy 3:4-5
one who manages well his own house, having his children in subjection with all seriousness;
1 Timothy 3:11-12
Women in like manner must be serious, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.
Titus 1:6
A blameless man will be the husband of one wife. He will have children that believe and who are not accused of violence and disobedience.
James 1:14-15
Each man is tempted when he is drawn away by his evil desire (lust). He is enticed (allured).