Malachi 2:16

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Summary

For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

The lord

Covereth

Bible References

The lord

When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her ou

Thus says LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, with which I have put her away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities ye were sold, and for your transgressions your moth

And it was said, Whoever may divorce his wife, let him give her a divorce certificate.

And Pharisees came to him, trying him, and saying to him, Is it permitted for a man to divorce his wife for every cause?

And the Pharisees having approached, they demanded of him if it is permitted for a man to divorce a wife, testing him.

Every man who divorces his wife and marries another, commits adultery, and every man who marries her who has been divorced from a husband commits adultery.

Covereth

He who covers his transgressions shall not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them shall obtain mercy.

For the bed is shorter than what a man can stretch himself on it, and the covering narrower than what he can wrap himself in it.

Their webs shall not become garments, nor shall they cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

The devout man has perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men. They all lay in wait for blood. They hunt every man his brother with a net.