Malachi 2:15

Has not the LORD made them one, having a portion of the Spirit? And why one? Because He seeks godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith with the wife of your youth.

Cross References (34)

  • Matthew 19:4–6 (14)

    Jesus answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’

  • Malachi 2:14 (13)

    Yet you ask, “Why?” It is because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you h

  • Mark 10:6–8 (13)

    However, from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’

  • Genesis 2:20–24 (9)

    The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam no suita

  • Genesis 1:27 (9)

    So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

  • 1 Timothy 3:11–12 (6)

    In the same way, the women must be dignified, not slanderers, but temperate and faithful in all things.

  • 1 Corinthians 7:14 (5)

    For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his believing wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her

  • 2 Corinthians 6:18 (5)

    And: “I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”

  • Job 27:3 (4)

    as long as my breath is still within me and the breath of God remains in my nostrils,

  • Titus 1:6 (4)

    An elder must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, having children who are believers and who are not open to accus

  • Hosea 1:10 (4)

    Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And it will happ

  • 1 Timothy 3:4–5 (4)

    An overseer must manage his own household well and keep his children under control, with complete dignity.

  • Jeremiah 2:21 (3)

    I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild

  • Matthew 5:28–29 (3)

    But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

  • Deuteronomy 7:4 (3)

    because they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD will burn agains

  • Genesis 6:2 (3)

    the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they took as wives whomever they chose.

  • Proverbs 6:25 (3)

    Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.

  • Genesis 24:3–7 (3)

    and I will have you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son

  • James 1:14–15 (3)

    But each one is tempted when by his own evil desires he is lured away and enticed.

  • Ephesians 6:4 (3)

    Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

  • Proverbs 7:25 (3)

    Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths.

  • Genesis 28:2–4 (3)

    “Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel, and take a wife from among the daughters of La

  • Matthew 15:19 (3)

    For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander.

  • Genesis 27:46 (2)

    Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a Hittite wife from am

  • Genesis 2:7 (2)

    Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man

  • Ecclesiastes 12:7 (2)

    before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

  • Proverbs 4:23 (2)

    Guard your heart with all diligence, for from it flow springs of life.

  • Acts 3:25 (2)

    And you are sons of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers when He said to Abraham, ‘Through your o

  • 1 Corinthians 7:2 (2)

    But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.

  • Ezra 9:4 (2)

    Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel gathered around me because of the unfaithfulness of the exi

  • Nehemiah 13:24 (2)

    Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or of the other peoples, but could not speak the language of Judah.

  • John 20:22 (2)

    When He had said this, He breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.

  • Genesis 24:44 (2)

    and she replies, ‘Drink, and I will draw water for your camels as well,’ may she be the woman the LORD has appointed for

  • Genesis 26:34–35 (2)

    When Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath daughter of Elon t