Malachi 2:15

Yahweh Hates Faithlessness

¹⁴ Yet you ask, “For what reason?” Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth. You have acted treacherously against her, though she was your marriage partner and your wife by covenant. ¹⁵ 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. ¹⁶ “If he hates and divorces his wife,” says the Lord God of Israel, “he covers his garment with injustice,” says the Lord of Hosts. Therefore, watch yourselves carefully, and do not act treacherously.

Deal Treacherously

Flesh and Spirit

From God

It is I

Take Heed

Deal Treacherously

No

Matthew 19:4-6

“Haven’t you read,” He replied, “that He who created them in the beginning made them male and female,”

1 Corinthians 7:14

For the unbelieving husband is set apart for God by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is set apart for God by the husband. Otherwise your children would be corrupt, but now they are set apart for God.

Genesis 1:27

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

Genesis 2:7

Then the Lord God formed the man out of the dust from the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

Genesis 6:2

the sons of God saw that the daughters of mankind were beautiful, and they took any they chose as wives for themselves.

Genesis 2:20-24

The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds of the sky, and to every wild animal; but for the man no helper was found as his complement.

Genesis 24:3-7

and I will have you swear by the Lord, God of heaven and God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I live,

Genesis 24:44

and who responds to me, ‘Drink, and I’ll draw water for your camels also’—let her be the woman the Lord has appointed for my master’s son.

Genesis 26:34-35

When Esau was 40 years old, he took as his wives Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.

Genesis 27:46

So Rebekah said to Isaac, “I’m sick of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob marries a Hittite woman like one of them, what good is my life?”

Genesis 28:2-4

Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father. Marry one of the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.

Deuteronomy 7:4

because they will turn your sons away from Me to worship other gods. Then the Lord’s anger will burn against you, and He will swiftly destroy you.

Ezra 9:4

Everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel gathered around me, because of the unfaithfulness of the exiles, while I sat devastated until the evening offering.

Nehemiah 13:24

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

Job 27:3

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

Proverbs 4:23

Guard your heart above all else,
for it is the source of life.

Proverbs 6:25

Don’t lust in your heart for her beauty
or let her captivate you with her eyelashes.

Proverbs 7:25

Don’t let your heart turn aside to her ways;
don’t stray onto her paths.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to the earth as it once was,
and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Jeremiah 2:21

I planted you, a choice vine
from the very best seed.
How then could you turn into
a degenerate, foreign vine?

Hosea 1:10

Yet the number of the Israelites
will be like the sand of the sea,
which cannot be measured or counted.
And in the place where they were told:
You are not My people,
they will be called: Sons of the living God.

Malachi 2:14

Yet you ask, “For what reason?” Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth. You have acted treacherously against her, though she was your marriage partner and your wife by covenant.

Matthew 5:28-29

But I tell you, everyone who looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Matthew 15:19

For from the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.

Mark 10:6-8

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

John 20:22

After saying this, He breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.

Acts 3:25

You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your ancestors, saying to Abraham, And all the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring.

1 Corinthians 7:2

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

2 Corinthians 6:18

I will be a Father to you,
and you will be sons and daughters to Me,
says the Lord Almighty.

Ephesians 6:4

Fathers, don’t stir up anger in your children, but bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.

1 Timothy 3:4-5

one who manages his own household competently, having his children under control with all dignity.

1 Timothy 3:11-12

Wives, too, must be worthy of respect, not slanderers, self-controlled, faithful in everything.

Titus 1:6

one who is blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of wildness or rebellion.

James 1:14-15

But each person is tempted when he is drawn away and enticed by his own evil desires.