Malachi 2:15 Cross References
Malachi 2:15
15: Didn't the LORD make you one with your wife? In body and spirit you are his. And what does he want? Godly children from your union. So guard yourself; remain loyal to the wife of your youth.
1 Corinthians 7:14
- For the Christian wife brings holiness to her marriage, and the Christian husband brings holiness to his marriage. Otherwise, your children would not have a godly influence, but now they are set apart for him.
1 Timothy 3:11
- In the same way, their wives must be respected and must not speak evil of others. They must exercise self-control and be faithful in everything they do.
- A deacon must be faithful to his wife, and he must manage his children and household well.
Titus 1:6
- An elder must be well thought of for his good life. He must be faithful to his wife, and his children must be believers who are not wild or rebellious.
1 Timothy 3:4
- He must manage his own family well, with children who respect and obey him.
- For if a man cannot manage his own household, how can he take care of God's church?
Matthew 19:4
- "Haven't you read the Scriptures?" Jesus replied. "They record that from the beginning 'God made them male and female.'
- And he said, 'This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.'
- Since they are no longer two but one, let no one separate them, for God has joined them together."
Matthew 5:28
- But I say, anyone who even looks at a woman with lust in his eye has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
- So if your eye--even if it is your good eye--causes you to lust, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
James 1:14
- Temptation comes from the lure of our own evil desires.
- These evil desires lead to evil actions, and evil actions lead to death.
Ephesians 6:4
- And now a word to you fathers. Don't make your children angry by the way you treat them. Rather, bring them up with the discipline and instruction approved by the Lord.
1 Corinthians 7:2
- But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband.
Jeremiah 2:21
- "How could this happen? When I planted you, I chose a vine of the purest stock--the very best. How did you grow into this corrupt wild vine?
Genesis 28:2
- Instead, go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your grandfather Bethuel, and marry one of your uncle Laban's daughters.
- May God Almighty bless you and give you many children. And may your descendants become a great assembly of nations!
- May God pass on to you and your descendants the blessings he promised to Abraham. May you own this land where we now are foreigners, for God gave it to Abraham."
Proverbs 7:25
- Don't let your hearts stray away toward her. Don't wander down her wayward path.
Genesis 6:2
- the sons of God saw the beautiful women of the human race and took any they wanted as their wives.
Matthew 15:19
- For from the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, all other sexual immorality, theft, lying, and slander.
Malachi 2:14
- You cry out, "Why has the LORD abandoned us?" I'll tell you why! Because the LORD witnessed the vows you and your wife made to each other on your wedding day when you were young. But you have been disloyal to her, though she remained your faithful companion, the wife of your marriage vows.
Genesis 1:27
- So God created people in his own image; God patterned them after himself; male and female he created them.
Genesis 24:3
- "Swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and earth, that you will not let my son marry one of these local Canaanite women.
- Go instead to my homeland, to my relatives, and find a wife there for my son Isaac."
- The servant asked, "But suppose I can't find a young woman who will travel so far from home? May I then take Isaac there to live among your relatives?"
- "No!" Abraham warned. "Be careful never to take my son there.
- For the LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and my native land, solemnly promised to give this land to my offspring. He will send his angel ahead of you, and he will see to it that you find a young woman there to be my son's wife.
2 Corinthians 6:18
- And I will be your Father, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty. "
Mark 10:6
- But God's plan was seen from the beginning of creation, for 'He made them male and female.'
- 'This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife,
- and the two are united into one.' Since they are no longer two but one,
Job 27:3
- As long as I live, while I have breath from God,
Deuteronomy 7:4
- They will lead your young people away from me to worship other gods. Then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and he will destroy you.
Hosea 1:10
- Yet the time will come when Israel will prosper and become a great nation. In that day its people will be like the sands of the seashore--too many to count! Then, at the place where they were told, `You are not my people,' it will be said, `You are children of the living God.'
Proverbs 6:25
- Don't lust for her beauty. Don't let her coyness seduce you.
Acts 3:25
- You are the children of those prophets, and you are included in the covenant God promised to your ancestors. For God said to Abraham, 'Through your descendants all the families on earth will be blessed.'
Ecclesiastes 12:7
- For then the dust will return to the earth, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.
Ezra 9:4
- Then all who trembled at the words of the God of Israel came and sat with me because of this unfaithfulness of his people. And I sat there utterly appalled until the time of the evening sacrifice.
Genesis 26:34
- At the age of forty, Esau married a young woman named Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite. He also married Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
- But Esau's wives made life miserable for Isaac and Rebekah.
John 20:22
- Then he breathed on them and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit.
Genesis 24:44
- And she will reply, "Certainly! And I'll water your camels, too!" LORD, let her be the one you have selected to be the wife of my master's son.'
Genesis 2:7
- And the LORD God formed a man's body from the dust of the ground and breathed into it the breath of life. And the man became a living person.
Genesis 27:46
- Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "I'm sick and tired of these local Hittite women. I'd rather die than see Jacob marry one of them."
Genesis 2:20
- He gave names to all the livestock, birds, and wild animals. But still there was no companion suitable for him.
- So the LORD God caused Adam to fall into a deep sleep. He took one of Adam's ribs and closed up the place from which he had taken it.
- Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib and brought her to Adam.
- "At last!" Adam exclaimed. "She is part of my own flesh and bone! She will be called `woman,' because she was taken out of a man."
- This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.
Nehemiah 13:24
- Even worse, half their children spoke in the language of Ashdod or some other people and could not speak the language of Judah at all.
Proverbs 4:23
- Above all else, guard your heart, for it affects everything you do.