Malachi 2:15
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15 (A)Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union?[a] And what was the one God[b] seeking?[c] (B)Godly offspring. So guard yourselves[d] in your spirit, and let none of you be (C)faithless to the wife of your youth.
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- Malachi 2:15 Hebrew in it
- Malachi 2:15 Hebrew the one
- Malachi 2:15 Or And not one has done this who has a portion of the Spirit. And what was that one seeking?
- Malachi 2:15 Or So take care; also verse 16
Matthew 19:4-6
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4 He answered, (A)“Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, 5 and said, (B)‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and (C)the two shall become one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two but one flesh. (D)What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
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Malachi 2:14
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14 (A)But you say, “Why does he not?” Because the Lord (B)was witness between you and the wife of your youth, (C)to whom (D)you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.
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1 Timothy 3:11-12
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11 (A)Their wives likewise[a] must be dignified, not slanderers, but sober-minded, (B)faithful in all things. 12 Let deacons each be (C)the husband of one wife, (D)managing their children and their own households well.
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- 1 Timothy 3:11 Or Wives likewise, or Women likewise
2 Corinthians 6:18
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18 (A)and I will be a father to you,
and you shall be sons and daughters to me,
says the Lord Almighty.”
1 Corinthians 7:14
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14 For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. (A)Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.
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Mark 10:6-8
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6 But (A)from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them (B)male and female.’ 7 (C)‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife,[a] 8 and (D)the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh.
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- Mark 10:7 Some manuscripts omit and hold fast to his wife
Titus 1:6
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6 (A)if anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife,[a] and his children are believers[b] and not open to the charge of (B)debauchery or insubordination.
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1 Timothy 3:4-5
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4 He must manage his own household well, with all dignity (A)keeping his children submissive, 5 for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for (B)God's church?
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Hosea 1:10
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10 [a] Yet (A)the number of the children of Israel shall be (B)like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. (C)And (D)in the place where it was said to them, (E)“You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, (F)“Children[b] of (G)the living God.”
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- Hosea 1:10 Ch 2:1 in Hebrew
- Hosea 1:10 Or Sons
Job 27:3
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3 as long as my breath is in me,
and (A)the spirit of God is in my nostrils,
James 1:14-15
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14 But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. 15 Then desire (A)when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and (B)sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.
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Ephesians 6:4
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4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, (A)but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
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Matthew 15:19
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19 For out of the heart come (A)evil thoughts, (B)murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, (C)slander.
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Matthew 5:28-29
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28 But I say to you that (A)everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29 (B)If your right eye (C)causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into (D)hell.
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Jeremiah 2:21
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21 (A)Yet I planted you a choice vine,
wholly of pure seed.
(B)How then have you turned degenerate
and become a wild vine?
Proverbs 7:25
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25 Let not your heart turn aside to her ways;
do not stray into her paths,
Proverbs 6:25
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Deuteronomy 7:4
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4 for they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods. (A)Then the anger of the Lord would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you (B)quickly.
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Genesis 28:2-4
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2 (A)Arise, go to Paddan-aram to the house of (B)Bethuel your mother's father, and take as your wife from there one of the daughters of Laban your mother's brother. 3 (C)God Almighty[a] bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become a company of peoples. 4 May he give (D)the blessing of Abraham to you and to your offspring with you, that you may take possession of (E)the land of your sojournings that God gave to Abraham!”
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- Genesis 28:3 Hebrew El Shaddai
Genesis 24:3-7
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3 that I may make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and God of the earth, that (A)you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell, 4 (B)but will go to my country and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac.” 5 The servant said to him, “Perhaps the woman may not be willing to follow me to this land. Must I then take your son back to the land from which you came?” 6 Abraham said to him, “See to it that you do not take my son back there. 7 The Lord, the God of heaven, (C)who took me from my father's house and from the land of my kindred, and who spoke to me and swore to me, (D)‘To your offspring I will give this land,’ (E)he will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.
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Genesis 6:2
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2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose.
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Genesis 2:20-24
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20 The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam[a] there was not found a helper fit for him. 21 So the Lord God caused a (A)deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. 22 And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made[b] into a woman and brought her to the man. 23 Then the man said,
“This at last is (B)bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called Woman,
because she was (C)taken out of Man.”[c]
24 (D)Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
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- Genesis 2:20 Or the man
- Genesis 2:22 Hebrew built
- Genesis 2:23 The Hebrew words for woman (ishshah) and man (ish) sound alike
Genesis 1:27
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27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
(A)male and female he created them.
1 Corinthians 7:2
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2 But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
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