Malachi 2:15
King James Version
15 And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
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Malachi 2:15
New International Version
15 Has not the one God made you?(A) You belong to him in body and spirit. And what does the one God seek? Godly offspring.[a](B) So be on your guard,(C) and do not be unfaithful(D) to the wife of your youth.
Footnotes
- Malachi 2:15 The meaning of the Hebrew for the first part of this verse is uncertain.
1 Corinthians 7:14
King James Version
14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
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1 Corinthians 7:14
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14 For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.(A)
Titus 1:6
King James Version
6 If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
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Titus 1:6
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6 An elder must be blameless,(A) faithful to his wife, a man whose children believe[a] and are not open to the charge of being wild and disobedient.
Footnotes
- Titus 1:6 Or children are trustworthy
1 Timothy 3:11-12
King James Version
11 Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
12 Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
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1 Timothy 3:11-12
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11 In the same way, the women[a] are to be worthy of respect, not malicious talkers(A) but temperate(B) and trustworthy in everything.
12 A deacon must be faithful to his wife(C) and must manage his children and his household well.(D)
Footnotes
- 1 Timothy 3:11 Possibly deacons’ wives or women who are deacons
1 Timothy 3:4-5
King James Version
4 One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
5 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
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1 Timothy 3:4-5
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4 He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him, and he must do so in a manner worthy of full[a] respect.(A) 5 (If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God’s church?)(B)
Footnotes
- 1 Timothy 3:4 Or him with proper
Matthew 19:4-6
King James Version
4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
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Matthew 19:4-6
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4 “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’[a](A) 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’[b]?(B) 6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
Footnotes
- Matthew 19:4 Gen. 1:27
- Matthew 19:5 Gen. 2:24
1 Corinthians 7:2
King James Version
2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
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1 Corinthians 7:2
New International Version
2 But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband.
Hosea 1:10
King James Version
10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.
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Hosea 1:10
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10 “Yet the Israelites will be like the sand on the seashore, which cannot be measured or counted.(A) In the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘children of the living God.’(B)
Jeremiah 2:21
King James Version
21 Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
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Jeremiah 2:21
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Job 27:3
King James Version
3 All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
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Job 27:3
New International Version
3 as long as I have life within me,
the breath of God(A) in my nostrils,
Deuteronomy 7:4
King James Version
4 For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.
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Deuteronomy 7:4
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4 for they will turn your children away from following me to serve other gods,(A) and the Lord’s anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy(B) you.
Genesis 28:2-4
King James Version
2 Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughers of Laban thy mother's brother.
3 And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;
4 And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.
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Genesis 28:2-4
New International Version
2 Go at once to Paddan Aram,[a](A) to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel.(B) Take a wife for yourself there, from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.(C) 3 May God Almighty[b](D) bless(E) you and make you fruitful(F) and increase your numbers(G) until you become a community of peoples. 4 May he give you and your descendants the blessing given to Abraham,(H) so that you may take possession of the land(I) where you now reside as a foreigner,(J) the land God gave to Abraham.”
Footnotes
- Genesis 28:2 That is, Northwest Mesopotamia; also in verses 5, 6 and 7
- Genesis 28:3 Hebrew El-Shaddai
Genesis 24:3-7
King James Version
3 And I will make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:
4 But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.
5 And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest?
6 And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again.
7 The Lord God of heaven, which took me from my father's house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence.
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Genesis 24:3-7
New International Version
3 I want you to swear(A) by the Lord, the God of heaven(B) and the God of earth,(C) that you will not get a wife for my son(D) from the daughters of the Canaanites,(E) among whom I am living,(F) 4 but will go to my country and my own relatives(G) and get a wife for my son Isaac.(H)”
5 The servant asked him, “What if the woman is unwilling to come back with me to this land?(I) Shall I then take your son back to the country you came from?(J)”
6 “Make sure that you do not take my son back there,”(K) Abraham said. 7 “The Lord, the God of heaven,(L) who brought me out of my father’s household and my native land(M) and who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, ‘To your offspring[a](N) I will give this land’(O)—he will send his angel before you(P) so that you can get a wife for my son from there.
Footnotes
- Genesis 24:7 Or seed
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