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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  1. Malachi 2:15 Hebrew in it
  2. Malachi 2:15 Hebrew the one
  3. Malachi 2:15 Or And not one has done this who has a portion of the Spirit. And what was that one seeking?
  4. Malachi 2:15 Or So take care; also verse 16

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.

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  1. Malachi 2:15 The meaning of the Hebrew for the first part of this verse is uncertain.

He answered, (A)“Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, 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’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. (D)What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

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“Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’[a](A) 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) So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

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  1. Matthew 19:4 Gen. 1:27
  2. Matthew 19:5 Gen. 2:24

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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14 You ask,(A) “Why?” It is because the Lord is the witness(B) between you and the wife of your youth.(C) You have been unfaithful to her, though she is your partner, the wife of your marriage covenant.(D)

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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. 1 Timothy 3:11 Or Wives likewise, or Women likewise

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)

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  1. 1 Timothy 3:11 Possibly deacons’ wives or women who are deacons

18 (A)and I will be a father to you,
    and you shall be sons and daughters to me,
says the Lord Almighty.”

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18 And,

“I will be a Father to you,
    and you will be my sons and daughters,(A)
says the Lord Almighty.”[a](B)

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  1. 2 Corinthians 6:18 2 Samuel 7:14; 7:8

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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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)

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But (A)from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them (B)male and female.’ (C)‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife,[a] and (D)the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh.

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  1. Mark 10:7 Some manuscripts omit and hold fast to his wife

“But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’[a](A) ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,[b] and the two will become one flesh.’[c](B) So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

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  1. Mark 10:6 Gen. 1:27
  2. Mark 10:7 Some early manuscripts do not have and be united to his wife.
  3. Mark 10:8 Gen. 2:24

(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. Titus 1:6 Or a man of one woman
  2. Titus 1:6 Or are faithful

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.

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  1. Titus 1:6 Or children are trustworthy

He must manage his own household well, with all dignity (A)keeping his children submissive, 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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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) (If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God’s church?)(B)

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  1. 1 Timothy 3:4 Or him with proper

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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  1. Hosea 1:10 Ch 2:1 in Hebrew
  2. Hosea 1:10 Or Sons

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)

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as long as my breath is in me,
    and (A)the spirit of God is in my nostrils,

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as long as I have life within me,
    the breath of God(A) in my nostrils,

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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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14 but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own(A) evil desire and enticed. 15 Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin;(B) and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.(C)

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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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Fathers,[a] do not exasperate your children;(A) instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.(B)

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  1. Ephesians 6:4 Or Parents