Malachi 2:13-16
1599 Geneva Bible
13 And this have ye done again, and [a]covered the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping and with mourning: because the offering is no more regarded, neither received acceptably at your hands.
14 Yet ye say, [b]Wherein? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast transgressed: yet is she thy [c]companion, and the wife of thy [d]covenant.
15 And did not [e]he make one? yet had he [f]abundance of spirit: and wherefore one? because he sought a godly [g]seed: therefore keep yourselves in your [h]spirit, and let none trespass against the wife of his youth.
16 If thou hatest her, [i]put her away, saith the Lord God of Israel, yet he covereth [j]the injury under his garment, saith the Lord of hosts: therefore keep yourselves in your spirit, and transgress not.
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- Malachi 2:13 Yet cause the people to lament, because that God doth not regard their sacrifices, so that they seem to sacrifice in vain.
- Malachi 2:14 This is another fault, whereof he accuseth them, that is, that they broke the laws of marriage.
- Malachi 2:14 As the one half of thyself.
- Malachi 2:14 She that was joined to thee by a solemn covenant, and by the invocation of God’s name.
- Malachi 2:15 Did not God make man and woman as one flesh and not many?
- Malachi 2:15 By his power and virtue he could have made many women for one man.
- Malachi 2:15 Such as should be born in lawful and moderate marriage, wherein is no excess of lusts.
- Malachi 2:15 Contain yourselves within your bounds, and be sober in mind, and bridle your affections.
- Malachi 2:16 Not that he doth allow divorcement, but of two faults he showeth, which is the less.
- Malachi 2:16 He thinketh it sufficient to keep his wife still, albeit he take others, and so as it were covereth his fault.
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