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Malachi 2:15

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.

KJV

Nonne unus fecit, et residuum spiritus ejus est ? et quid unus quærit, nisi semen Dei ? custodite ergo spiritum vestrum, et uxorem adolescentiæ tuæ noli despicere.

Vulgate

καὶ οὐ καλὸν ἐποίησεν καὶ ὑπόλιμμα πνεύματος αὐτοῦ; καὶ εἴπατε Τί ἄλλο ἢ σπέρμα ζητεῖ ὁ θεός; καὶ φυλάξασθε ἐν τῷ πνεύματι ὑμῶν, καὶ γυναῖκα νεότητός σου μὴ ἐνκαταλίπῃς·

LXX

And did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? And wherefore one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

ASV

וְ/לֹא אֶחָ֣ד עָשָׂ֗ה וּ/שְׁאָ֥ר ר֨וּחַ֙ ל֔/וֹ וּ/מָה֙ הָֽ/אֶחָ֔ד מְבַקֵּ֖שׁ זֶ֣רַע אֱלֹהִ֑ים וְ/נִשְׁמַרְתֶּם֙ בְּ/ר֣וּחֲ/כֶ֔ם וּ/בְ/אֵ֥שֶׁת נְעוּרֶ֖י/ךָ אַל יִבְגֹּֽד

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

14 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶחָ֖ד
'chd
adjective · 970×
אַל
'l
preposition · 720×
בַקֵּ֥שׁ
bqsh
verb · 225×
בֹּגְדִ֣ים
bgdym
verb · 49×
וֹ
v
noun · 780×
וֹ
v
noun · 226×
י
y
noun · 46×
יַּ֥עַשׂ
y'sh
verb · 2621×
ךָ
k
noun · 2564×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
מַה
mh
particle · 745×
ר֣וּחַ
rvch
noun · 377×
שְׁאָ֣ר
sh'r
noun · 26×
שֹׁמְרֵ֥י
shmry
verb · 467×

Themes

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§1611Seeing God's covenant with Israel in the image of exclusive and faithful married love, the prophets prepared the Chosen People's conscience for a deepened understanding of the unity and indissolubility of marriage.102 The books of Ruth and Tobit bear moving witness to an elevated sense of marriage and to the fidelity and tenderness of spouses. Tradition has always seen in the S…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 7:14 — 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.
  • 1Cor 7:14 — 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.
  • 1Tim 3:4 — One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
  • 1Tim 3:11 — Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
  • 2Chr 22:3 — He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.
  • 2Cor 6:14 — Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
  • 2Cor 6:18 — And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
  • Deut 4:15 — Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:
  • Deut 7:4 — 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.
  • Deut 17:17 — Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
  • Eccl 9:9 — Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in th
  • Eph 6:4 — And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
  • Ezra 9:2 — For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath be
  • Gen 1:27 — So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
  • Gen 1:27 — So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
  • Gen 2:20 — And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
  • Gen 5:2 — Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
  • Gen 6:2 — That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
  • Gen 24:3 — 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:
  • Gen 28:2 — Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother’s father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother’s brother.
  • Gen 29:27 — Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
  • Hos 1:10 — 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
  • Isa 6:13 — But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance
  • Jas 1:14 — But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
  • Jer 2:21 — 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?
  • Job 27:3 — All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
  • Joel 1:8 — Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
  • Judg 19:1 — And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehemjudah.
  • Lev 18:18 — Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.
  • Mal 2:14 — Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
  • Mal 2:14 — Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
  • Mark 10:6 — But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
  • Matt 5:28 — But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
  • Matt 15:19 — For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
  • Matt 19:4 — And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
  • Matt 19:4 — And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
  • Prov 6:25 — Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
  • Prov 7:25 — Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
  • Titus 1:6 — If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.