Malachi 2:15-17
1599 Geneva Bible
15 And did not [a]he make one? yet had he [b]abundance of spirit: and wherefore one? because he sought a godly [c]seed: therefore keep yourselves in your [d]spirit, and let none trespass against the wife of his youth.
16 If thou hatest her, [e]put her away, saith the Lord God of Israel, yet he covereth [f]the injury under his garment, saith the Lord of hosts: therefore keep yourselves in your spirit, and transgress not.
17 Ye have [g]wearied the Lord with your words: yet ye say wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Everyone that doeth [h]evil, is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delighteth in them. Or where is the God of [i]judgment?
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- 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.
- Malachi 2:17 Ye murmur against God, because he heard not you as soon as ye called.
- Malachi 2:17 In thinking that God favored the wicked, and hath no respect to them that serve him.
- Malachi 2:17 Thus they blasphemed God in condemning his power and justice, because he judged not according to their fantasies.
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