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Malachi 2:15-17
1599 Geneva Bible
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.
Malachi 2:15-17
New International Version
Malachi 2:15-17
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.
16 “The man who hates and divorces his wife,(E)” says the Lord, the God of Israel, “does violence to the one he should protect,”[b](F) says the Lord Almighty.
So be on your guard,(G) and do not be unfaithful.
Breaking Covenant Through Injustice
17 You have wearied(H) the Lord with your words.
“How have we wearied him?” you ask.(I)
By saying, “All who do evil are good in the eyes of the Lord, and he is pleased(J) with them” or “Where is the God of justice?(K)”
Footnotes
- Malachi 2:15 The meaning of the Hebrew for the first part of this verse is uncertain.
- Malachi 2:16 Or “I hate divorce,” says the Lord, the God of Israel, “because the man who divorces his wife covers his garment with violence,”
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