Malachi 2:14
But you say, For what reason? Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your early years, to whom you have been untrue, though she is your friend and the wife to whom you have given your word.
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15... So give thought to your spirit, and let no one be false to the wife of his early years.
Cross References
Genesis 2:18And the Lord God said, It is not good for the man to be by himself: I will make one like himself as a help to him
Judges 11:10And the responsible men of Gilead said to Jephthah, May the Lord be our witness: we will certainly do as you say.
Proverbs 2:17Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind:
Proverbs 5:20Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?
Ecclesiastes 9:9Have joy with the woman of your love all the days of your foolish life which he gives you under the sun. Because that is your part in life and in your work which you do under the sun.
Isaiah 54:6For the Lord has made you come back to him, like a wife who has been sent away in grief of spirit; for one may not give up the wife of one's early days.
Matthew Henry on Malachi 2:11-17
Unlawful Marriages; Breach of the Marriage-covenant; Charge of Corrupt Principles. ( b. c. 400.) 10 Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers? 11 Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the Lord which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god. 12 The Lord will cut off the man that doeth this,… Read the whole commentary →