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.

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Footnotes

  1. Malachi 2:15 The meaning of the Hebrew for the first part of this verse is uncertain.

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.

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and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’[a]?(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 19:5 Gen. 2:24

And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

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