Malachi 2:15 Cross References - Riverside

²⁸ But I say to you that every one who looks at a woman with lustful thoughts has already committed adultery with her in his heart. ²⁹ If your right eye is a snare to you, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is better for you that one of your members should be lost and not your whole body be cast into Gehenna.

¹⁹ For from the heart proceed wicked thoughts, murders, adulteries, unchastities, thefts, perjuries, profane words.

⁴ He replied, "Have you not read that the Creator in the beginning 'made them male and female,' ⁵ and said, 'For this cause shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave to his wife and the two shall become one flesh'? ⁶ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What, therefore, God has yoked together let not man put asunder."

⁶ But from the beginning of the creation, 'male and female made he them.' ⁷ 'Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother ⁸ and the two shall become one flesh.' So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

²² When he had said this, he breathed on them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit.

²⁵ You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God established with your fathers when he said to Abraham, 'In your descendants all the families of the earth will be blessed.'

² But because of the prevailing unchastity, let each man have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

¹⁴ For the unbelieving husband has been made holy by the wife and the unbelieving wife has been made holy by the husband. Otherwise your children would be impure, but now they are holy.

¹⁸ and will be a Father to you and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord, the Ruler of all."

⁴ And you, fathers, do not irritate your children, but bring them up in the education and admonition of the Lord.

⁴ presiding well over his own house, with children obedient and respectful. ⁵ But if any one does not know how to preside over his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?

¹¹ Women, in the same way, must be dignified, not slanderers, temperate, trustworthy in everything. ¹² Deacons must be men true to one woman, presiding well over their children and their own houses.

⁶ wherever there is a man of irreproachable character, true to one woman, with believing children who are not charged with dissolute conduct and not unruly.

¹⁴ Every one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own passions and enticed. ¹⁵ Then when passion has conceived it gives birth to sin, and sin, when it is full grown, gives birth to death.