Cross references
Malachi 2:14
Yet you ask, “Why?”
It is because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have broken faith, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.
Malachi 2:14 has 19 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 16 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Malachi 2:15 (15 votes) and Ecclesiastes 9:9 (9 votes). 30 other verses point back to it. It links with 19 other books, from Genesis 2 to 1 Peter 3.
Which verses does Malachi 2:14 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Malachi 2:1515 votes
Has not the LORD made them one, having a portion of the Spirit? And why one? Because He seeks godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith with the wife of your youth.
- Ecclesiastes 9:99 votes
Enjoy life with your beloved wife all the days of the fleeting life that God has given you under the sun—all your fleeting days. For this is your portion in life and in your labor under the sun.
- Isaiah 54:69 votes
For the LORD has called you back, like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit, like the rejected wife of one’s youth,” says your God.
- Genesis 31:507 votes
If you mistreat my daughters or take other wives, although no one is with us, remember that God is a witness between you and me.”
- Proverbs 2:176 votes
who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.
- Jeremiah 8:126 votes
Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse, says the LORD.
- Jeremiah 42:56 votes
Then they said to Jeremiah, “May the LORD be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act upon every word that the LORD your God sends you to tell us.
- Malachi 3:56 votes
“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
- Proverbs 5:18–195 votes
May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth: A loving doe, a graceful fawn—may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.
- Proverbs 30:205 votes
This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’
- Ezekiel 16:85 votes
- Micah 1:25 votes
- Malachi 1:6–75 votes
- Genesis 2:184 votes
- 1 Samuel 12:54 votes
- Song of Solomon 1:154 votes
- Judges 11:103 votes
- Isaiah 58:33 votes
- Malachi 3:81 vote
Which verses point to Malachi 2:14?
The 10 strongest of 30.