Malachi 2:15

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—

So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.

The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

Discipline your son, for there is hope; don’t be a willing party to his death.

But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.

Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.

See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”

All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring, because you have obeyed my voice.’ ”

For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.

His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

“I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?”

For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made.

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

A revelation, Yahweh’s word concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.

The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

All on the dry land, in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.

I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treats you with contempt. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”

You will bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance, the place, Yahweh, which you have made for yourself to dwell in; the sanctuary, Lord, which your hands have established.

When Jehu had come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and adorned her head, and looked out at the window.

Now therefore let’s make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and those who are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God. Let it be done according to the law.

How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it.

Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.

He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in the middle of it, and also cut out a wine press in it. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.

What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?

everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.’ ”

They shall bring all your brothers out of all the nations for an offering to Yahweh, on horses, in chariots, in litters, on mules, and on camels, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says Yahweh, as the children of Israel bring their offering in a clean vessel into Yahweh’s house.

The Lord Yahweh says to these bones: “Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you will live.

They shall be mine,” says Yahweh of Armies, “my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

For there is no good tree that produces rotten fruit; nor again a rotten tree that produces good fruit.

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

For Adam was formed first, then Eve.

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead.

He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

Therefore Yahweh God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.

I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then your offspring may also be counted.

Your offspring will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your offspring, all the families of the earth will be blessed.

Remove your way far from her. Don’t come near the door of her house,

As the army of the sky can’t be counted, and the sand of the sea can’t be measured; so I will multiply the offspring of David my servant and the Levites who minister to me.’ ”

He said, “Call his name Lo-Ammi; for you are not my people, and I will not be yours.

But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.

He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

He also walked in the ways of Ahab’s house, because his mother was his counselor in acting wickedly.

For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy offspring have mixed themselves with the peoples of the lands. Yes, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass.”

(for the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity, for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

He created them male and female, and blessed them. On the day they were created, he named them Adam.

then she tells me, “Drink, and I will also draw for your camels,”—let her be the woman whom Yahweh has appointed for my master’s son.’

Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?”

Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me for seven more years.”

“ ‘You shall not take a wife in addition to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is still alive.

He shall not profane his offspring among his people, for I am Yahweh who sanctifies him.’ ”

Be very careful, for you saw no kind of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the middle of the fire,

For that would turn away your sons from following me, that they may serve other gods. So Yahweh’s anger would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.

Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body, for he had many wives.

In those days, when there was no king in Israel, there was a certain Levite living on the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim, who took for himself a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah.

Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel were assembled to me, because of their trespass of the captivity; and I sat confounded until the evening offering.

and their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews’ language, but according to the language of each people.

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

Don’t let your heart turn to her ways. Don’t go astray in her paths,

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

If there is a tenth left in it, that also will in turn be consumed, as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stump remains when they are cut down; so the holy seed is its stock.”

Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a pure and faithful seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?

Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can’t be measured or counted; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’

Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!

Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,

When he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit!

You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘All the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring.’

I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.