Wherefore.

Malachi 1:6, 7
"A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?" says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. Yet you ask, "How have we despised Your name?" . . .

Malachi 3:8
"Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me!" You ask, "How do we rob You?" "In tithes and offerings.

Proverbs 30:20
This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, "I have done no wrong."

Isaiah 58:3
"Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we humbled ourselves, and You have not noticed?" "Behold, on the day of your fast, you do as you please, and you oppress all your workers.

Jeremiah 8:12
Are they ashamed of their loathsome conduct? No, they have no shame at all, not even enough to blush. Therefore they will fall among the fallen. When I punish them, they will collapse, says the LORD.

the Lord.

Malachi 3:5
"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.

Genesis 31:50
If you mistreat my daughters or take other wives, although no one is with us, remember that God is witness between you and me."

Judges 11:10
And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "The LORD is our witness if we do not do as you say."

1 Samuel 12:5
Samuel said to them, "The LORD is a witness against you, and His anointed is a witness today, that you have not found anything in my hand." "He is a witness, " they said.

Jeremiah 42:5
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.

Micah 1:2
Hear, O peoples, all of you; Listen, O earth, and everyone in it! The Lord GOD will witness against you, the Lord from His holy temple.

the wife.

Malachi 2:15
Has not the LORD made them one, having a portion of the Spirit? And why one? Because He seeks godly offspring. Therefore guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith with the wife of your youth.

Proverbs 5:18, 19
May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth: . . .

Ecclesiastes 9:9
Enjoy life with your beloved wife all the days of the fleeting life which has been given to you under the sun--all your fleeting days. For this is your portion in life and in your labor under the sun.

Isaiah 54:6
For the LORD has called you back, like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit, the wife of one's youth when she is rejected, " says your God.

thy companion.

Genesis 2:18
The LORD God also said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make for him a suitable helper."

Proverbs 2:17
who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.

Song of Solomon 1:15
How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how very beautiful! Your eyes are like doves.

Ezekiel 16:8
Then I passed by you and saw you, and you were indeed old enough for love. So I spread My cloak over you and covered your nakedness. I pledged Myself to you, entered into a covenant with you, and you became Mine, declares the Lord GOD.