Malachi 2:16 (NLT)

“For I hate divorce!” says the LORD, the God of Israel. “To divorce your wife is to overwhelm her with cruelty,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies. “So guard your heart; do not be unfaithful to your wife.”

From Background Notes [BN] for May 19^th & 20^th written by Pastor Bob Brown:

The state of unfaithfulness pertains not only to the marriage, for it also has an impact on the surrounding community...


The crisis Israel faced when Malachi preached suffused throughout the whole society. In some ways, unfaithfulness within marriages uncovered a general moral malaise where keeping promises, holding to commitments and making good on pledges were serious weaknesses in the winder culture. As goes marriage, so goes the wider social fabric.  [BN, 7]

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