{"id":8728,"date":"2025-04-17T15:56:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T06:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kmi2.com\/?page_id=8728"},"modified":"2025-06-29T14:37:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T05:37:48","slug":"god-hates-divorce","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kmi2.com\/?page_id=8728","title":{"rendered":"God Hates Divorce"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">God Hates Divorce<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The bible translations below all say that God hates divorce and these translations are correct:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Malachi 2:16 (KJV 1900)<\/strong><br>16 For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: For one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: Therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Malachi 2:16 (NKJV)<\/strong><br>16 \u201cFor the LORD God of Israel says That He hates divorce, For it covers one\u2019s garment with violence,\u201d Says the LORD of hosts. Therefore take heed to your spirit, That you do not deal treacherously.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Malachi 2:16 (AMP)<\/strong><br>16 For the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I hate divorce and marital separation and him who covers his garment [his wife] with violence. Therefore keep a watch upon your spirit [that it may be controlled by My Spirit], that you deal not treacherously and faithlessly [with your marriage mate].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Malachi 2:16 (NASB95)<\/strong><br>16 \u201cFor I hate divorce,\u201d says the LORD, the God of Israel, \u201cand him who covers his garment with wrong,\u201d says the LORD of hosts. \u201cSo take heed to your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Malachi 2:16 (CJB)<\/strong><br>16 \u201cFor I hate divorce,\u201d says ADONAI the God of Isra\u2019el, \u201cand him who covers his clothing with violence,\u201d says ADONAI-Tzva\u2019ot. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and don\u2019t break faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Malachi 2:16 (NLT)<\/strong><br>16 \u201cFor I hate divorce!\u201d says the LORD, the God of Israel. \u201cTo divorce your wife is to overwhelm her with cruelty,\u201d says the LORD of Heaven\u2019s Armies. \u201cSo guard your heart; do not be unfaithful to your wife.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Malachi 2:16 (NIV84)<\/strong><br>16 \u201cI hate divorce,\u201d says the LORD God of Israel, \u201cand I hate a man\u2019s covering himself with violence as well as with his garment,\u201d says the LORD Almighty. So guard yourself in your spirit, and do not break faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The translations above are all correct in saying that &#8220;God hates Divorce&#8221; and this includes <strong>KJV<\/strong>, <strong>NKJV<\/strong>, <strong>AMP<\/strong>, <strong>NASB<\/strong>, <strong>CJB<\/strong>, <strong>NLT<\/strong>, and <strong>NIV84<\/strong> versions. These are correct translations for all of these verses of scripture &#8211; which adhere to God&#8217;s original intent (without alteration).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Mistranslation Alters that God Hates Divorce<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The scriptures below have all been altered so as to remove the concept that God hates divorce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Malachi 2:16 (NIV)<\/strong><br>16 \u201cThe man who hates and divorces his wife,\u201d says the LORD, the God of Israel, \u201cdoes violence to the one he should protect,\u201d says the LORD Almighty. So be on your guard, and do not be unfaithful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Malachi 2:16 (ESV)<\/strong><br>16 \u201cFor the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the LORD, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the LORD of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Malachi 2:16 (HCSB)<\/strong><br>16 \u201cIf he hates and divorces his wife, \u201d says the LORD God of Israel, \u201che covers his garment with injustice,\u201d says the LORD of Hosts. Therefore, watch yourselves carefully, and do not act treacherously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mistranslation of Malachi 2:16 includes <strong>NIV<\/strong>, <strong>ESV<\/strong>, and <strong>HCSB<\/strong> versions of the bible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It should be noted that words matter because if the scripture translation removes the original statement that God hates divorce and alters to to instead say that a man should not hate his wife by divorcing her &#8211; then this change that altogether changes the meaning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is interesting that the <strong>NIV1984<\/strong> version and the <strong>NI2011<\/strong> give different translations for the same Malachi 2:16 verse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Malachi 2:16 (NIV84)<\/strong><br>16 \u201cI hate divorce,\u201d says the LORD God of Israel, \u201cand I hate a man\u2019s covering himself with violence as well as with his garment,\u201d says the LORD Almighty. So guard yourself in your spirit, and do not break faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Malachi 2:16 (NIV)<\/strong><br>16 \u201cThe man who hates and divorces his wife,\u201d says the LORD, the God of Israel, \u201cdoes violence to the one he should protect,\u201d says the LORD Almighty. So be on your guard, and do not be unfaithful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Originally the NIV translation of 1984 (of the scripture Mal 2:16) was correct and said that God hates divorce. But this was altered in the newer translation of the NIV translated in 2011. The reason for this is that the NIV2011 was translated with a so-called &#8220;gender-inclusive&#8221; approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See the link &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kmi2.com\/?page_id=8737\">Review of NIV2011 and NIV1984<\/a>&#8221; for more details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This means that the scriptures of the NIV 2011 were adapted wherever possible to conform with modernist feminine agenda. This is again a case where instead of adapting their behavior to conform to the bible &#8211; they instead alter the bible to conform to their own feminist views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Altering the Bible to Conform to Feminist Views<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Deuteronomy 9:10 (NASB95)<\/strong><br>10 \u201cThe LORD gave me the two tablets of stone written by the finger of God; and on them were all the words which the LORD had spoken with you at the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The laws of God were written on two tablets of stone. The stone represents something that is eternal and unchanging and so God\u2019s laws are to never be altered to fit the preconceived ideas of humans. Instead humans are to repent and change their behavior to conform with the laws recorded in the bible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But just as the Nicolaitans reinvented God into their own image, so feminists also \u201creinvent\u201d and edit the bible to conform with their own perverse standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Malachi 2:16 (NASB95)<\/strong><br>16 \u201cFor I hate divorce,\u201d says the LORD, the God of Israel, \u201cand him who covers his garment with wrong,\u201d says the LORD of hosts. \u201cSo take heed to your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God hates divorce but the feminists love divorce because they want to be free from the curse of Eve that requires that her husband will rule over her. So they alter this same verse in the NIV2011 translation to remove the original statement that says God hates divorce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Malachi 2:16 (NIV)<\/strong><br>16 \u201cThe man who hates and divorces his wife,\u201d says the LORD, the God of Israel, \u201cdoes violence to the one he should protect,\u201d says the LORD Almighty. So be on your guard, and do not be unfaithful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this instance, the NIV2011 translation totally changes the emphasis of Malachi 2:16 and instead of saying that God hates divorce, they alter the meaning to say that a man should not hate his wife by divorcing her. This is altogether different in meaning and so it leaves the option open that a woman can divorce her husband. Thus they cancelled this scripture by removing the statement that says that God hates divorce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See the link &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kmi2.com\/?page_id=8479\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kmi2.com\/?page_id=8479\">Feminist Idol of Gender Equality<\/a>&#8221; for more details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See the link \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kmi2.com\/?page_id=3240\">7K-Bible<\/a>\u201d for more details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See also the link \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kmi2.com\/?page_id=3244\">7K-Bible Translation Mistakes<\/a>\u201d for more details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God Hates Divorce The bible translations below all say that God hates divorce and these translations are correct: Malachi 2:16 (KJV 1900)16 For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: For one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: Therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8728","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kmi2.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kmi2.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kmi2.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kmi2.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kmi2.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8728"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.kmi2.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9466,"href":"https:\/\/www.kmi2.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8728\/revisions\/9466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kmi2.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}