Footnote

a Throughout the Scriptures, Jehovah God speaks of himself as hating attitudes and forms of conduct that are sinful. (Deuteronomy 16:22; Proverbs 6:16-19; 8:13; Isaiah 1:14; 61:8) Viewed in this light, the divorcing referred to at Malachi 2:16 must also be of a type that is sinful in his eyes.