Malachi 1:13

The priests find God's service wearisome and contemptuously bring stolen, lame, and sick animals, which God refuses to accept.

Cross-references · 22

• Mic 6:3‘My people, what have I done to you? Testify against Me how I have wearied you!
• Mark 14:37–38Then Jesus returned and found them sleeping. “Simon, are you asleep?” He asked. “Were you not able to keep watch for one hour?
• Lev 22:19–23must offer an unblemished male from the cattle, sheep, or goats in order for it to be accepted on your behalf.
• Mal 1:7–8By presenting defiled food on My altar. But you ask, ‘How have we defiled You?’ By saying that the table of the LORD is contemptible.
• Matt 6:1–2“Be careful not to perform your righteous acts before men to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.
• Isa 43:22–23But you have not called on Me, O Jacob, because you have grown weary of Me, O Israel.
• Matt 6:16When you fast, do not be somber like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.
• Ezek 4:14“Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have not eaten anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth.”
• Ezek 44:31The priests may not eat any bird or animal found dead or torn by wild beasts.
• Mark 14:4–5Some of those present, however, expressed their indignation to one another: “Why this waste of perfume?
• Jer 7:21–24This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves!
• Isa 57:6Your portion is among the smooth stones of the valley; indeed, they are your lot. Even to them you have poured out a drink offering and offered a grain offering. Should I relent because of these?
• Zech 7:5–6“Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted?
• 1 Sam 2:29Why then do you kick at My sacrifice and offering that I have prescribed for My dwelling place? You have honored your sons more than Me by fattening yourselves with the best of all the offerings of My people Israel.’
• Isa 1:12When you come to appear before Me, who has required this of you—this trampling of My courts?
• Mal 2:13And this is another thing you do: You cover the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping and groaning, because He no longer regards your offerings or receives them gladly from your hands.
• Amos 8:5asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales.
• Jer 7:9–11Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,
• Amos 5:21–23“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.
• Matt 6:5And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.
• Lev 22:8He must not eat anything found dead or torn by wild animals, which would make him unclean. I am the LORD.
• Deut 15:21But if an animal has a defect, is lame or blind, or has any serious flaw, you must not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.

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