Malachi 1:6

God indicts the priests for despising His name, for they fail to honor Him as a son honors a father or a servant his master.

Cross-references · 39

• Luke 6:46Why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ but not do what I say?
• Isa 1:2Listen, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD has spoken: “I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against Me.
• John 13:13–17You call Me Teacher and Lord, and rightly so, because I am.
• Exod 20:12Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
• 1 Pet 2:17–19Treat everyone with high regard: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king.
• 1 Pet 1:17Since you call on a Father who judges each one’s work impartially, conduct yourselves in reverent fear during your stay as foreigners.
• Hos 12:8And Ephraim boasts: “How rich I have become! I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors, they can find in me no iniquity that is sinful.”
• Mal 3:13–14“Your words against Me have been harsh,” says the LORD. “Yet you ask, ‘What have we spoken against You?’
• Isa 64:8But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.
• Prov 30:17As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.
• Matt 6:9So then, this is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name.
• Titus 2:9–10Slaves are to submit to their own masters in everything, to be well-pleasing, not argumentative,
• Eph 6:2“Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise),
• Matt 7:21Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
• Ezek 22:26Her priests do violence to My law and profane My holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they fail to distinguish between the clean and the unclean. They disregard My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.
• Prov 30:11There is a generation of those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.
• Jer 23:11“For both prophet and priest are ungodly; even in My house I have found their wickedness,” declares the LORD.
• Lev 19:3Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must keep My Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.
• Mal 2:14–17Yet you ask, “Why?” It is because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have broken faith, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.
• Jer 5:30–31A horrible and shocking thing has happened in the land.
• Deut 5:16Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
• Matt 19:19honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself.’”
• Hos 4:6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.
• Jer 2:21–22I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine?
• 1 Sam 2:28–30And out of all the tribes of Israel I selected your father to be My priest, to offer sacrifices on My altar, to burn incense, and to wear an ephod in My presence. I also gave to the house of your father all the offerings of the Israelites made by fire.
• Mark 10:19You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not cheat others, honor your father and mother.’”
• Luke 10:29But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
• Mal 2:8But you have departed from the way, and your instruction has caused many to stumble. You have violated the covenant of Levi,” says the LORD of Hosts.
• 1 Tim 6:1–2All who are under the yoke of slavery should regard their masters as fully worthy of honor, so that God’s name and our teaching will not be discredited.
• Matt 15:6he need not honor his father or mother with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
• Mark 7:10For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’
• Luke 18:20You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not bear false witness, honor your father and mother.’”
• Mal 3:7–8Yet from the days of your fathers, you have turned away from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Hosts. “But you ask, ‘How can we return?’
• Luke 6:36Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.
• Matt 6:14–15For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
• Jer 31:9They will come with weeping, and by their supplication I will lead them; I will make them walk beside streams of waters, on a level path where they will not stumble. For I am Israel’s Father, and Ephraim is My firstborn.”
• Exod 4:22–23Then tell Pharaoh that this is what the LORD says: ‘Israel is My firstborn son,
• Matt 15:4For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’
• Hos 5:1“Hear this, O priests! Take heed, O house of Israel! Give ear, O royal house! For this judgment is against you because you have been a snare at Mizpah, a net spread out on Tabor.

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