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 6:46And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?
• Isa 1:2Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
• John 13:13–17Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am.
• Exod 20:12Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
• 1 Pet 2:17–19Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
• 1 Pet 1:17And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:
• Hos 12:8And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin.
• Mal 3:13–14Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?
• Isa 64:8But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
• Prov 30:17The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
• Matt 6:9After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
• Titus 2:9–10Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again;
• Eph 6:2Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise;
• Matt 7:21Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
• Ezek 22:26Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
• Prov 30:11There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
• Jer 23:11For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.
• Lev 19:3Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
• Mal 2:14–17Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
• Jer 5:30–31A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;
• Deut 5:16Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
• Matt 19:19Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
• Hos 4:6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
• Jer 2:21–22Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
• 1 Sam 2:28–30And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings made by fire of the children of Israel?
• Mark 10:19Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.
• Luke 10:29But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour?
• Mal 2:8But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.
• 1 Tim 6:1–2Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.
• Matt 15:6And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
• Mark 7:10For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
• Luke 18:20Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.
• Mal 3:7–8Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?
• Luke 6:36Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.
• Matt 6:14–15For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
• Jer 31:9They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
• Exod 4:22–23And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:
• Matt 15:4For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
• Hos 5:1Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.

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