Malachi 2:12

God warns that He will cut off from the community anyone who commits this treachery, even if he still brings offerings.

Cross-references · 26

• 2 Tim 3:13But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
• Matt 15:14Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”
• Mal 2:10Don’t we all have one father? Hasn’t one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?
• Lev 20:3I also will set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people because he has given of his offspring to Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.
• Isa 9:14–16Therefore Yahweh will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed, in one day.
• 1 Chr 25:8They cast lots for their offices, all alike, the small as well as the great, the teacher as well as the student.
• Rev 19:20The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.
• Isa 24:1–2Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants.
• Amos 5:22Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals.
• 1 Sam 3:14Therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli’s house shall not be removed with sacrifice or offering forever.”
• Isa 66:3He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog’s neck; he who offers an offering, as he who offers pig’s blood; he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations:
• Isa 61:8“For I, Yahweh, love justice. I hate robbery and iniquity. I will give them their reward in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
• Mal 1:10“Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
• 1 Sam 15:22–23Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.
• Num 15:30–31“‘But the soul who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, the same blasphemes Yahweh. That soul shall be cut off from among his people.
• Lev 18:29“‘For whoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from among their people.
• Ezek 14:10They will bear their iniquity. The iniquity of the prophet will be even as the iniquity of him who seeks him;
• Hos 4:4–5“Yet let no man bring a charge, neither let any man accuse; For your people are like those who bring charges against a priest.
• Zech 12:7Yahweh also will save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of David’s house and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem not be magnified above Judah.
• Ezra 10:18–19Among the sons of the priests there were found who had married foreign women: of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brothers, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.
• Ezek 24:21Speak to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind shall fall by the sword.
• Num 24:5How goodly are your tents, Jacob, and your tents, Israel!
• Josh 23:12–13“But if you do at all go back, and hold fast to the remnant of these nations, even these who remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you;
• Neh 13:28–29One of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite; therefore I chased him from me.
• 1 Sam 2:31–34Behold, the days come, that I will cut off your arm, and the arm of your father’s house, that there will not be an old man in your house.
• Gen 4:3–5As time passed, Cain brought an offering to Yahweh from the fruit of the ground.

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