Malachi 2:8

The priests have abandoned God's way, caused many to stumble through false teaching, and corrupted the covenant with Levi.

Cross-references · 23

• Neh 13:29Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.
• Jer 18:15Yet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways, leaving the ancient roads to walk on rutted bypaths instead of on the highway.
• Jer 17:5This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes the flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.
• Ezek 44:10Surely the Levites who wandered away from Me when Israel went astray, and who wandered away from Me after their idols, will bear the consequences of their iniquity.
• 1 Sam 2:17Thus the sin of these young men was severe in the sight of the LORD, for they were treating the LORD’s offering with contempt.
• Isa 30:11Get out of the way; turn off the road. Rid us of the Holy One of Israel!”
• Mal 2:5“My covenant with him was one of life and peace, which I gave to him; it called for reverence, and he revered Me and stood in awe of My name.
• Heb 3:12See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.
• Mal 2:9–10“So I in turn have made you despised and humiliated before all the people, because you have not kept My ways, but have shown partiality in matters of the law.”
• Lev 21:15so that he does not defile his offspring among his people, for I am the LORD who sanctifies him.”
• Rom 14:21It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything to cause your brother to stumble.
• 1 Sam 2:30Therefore, the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father would walk before Me forever. But now the LORD declares: Far be it from Me! For I will honor those who honor Me, but those who despise Me will be disdained.
• Ps 119:102I have not departed from Your ordinances, for You Yourself have taught me.
• Ps 18:21For I have kept the ways of the LORD and have not wickedly departed from my God.
• 1 Sam 2:24No, my sons; it is not a good report I hear circulating among the LORD’s people.
• Jer 23:11–15“For both prophet and priest are ungodly; even in My house I have found their wickedness,” declares the LORD.
• Matt 15:2–5“Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands before they eat.”
• Dan 9:5–6we have sinned and done wrong. We have acted wickedly and rebelled. We have turned away from Your commandments and ordinances.
• Isa 9:16For those who guide this people mislead them, and those they mislead are swallowed up.
• Rom 2:19–24if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those in darkness,
• Luke 11:45–46One of the experts in the law told Him, “Teacher, when You say these things, You insult us as well.”
• Isa 59:13rebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies from the heart.
• Jer 17:13O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who abandon You will be put to shame. All who turn away will be written in the dust, for they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of living water.

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