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, my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.
• Jer 18:15For my people have forgotten me. They have burned incense to false gods. They have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up;
• Jer 17:5Yahweh says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.
• Ezek 44:10But the Levites who went far from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, they shall bear their iniquity.
• 1 Sam 2:17The sin of the young men was very great before Yahweh; for the men despised the offering of Yahweh.
• Isa 30:11Get out of the way. Turn aside from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.”
• Mal 2:5“My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him that he might be reverent toward me; and he was reverent toward me, and stood in awe of my name.
• Heb 3:12Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;
• Mal 2:9–10“Therefore I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.
• Lev 21:15He shall not profane his offspring among his people, for I am Yahweh who sanctifies him.’”
• Rom 14:21It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.
• 1 Sam 2:30“Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before me forever.’ But now Yahweh says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be lightly esteemed.
• Ps 119:102I have not turned aside from your ordinances, for you have taught me.
• Ps 18:21For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
• 1 Sam 2:24No, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear! You make Yahweh’s people disobey.
• Jer 23:11–15for both prophet and priest are profane; yes, in my house I have found their wickedness,” says Yahweh.
• Matt 15:2–5“Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat bread.”
• Dan 9:5–6we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances;
• Isa 9:16For those who lead this people lead them astray; and those who are led by them are destroyed.
• Rom 2:19–24and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
• Luke 11:45–46One of the lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in saying this you insult us also.”
• Isa 59:13transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
• Jer 17:13Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be disappointed. Those who depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.

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