Malachi 3:1

God promises to send a messenger to prepare His way, after which the Lord and the messenger of the covenant will suddenly come to His temple.

Cross-references · 33

• Mal 4:5Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
• Luke 1:76And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways;
• Mark 1:2–3As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
• Isa 63:9In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
• Matt 11:10–11For this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
• Luke 7:26–28But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and much more than a prophet.
• Mal 2:7For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
• Acts 19:4Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.
• Isa 40:3–5The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
• John 1:6–7There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
• Matt 17:10–13And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?
• Exod 23:20Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.
• Luke 1:16–17And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God.
• Matt 3:1–3In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea,
• Ps 110:1The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
• Hag 2:7–9And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts.
• Isa 7:14Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
• Acts 7:38This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
• Luke 19:47And he taught daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him,
• Luke 3:3–6And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;
• Luke 2:21–32And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called JESUS, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
• John 1:15–23John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
• Isa 9:6For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
• John 1:33–34And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.
• Luke 2:46And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions.
• Luke 2:11For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
• Luke 7:19–20And John calling unto him two of his disciples sent them to Jesus, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for another?
• Hos 12:3–5He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God:
• Acts 13:24–25When John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
• John 3:28–30Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.
• John 2:14–16And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:
• Gen 48:15–16And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day,
• Luke 2:38And she coming in that instant gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake of him to all them that looked for redemption in Jerusalem.

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