Malachi 1:6

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Malachi 1:6

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Summary

A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?

A servant

1 Timothy 6:1

Titus 2:9

1 Peter 2:17

If then

And if

Matthew 7:21

Luke 6:46

John 13:13

O priests

Hosea 5:1

And ye

Luke 10:29

General references

Bible References

A servant

Let as many slaves as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, so that the name and doctrine of God may not be blasphemed.

Slaves are to be obedient to their masters, to please them well in all things, not talking against,

Honor all. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

If then

Therefore I have also made you despised and low before all the people, just as you have not kept My ways but are lifting up faces in the law.

And you shall say to Pharaoh, Thus says the Lord: Israel is My son, My first-born.

Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for Jehovah has spoken, I have nursed and brought up sons, and they have rebelled against Me.

But now, O Jehovah, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are our Former; and we all are the work of Your hand.

They shall come with weeping, and with prayers I will lead them. I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way; they shall not stumble in it, for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is My firstborn.

Therefore pray in this way: Our Father, who is in Heaven, Hallowed be Your name.

Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

And if you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judges according to the work of each one, pass the time of your earthly residence in fear,

And if

Not everyone who says to Me, Lord! Lord! shall enter the kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in Heaven.

And why do you call Me Lord, Lord, and do not do what I say?

You call Me the Teacher, and Lord, and you say well, for I AM.

O priests

But you have turned out of the way; you have caused many to stumble at the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says Jehovah of Hosts.

And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be My priest, to offer upon My altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before Me? And did I give to the house of your father all the offerings made by fire from the sons of Israel?

An astounding and horrible thing has happened in the land.

For both prophet and priest are ungodly; yes, in My house I have found their evil, says Jehovah.

Her priests have broken My Law and have defiled My holy things. They have put no difference between the holy and the common, and have not taught between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from My sabbaths, and I am defiled among them.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you from being priest to Me. Since you have forgotten the Law of your God, I will also forget your sons, even I.

Hear this, O priests, and listen, house of Israel. And give ear, house of the king. For judgment is toward you, because you have been a snare on Mizpah and a net spread on Tabor.

And ye

Yet you say, Why? Because Jehovah has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously; yet she is your companion and your covenant wife.

From the days of your fathers, you have turned aside from My statutes, and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you, says Jehovah of Hosts. But you say. In what way shall we return?

Yet I planted you a noble vine, wholly a true seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate shoots of an alien vine to Me?

And Ephraim said, Yet I have become rich, I have found much wealth for myself. In all my labors they shall find in me no iniquity that is sin.

But he, willing to justify himself, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbor?

General references

Woe to him who says to his father, What are you fathering? Or to the woman, What are you laboring over?

Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have done the commandment of their father, which He commanded them; but this people has not listened to Me;

You have despised My holy things, and have profaned My sabbaths.

And now, O priests, this command is for you.

And why do you call Me Lord, Lord, and do not do what I say?

Honor your father and mother (which is the first commandment with a promise),