Malachi 2:8

An Oracle Against The Temple Priesthood

⁷ For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Jehovah of hosts. ⁸ But ye are turned aside out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble in the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith Jehovah of hosts. ⁹ Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have had respect of persons in the law.

Lord Almighty

Lord of Hosts

Says the Lord

Violated The Covenant

Jehovah

Levi

No

Jeremiah 18:15

For my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to false gods ; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in bypaths, in a way not cast up;

1 Samuel 2:17

And the sin of the young men was very great before Jehovah; for the men despised the offering of Jehovah.

Nehemiah 13:29

Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.

Ezekiel 44:10

But the Levites that went far from me, when Israel went astray, that went astray from me after their idols, they shall bear their iniquity.

Malachi 2:5

My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him that he might fear; and he feared me, and stood in awe of my name.

Leviticus 21:15

And he shall not profane his seed among his people: for I am Jehovah who sanctifieth him.

1 Samuel 2:24

Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make Jehovah's people to transgress.

1 Samuel 2:30

Therefore Jehovah, the God of Israel, saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now Jehovah saith, Be it far from me; for them that honor me I will honor, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

Psalm 18:21

For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, And have not wickedly departed from my God.

Psalm 119:102

I have not turned aside from thine ordinances; For thou hast taught me.

Isaiah 9:16

For they that lead this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.

Isaiah 30:11

get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.

Isaiah 59:13

transgressing and denying Jehovah, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

Jeremiah 17:5

Thus saith Jehovah: Cursed is the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from Jehovah.

Jeremiah 17:13

O Jehovah, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be put to shame. They that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Jehovah, the fountain of living waters.

Jeremiah 23:11-15

for both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith Jehovah.

Daniel 9:5-6

we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from thy precepts and from thine ordinances;

Malachi 2:9-10

Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have had respect of persons in the law.

Matthew 15:2-5

Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.

Luke 11:45-46

And one of the lawyers answering saith unto him, Teacher, in saying this thou reproachest us also.

Romans 2:19-24

and art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness,

Romans 14:21

It is good not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything whereby thy brother stumbleth.

Hebrews 3:12

Take heed, brethren, lest haply there shall be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God: