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 as are servants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine be not blasphemed.

Exhort'servants to be in subjection to their own masters, and to be well-pleasing to them in all things; not gainsaying;

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

If then

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.

And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith Jehovah, Israel is my son, my first-born:

Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for Jehovah hath spoken: I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

But now, O Jehovah, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

They shall come with weeping; and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way wherein they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first-born.

After this manner therefore pray ye. Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

Be ye merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

And if ye call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to each man's work, pass the time of your sojourning in fear:

And if

Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven.

And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

Ye call me, Teacher, and, Lord: and ye say well; for so I am.

O priests

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.

and did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up unto mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire?

A wonderful and horrible thing is come to pass in the land:

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

Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.

Hear this, O ye priests, and hearken, O house of Israel, and give ear, O house of the king; for unto you pertaineth the judgment; for ye have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.

And ye

Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

From the days of your fathers ye have turned aside from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith Jehovah of hosts. But ye say, Wherein shall we return?

Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine unto me?

And Ephraim said, Surely I am become rich, I have found me wealth: in all my labors they shall find in me no iniquity that were sin.

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

General references

Woe unto him that saith unto a father, What begettest thou? or to a woman, With what travailest thou?

Forasmuch as the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father which he commanded them, but this people hath not hearkened unto me;

Thou hast despised my holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.

And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.

And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

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