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 a yoke, be counting, their own masters, worthy, of all honour, lest, the name of God and the teaching, be defamed.

Servants, unto their own masters, to be submitting themselves in all things, to be, well-pleasing, not gainsaying,

Unto all men, give honour, unto the brotherhood, shew love, unto God, give reverence, the king, hold in honour.

If then

Therefore, I also, will suffer you to be despised and of no account unto all the people, - in proportion as none of you have been keeping my ways, but have had respect to persons, in giving your deliverance.

Then shalt thou say unto Pharaoh, Thus, saith Yahweh - My son - my firstborn, is Israel;

Hear O heavens, And give ear, O earth, for Yahweh, hath spoken: - Sons, have I brought up, and advanced, And, they, have rebelled against me.

But, now, O Yahweh, our father, thou art, - We are the clay, and, thou, art our potter, Yea the work of thy hand, are we all:

With weeping, shall they come in, And with supplications, will I lead them, I will bring them unto rivers of waters By a smooth way, wherein they shall not stumble, - For I have become, to Israel, a father, And as for Ephraim, my firstborn, is he!

Thus, therefore pray, ye: Our Father, who art in the heavens, - Hallowed be thy name,

Become ye compassionate, according as, your Father, is, compassionate;

And, if, as Father, ye are invoking him who, without respect of persons, judgeth according to each man's work, with reverence, for the time of your sojourning, behave ye;

And if

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

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

Ye, call me, The Teacher, and, The Lord, - and, well, say, for I am.

O priests

But, ye, have departed out of the way, ye have caused multitudes to stumble at the deliverance, - ye have violated the covenant of Levi, saith Yahweh of hosts.

choosing him out of all the tribes of Israel unto myself, to minister as priest, to offer upon mine altar, to perfume with incense to bear an ephod before me, - Therefore gave I unto the house of thy father all the altar-flames of the sons of Israel.

An astounding and horrible thing, hath been brought to pass in the land:

For both prophet and priest, are profane, - Even in my house, have I found their wickedness, Declareth Yahweh.

Her priests have done violence to my law And have profaned my holy things, Between the hallowed and the common, have they put no difference, And between the unclean and clean, have they not taught men to discern,- And from my sabbaths, have they hid their eyes, So that I have been profaned in their midst.

My people, are destroyed, for lack of knowledge, - Because, thou, hast rejected knowledge, therefore will I reject thee from ministering as priest unto me, and, because thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also, will forget thy children.

Hear ye this - O priests, and attend, O house of Israel, and ye, House of the King, give ear, for, to you, pertaineth the sentence, - for, a snare, have ye been to Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor.

And ye

Yet ye say, For what cause? Because, Yahweh, hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, with whom, thou, hast dealt treacherously, though, she, was thy consort, and thy covenant wife.

From the days of your fathers, have ye departed from my statutes, and not observed them, Return ye unto me, that I may return unto you, saith Yahweh of hosts. And yet ye say, Wherein shall we return?

Yet, I, planted thee a precious vine, a wholly true seed, - How then didst thou change thyself towards me, into the degenerate plantings of the alien vine?

So then Ephraim said, Surely I have gotten me riches, I have found wealth for myself, - in all my toils, they cannot find in me perversity which is sin.

But, he, wishing to justify himself, said unto Jesus - And, who is, my, neighbour?

General references

Alas, for one who saith to a father, What begettest thou? Or to a woman What dost thou bring forth?

Because the sons of Jonadab son of Rechab have, confirmed, the commandment of their father which he commanded them, - whereas, this people, have not hearkened unto me,

My holy things, hast thou despised,- And my sabbaths, hast thou profaned:

Now, therefore, for you, is this charge, O ye priests: -

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

Honour thy father and thy mother, - which indeed is the first commandment with promise,