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

All who are under the yoke of slavery should regard their own masters as deserving of the highest respect, so that the name of God and our teaching may not be discredited.

Slaves are to submit to their masters in everything, aiming to please them and not argue with them

Honor everyone. Keep on loving the community of believers, fearing God, and honoring the king.

If then

"So I also made you despised, humiliating you before all of the people, because you aren't following my ways and are showing partiality when you teach."

You are to say to Pharaoh, "This is what the LORD says: "Israel is my firstborn son.

Listen, you heavens, and let the earth pay attention, because the LORD has spoken: "I reared children and brought them to adulthood, but then they rebelled against me.

But as for you, O LORD, you are our Father; and we are clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hands.

They'll come crying, and I'll lead them as they pray for mercy. I'll make them walk by streams of water, along a straight path on which they won't stumble. For I am Israel's father, and Ephraim is my firstborn."

Therefore, this is how you should pray: "Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.

Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful."

If you call "Father" the one who judges everyone impartially according to what they have done, you must live in reverent fear as long as you are strangers in a strange land.

And if

"Not everyone who keeps saying to me, "Lord, Lord,' will get into the kingdom from heaven, but only the person who keeps doing the will of my Father in heaven.

"Why do you keep calling me "Lord, Lord,' but don't do what I tell you?

You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right because that is what I am.

O priests

"But you priests turned aside from the way, and by your teaching you caused many to stumble. You have violated the covenant of Levi," says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies.

that I had chosen him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer up burnt offerings on my altar, burn incense, and carry the ephod in my presence? And did I not give to your ancestors' family all the Israeli fire-offerings?

"An appalling and horrible thing has happened in the land:

Indeed, both priest and prophet are ungodly. Even in my house I find evil," declares the LORD.

Her priests have violated my Law and profaned my sacred things. They didn't differentiate between what's sacred and what's common. They didn't instruct others to discern clean from unclean things. They refused to keep my Sabbaths.

My people are destroyed because they lack knowledge of me. Because you rejected that knowledge, I will reject you as a priest for me. Since you forget the Law of your God, I will also forget your children.

"Hear this, priests, pay attention, house of Israel, listen, royal family! For judgment is coming your way, because you have been a trap to Mizpah, a snare spread out on Mount Tabor.

And ye

Yet you ask, "For what reason?' Because the LORD acts as a witness between you and the wife of your youth, because you were unfaithful to her, your partner, the wife of your covenant.

"Ever since the time of your ancestors, you have turned away from my decrees and haven't kept them. Return to me and I'll return to you," says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies. "But you ask, "How will we return?'

I planted you myself as a choice vine, from the very best seed. How did you turn against me into a degenerate and foreign vine?

Ephraim claims, "I have become rich, I have made a fortune! Because of all my wealth, no one will find any iniquity or sin in me.'

But the man wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?"

General references

Woe to the one who says to his father, "What are you begetting?' or to a woman, "To what are you giving birth?'!"

Indeed the descendants of Rechab's son Jonadab have carried out the command of their ancestor that he gave them, but this people has not obeyed me."

"""You have despised my sacred things and profaned my Sabbaths.

Now this commandment is for you priests:

"Why do you keep calling me "Lord, Lord,' but don't do what I tell you?

"Honor your father and mother"" (This is a very important commandment with a promise.)