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 all that are under the yoke of slavery count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine not be blasphemed.

Exhort slaves to be subject to their own masters and to please them well in all things; not contradicting;

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

If then

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

And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, The LORD hath said thus: Israel is my son, even my firstborn.

Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD speaks, I have nourished and brought up sons, and they have rebelled against me.

But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; such that we all are the work of thy hands.

They shall come with weeping, but with mercies I will cause them to return; I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, in which they shall not stumble; for I shall be a father to Israel, and Ephraim shall be my firstborn.

Ye, therefore, are to pray like this: Our Father who art in the heavens, Hallowed be thy name.

Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.

And if ye invoke as Father, he who without respect of persons judges according to the work of each one, converse in fear the entire time of your sojourning here,

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 do not the things which I say?

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

O priests

But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble in the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, said the LORD of the hosts.

And I chose 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 I gave unto the house of thy father all the offerings on fire of the sons of Israel.

A horrible and ugly thing is committed in the land:

For both prophet and priest are feigned; even in my house I have found their wickedness, said the LORD.

Her priests have violated my law by force and have profaned my holy things; they have made no difference between the holy and the profane, neither have they showed the difference between the unclean and the clean and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

My people were cut off because they lacked wisdom; because thou hast rejected wisdom, I will cast thee out of the priesthood; seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy sons.

Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ear, O house of the king because the judgment is for you, for ye have been a snare in Mizpah and a net spread over Tabor.

And ye

Yet ye say, Why? Because the LORD has been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously; yet she is thy companion and the wife of thy covenant.

Even from the days of your fathers, ye had departed from my ordinances and had never kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, said the LORD of the hosts. But ye said, In what shall we return?

Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, a seed of Truth, all of her; how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?

And Ephraim said, Surely I have become rich, I have found riches for myself; no one shall find iniquity in me, nor sin in all my labours.

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

General references

Woe unto him that says unto his father, Why dost thou beget? or to the woman, Why hast thou brought forth?

Certainly the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have not moved the commandment of their father, which he commanded them; but this people has 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?

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