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

As many as are servants under a yoke, their own masters worthy of all honour let them reckon, that the name of God and the teaching may not be evil spoken of;

Servants -- to their own masters are to be subject, in all things to be well-pleasing, not gainsaying,

to all give ye honour; the brotherhood love ye; God fear ye; the king honour ye.

If then

And I also, I have made you despised and low before all the people, Because ye are not keeping My ways, And are accepting persons in the law.

and thou hast said unto Pharaoh, Thus said Jehovah, My son, My first-born is Israel,

Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, For Jehovah hath spoken: Sons I have nourished and brought up, And they -- they transgressed against Me.

And now, O Jehovah, thou art our Father, We are the clay, and Thou our Framer, And the work of Thy hand -- all of us.

With weeping they come in, And with supplications I bring them, I cause them to go unto streams of waters, In a right way -- they stumble not in it, For I have been to Israel for a father, And Ephraim -- My first-born is he.

thus therefore pray ye: 'Our Father who art in the heavens! hallowed be Thy name.

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

and if on the Father ye do call, who without acceptance of persons is judging according to the work of each, in fear the time of your sojourn pass ye,

And if

'Not every one who is saying to me Lord, lord, shall come into the reign of the heavens; but he who is doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens.

'And why do ye call me, Lord, Lord, and do not what I say?

ye call me, The Teacher and The Lord, and ye say well, for I am;

O priests

And ye, ye have turned from the way, Ye have caused many to stumble in the law, Ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, Said Jehovah of Hosts.

even to choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to Me for a priest, to go up on Mine altar, to make a perfume, to bear an ephod before Me, and I give to the house of thy father all the fire-offerings of the sons of Israel?

An astonishing and horrible thing hath been in the land.

For both prophet and priest have been profane, Yea, in My house I found their wickedness, An affirmation of Jehovah.

Its priests have wronged My law, And they pollute My holy things, Between holy and common they have not made separation, And between the unclean and the clean they have not made known, And from my sabbaths they have hidden their eyes, And I am pierced in their midst.

Cut off have been My people for lack of knowledge, Because thou knowledge hast rejected, I reject thee from being priest to Me, And thou forgettest the law of thy God, I forget thy sons, I also!

Hear this, O priests, and attend, O house of Israel, And, O house of the king, give ear, For the judgment is for you, For, a snare ye have been on Mizpah, And a net spread out on Tabor.

And ye

And ye have said, 'Wherefore?' Because Jehovah hath testified between thee And the wife of thy youth, That thou hast dealt treacherously against her, And she thy companion, and thy covenant-wife.

Even from the days of your fathers Ye have turned aside from My statutes, And ye have not taken heed. Turn back unto Me, and I turn back to you, Said Jehovah of Hosts. And ye have said, 'In what do we turn back?'

And I planted thee a choice vine, wholly a true seed, And how hast thou been turned to Me, To the degenerate shoots of a strange vine?

And Ephraim saith: 'Surely I have become rich, I have found wealth for myself, All my labours -- they find not against me iniquity that is sin.'

And he, willing to declare himself righteous, said unto Jesus, 'And who is my neighbour?'

General references

Woe to him who is saying to a father, 'What dost thou beget?' Or to a wife, 'What dost thou bring forth?

'Because the sons of Jonadab son of Rechab have performed the command of their father, that he commanded them, and this people have not hearkened unto Me,

My holy things thou hast despised, And My sabbaths thou hast polluted.

And now, to you is this charge, O priests,

'And why do ye call me, Lord, Lord, and do not what I say?

honour thy father and mother,