Malachi 2:9

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Summary

Therefore have I 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.

Made

Micah 3:6

Before

But

Have been partial in

Deuteronomy 1:17

General references

Deuteronomy 27:14

Job 13:8

Ezekiel 44:23

Bible References

Made

Look! I [am] going to rebuke {your offspring}, and I will scatter offal on your faces, [the] offal of your religious feasts, and you will be carried to it.

Therefore,' {declares} Yahweh the God of Israel, 'though I solemnly said that your house and the house of your ancestor would walk before me forever, but now,' {declares} Yahweh, 'far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, but those who despise me, I will treat with contempt!

The memory of righteousness [is] like a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.

And many from [those] sleeping {in the dusty ground} will awake, some to {everlasting life} and some to disgrace and {everlasting contempt}.

Therefore [it will be as] night to you, without vision, and darkness to you, without divination. And the sun will set on the prophets, and the day will grow dark over them.

Before

Then Micaiah said, "If you indeed return in peace, then Yahweh has not spoken with me." Then he said, "Let all the peoples hear!"

Then Jeremiah the prophet said to Hananiah the prophet, "Please listen, Hananiah, Yahweh has not sent you, and you have made this people trust in a lie.

And you, hear the word of Yahweh, all [you] exiles whom I sent away from Jerusalem [to] Babylon.

And look! [When] the wall falls, will it not be said to you, 'Where [is] the whitewash [with] which you covered [it]?'

[thus] making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down, and you do many similar [things] such as this."

And [while] all the people were listening, he said to the disciples,

But

But you, you have turned from the way; you have caused many to stumble by [your] instruction; you have ruined the covenant of Levi," says Yahweh of hosts.

"You have heard that it was said to the {people of old}, 'Do not commit murder,' and 'whoever commits murder will be subject to judgment.'

And he said to him, "Why are you asking me about [what is] good? There is one [who is] good. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments!"

"Woe to you, blind guides, who say, 'Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing! But whoever swears by the gold of the temple is bound [by his oath].'

Abandoning the commandment of God, you hold fast to the tradition of men."

But he, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?"

"But woe to you, Pharisees, because you pay a tenth of mint and rue and every garden herb, and neglect justice and love for God! But it was necessary to do these [things] without neglecting those things also.

What then shall we say? [Is] the law sin? May it never be! But I would not have known sin except through the law, for I would not have known covetousness if the law had not said, "Do not covet."

Have been partial in

You must not {be partial} {in your judgment}; hear [out] the small [person] as [also] the great [person]; {do not be intimidated by any person}, because the judgment [is] God's; and the case that is too difficult for you, bring [it] to me, and I will hear it [out].'

General references

And {the Levites shall declare}, and they shall say to each man of Israel [with] a loud voice,

{Will you show partiality for him}? Or do you want to plead God's case?

And they will teach my people [the difference] between what is holy and what is unholy, and [the difference] between unclean and clean they must show them.