Malachi 2:8

American Standard Version (1901)

But ye are turned aside out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble in the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith Jehovah of hosts.

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  • Jer 18:15 : 15 For my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to false [gods] ; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in bypaths, in a way not cast up;
  • 1 Sam 2:17 : 17 And the sin of the young men was very great before Jehovah; for the men despised the offering of Jehovah.
  • Mal 2:5 : 5 My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him that he might fear; and he feared me, and stood in awe of my name.
  • Neh 13:29 : 29 Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.
  • Ezek 44:10 : 10 But the Levites that went far from me, when Israel went astray, that went astray from me after their idols, they shall bear their iniquity.
  • Dan 9:5-6 : 5 we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from thy precepts and from thine ordinances; 6 neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, that spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
  • Lev 21:15 : 15 And he shall not profane his seed among his people: for I am Jehovah who sanctifieth him.
  • Ps 18:21 : 21 For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, And have not wickedly departed from my God.
  • Ps 119:102 : 102 I have not turned aside from thine ordinances; For thou hast taught me.
  • Isa 9:16 : 16 For they that lead this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.
  • Isa 30:11 : 11 get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
  • Isa 59:13 : 13 transgressing and denying Jehovah, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
  • Jer 17:5 : 5 Thus saith Jehovah: Cursed is the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from Jehovah.
  • Jer 17:13 : 13 O Jehovah, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be put to shame. They that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Jehovah, the fountain of living waters.
  • Mal 2:9-9 : 9 Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have had respect of persons in the law. 10 Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?
  • Matt 15:2-5 : 2 Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread. 3 And he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition? 4 For God said, Honor thy father and thy mother: and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death. 5 But ye say, whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is given [to God] ;
  • Luke 11:45-46 : 45 And one of the lawyers answering saith unto him, Teacher, in saying this thou reproachest us also. 46 And he said, Woe unto you lawyers also! for ye load men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.
  • Rom 2:19-24 : 19 and art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness, 20 a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth; 21 thou therefore that teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal? 22 thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou rob temples? 23 thou who gloriest in the law, through thy transgression of the law dishonorest thou God? 24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, even as it is written.
  • Rom 14:21 : 21 It is good not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor [to do anything] whereby thy brother stumbleth.
  • Heb 3:12 : 12 Take heed, brethren, lest haply there shall be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God:
  • 1 Sam 2:24 : 24 Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make Jehovah's people to transgress.
  • 1 Sam 2:30 : 30 Therefore Jehovah, the God of Israel, saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now Jehovah saith, Be it far from me; for them that honor me I will honor, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
  • Jer 23:11-15 : 11 for both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith Jehovah. 12 Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery places in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith Jehovah. 13 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err. 14 In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands of evil-doers, so that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them become unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah. 15 Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall; for from the prophets of Jerusalem is ungodliness gone forth into all the land.

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