Malachi 2:1

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And now, this command is for you, O priests.

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  • Mal 1:6 : 6 A son honors his father, and a servant respects his master. If I am a father, where is the honor I deserve? If I am a master, where is the respect due me? says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise my name. But you ask, 'How have we despised your name?'
  • Jer 13:13 : 13 Then you shall say to them, ‘This is what the LORD says: Behold, I am about to fill all the inhabitants of this land, the kings who sit on David’s throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the people of Jerusalem with drunkenness.
  • Lam 4:13 : 13 It happened because of the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst.
  • Hos 5:1 : 1 Hear this, O priests; pay attention, O house of Israel; listen, O royal house! For judgment is meant for you, because you have become a snare at Mizpah and a net spread over Tabor.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Mal 2:2
    84%

    2If you do not listen and if you do not take it to heart to honor My name, says the Lord of Hosts, I will send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed them because you do not take it to heart.

  • Mal 2:7-9
    3 verses
    78%

    7For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the Lord of Hosts.

    8But you have turned aside from the way, and by your teaching have caused many to stumble. You have violated the covenant with Levi, says the Lord of Hosts.

    9So I have also made you despised and humiliated before all the people, because you have not kept My ways but have shown partiality in matters of the law.

  • Hos 5:1
    78%

    1Hear this, O priests; pay attention, O house of Israel; listen, O royal house! For judgment is meant for you, because you have become a snare at Mizpah and a net spread over Tabor.

  • Mal 1:6-7
    2 verses
    76%

    6A son honors his father, and a servant respects his master. If I am a father, where is the honor I deserve? If I am a master, where is the respect due me? says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise my name. But you ask, 'How have we despised your name?'

    7By presenting defiled food on my altar. But you ask, 'How have we defiled you?' By saying, 'The LORD's table is contemptible.'

  • Hag 2:11
    75%

    11This is what the LORD of Hosts says: Ask the priests for a ruling:

  • Mal 2:4
    75%

    4Then you will know that I have sent this command to you so that My covenant with Levi may continue, says the Lord of Hosts.

  • Hag 1:5
    74%

    5Now, this is what the LORD of Hosts says: Consider carefully your ways.

  • Jer 11:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2Listen to the words of this covenant, and speak them to the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

    3Say to them, ‘This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Cursed is the one who does not listen to the words of this covenant.

  • 2 Chr 13:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9Have you not driven out the priests of the LORD, the descendants of Aaron, and the Levites, and appointed your own priests like the peoples of other lands? Whoever comes with a young bull and seven rams can become a priest of what are not gods.

    10But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken Him. The priests who serve the LORD are the descendants of Aaron, and the Levites carry out their responsibilities.

  • Deut 11:27-28
    2 verses
    73%

    27the blessing if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I am giving you today,

    28and the curse if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God but turn aside from the way I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.

  • Mal 1:9
    73%

    9Now plead with God to be gracious to us. Will he accept you? This offering came from your hands. How can he be pleased with you? says the LORD of Hosts.

  • Hag 1:7
    73%

    7This is what the LORD of Hosts says: Consider carefully your ways.

  • Jer 26:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    4And you shall say to them, 'The LORD says: If you do not listen to Me and follow My law which I have set before you...

    5...and listen to the words of My servants the prophets, whom I have persistently sent to you (though you have not listened),

  • Lev 22:1
    72%

    1The LORD spoke to Moses, saying:

  • Mal 3:9
    72%

    9You are under a curse—your whole nation—because you are robbing me.

  • Exod 19:6
    72%

    6You will be for Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites.

  • Num 16:10
    72%

    10He has brought you and all your fellow Levites near to Him, but now you are demanding the priesthood as well!

  • Joel 1:13
    72%

    13Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests; wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you who minister to my God, for grain offerings and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.

  • Mal 1:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13You say, 'What a burden!' and you sniff at it with contempt, says the LORD of Hosts. When you bring stolen, lame, or sick animals and offer them as sacrifices, should I accept them from your hands? says the LORD.

    14Cursed is the deceiver who has a male animal in his flock and vows to give it, but instead sacrifices a blemished animal to the Lord. For I am a great King, says the LORD of Hosts, and my name is to be feared among the nations.

  • Mal 3:7
    72%

    7From the days of your ancestors, you have turned away from my statutes and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of Hosts. But you ask, 'How shall we return?'

  • Jer 10:1
    72%

    1Hear the word that the Lord has spoken to you, O house of Israel.

  • Mal 2:13
    72%

    13And this is another thing you do: You cover the altar of the Lord with tears, weeping and groaning, because He no longer regards your offering or accepts it with favor from your hands.

  • Jer 11:6
    72%

    6The LORD said to me, ‘Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying: Listen to the words of this covenant and do them.’

  • Num 18:1
    71%

    1Then the LORD said to Aaron, 'You, your sons, and your father's family with you will bear the responsibility for offenses related to the sanctuary. Also, you and your sons with you will bear the responsibility for offenses connected to your priesthood.'

  • Joel 2:17
    71%

    17Let the priests, who minister before the LORD, weep between the portico and the altar. Let them say, 'Spare your people, LORD. Do not make your heritage an object of scorn, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, “Where is their God?”'

  • Jer 2:4
    71%

    4Hear the word of the LORD, house of Jacob, and all the clans of the house of Israel.

  • Deut 27:10
    71%

    10Obey the voice of the LORD your God and follow His commandments and statutes that I am giving you today.

  • Num 15:22
    71%

    22If you unintentionally fail to follow any of these commands that the Lord has instructed to Moses—

  • Lev 17:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

    2Speak to Aaron, his sons, and all the Israelites, and say to them: This is the command that the Lord has given:

  • Jer 29:25
    71%

    25This is what the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Because you have sent letters in your own name to all the people in Jerusalem, to the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah, and to all the priests, saying:

  • Exod 19:22
    71%

    22Even the priests who come near the LORD must consecrate themselves, or the LORD will break out against them.

  • 2 Chr 24:20
    71%

    20Then the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah, the son of Jehoiada the priest. Standing above the people, he said to them, 'This is what God says: Why do you disobey the Lord's commands and bring about your own failure? Because you have forsaken the Lord, He has also forsaken you.'

  • Jer 22:1
    71%

    1This is what the LORD says: Go down to the house of the king of Judah and deliver this message there.

  • Jer 2:8
    71%

    8The priests did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD?’ Those who handle the law did not know me; the shepherds rebelled against me; the prophets prophesied by Baal and followed worthless things.

  • Hos 4:9
    70%

    9And it will be like people, like priest. I will punish them for their ways, and repay them for their deeds.

  • 2 Chr 31:4
    70%

    4He also commanded the people living in Jerusalem to give the portion due to the priests and Levites so that they could devote themselves fully to the Law of the Lord.

  • Zech 1:4
    70%

    4Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the earlier prophets proclaimed: 'This is what the Lord of Hosts says: Turn now from your evil ways and your evil deeds.' But they would not listen or pay attention to me, declares the Lord.

  • 2 Chr 29:5
    70%

    5He said to them, 'Listen to me, Levites! Now consecrate yourselves, and consecrate the house of the LORD, the God of your ancestors, and remove the impurity from the holy place.'

  • Jer 2:1
    70%

    1The word of the LORD came to me, saying:

  • 1 Chr 15:12
    70%

    12He said to them, "You are the heads of the Levitical families. Consecrate yourselves, you and your relatives, so that you may bring up the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel, to the place I prepared for it.

  • Jer 28:7
    70%

    7Nevertheless, listen now to this word I am speaking in your hearing and in the hearing of all the people: