Malachi 2:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

But you have turned out of the way; you have caused many to stumble at the law; you have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the LORD of hosts.

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  • Jer 18:15 : 15 Because my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not established;
  • 1 Sam 2:17 : 17 Therefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD; for men despised the offering of the LORD.
  • Mal 2:5 : 5 My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear with which he feared me and was afraid before my name.
  • Neh 13:29 : 29 Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.
  • Ezek 44:10 : 10 And the Levites who went far away from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray away from me after their idols; they shall bear their iniquity.
  • Dan 9:5-6 : 5 We have sinned and committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and from Your judgments: 6 Neither have we listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
  • Lev 21:15 : 15 Neither shall he profane his descendants among his people: for I the LORD do sanctify him.
  • Ps 18:21 : 21 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
  • Ps 119:102 : 102 I have not departed from Your judgments, for You Yourself have taught me.
  • Isa 9:16 : 16 For the leaders of this people cause them to err, and those who are led by them are destroyed.
  • Isa 30:11 : 11 Get 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 In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
  • Jer 17:5 : 5 Thus says the LORD; Cursed is the man that trusts in man, and makes flesh his strength, and whose heart departs from the LORD.
  • Jer 17:13 : 13 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake you shall be ashamed, and those that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.
  • Mal 2:9-9 : 9 Therefore, I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as you have not kept my ways but have been partial in the law. 10 Have we not all one father? Has not one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?
  • Matt 15:2-5 : 2 Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread. 3 But he answered and said to them, Why do you also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? 4 For God commanded, saying, Honor your father and mother: and, He that curses father or mother, let him die. 5 But you say, Whoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatever you might be profited by me;
  • Luke 11:45-46 : 45 Then one of the lawyers answered and said to him, Teacher, by saying this you reproach us also. 46 And he said, Woe to you also, lawyers! for you load men with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.
  • Rom 2:19-24 : 19 And are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, 20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, who have the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law. 21 You therefore who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that a man should not steal, do you steal? 22 You who say a man should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you commit sacrilege? 23 You who make your boast of the law, through breaking the law do you dishonor God? 24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, as it is written.
  • Rom 14:21 : 21 It is good neither to eat meat nor drink wine nor do anything by which your brother stumbles or is offended or is made weak.
  • Heb 3:12 : 12 Beware, brothers and sisters, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
  • 1 Sam 2:24 : 24 No, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear; you make the LORD's people transgress.
  • 1 Sam 2:30 : 30 Therefore the LORD God of Israel says, I did indeed say that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before me forever: but now the LORD says, Be it far from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
  • Jer 23:11-15 : 11 For both prophet and priest are profane. Yes, in my house I have found their wickedness, says the LORD. 12 Therefore their way shall be to them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall in it; for I will bring disaster upon them, the year of their punishment, says the LORD. 13 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria: they prophesied by Baal and caused my people Israel to err. 14 I have also seen a horrible thing in the prophets of Jerusalem: They commit adultery and walk in lies. They also strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that none returns from his wickedness. They are all to me as Sodom, and the inhabitants of it as Gomorrah. 15 Therefore thus says the LORD 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 profaneness has gone forth into all the land.

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    2If you will not hear, and if you will not take it to heart, to give glory to my name, says the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings; yes, I have cursed them already because you do not take it to heart.

    3Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung on your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.

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