Malachi 2:1

World English Bible (2000)

"Now, you priests, this commandment is for you.

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Referenced Verses

  • Mal 1:6 : 6 "A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, 'How have we despised your name?'
  • Jer 13:13 : 13 Then you shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings who sit on David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.
  • Lam 4:13 : 13 [It is] because of the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, That have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.
  • Hos 5:1 : 1 "Listen to this, you priests! Listen, house of Israel, and give ear, house of the king! For the judgment is against you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Mal 2:2
    84%

    2 If you will not listen, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name," says Yahweh of Armies, "then will I send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it to heart.

  • Mal 2:7-9
    3 verses
    78%

    7 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.

    8 But you have turned aside out of the way. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi," says Yahweh of Armies.

    9 "Therefore I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.

  • Hos 5:1
    78%

    1 "Listen to this, you priests! Listen, house of Israel, and give ear, house of the king! For the judgment is against you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor.

  • Mal 1:6-7
    2 verses
    76%

    6 "A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, 'How have we despised your name?'

    7 You offer polluted bread on my altar. You say, 'How have we polluted you?' In that you say, 'Yahweh's table contemptible.'

  • Hag 2:11
    75%

    11 "Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying,

  • Mal 2:4
    75%

    4 You will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant may be with Levi," says Yahweh of Armies.

  • Hag 1:5
    74%

    5 Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways.

  • Jer 11:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2 Hear the words of this covenant, and speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;

    3 and say to them, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: Cursed is the man who doesn't hear the words of this covenant,

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

    9 Haven't you driven out the priests of Yahweh, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made priests for yourselves after the ways of the peoples of [other] lands? so that whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams, the same may be a priest of [those who are] no gods.

    10 "But as for us, Yahweh is our God, and we have not forsaken him; and [we have] priests ministering to Yahweh, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites in their work:

  • Deut 11:27-28
    2 verses
    73%

    27 the blessing, if you shall listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you this day;

    28 and the curse, if you shall not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which you have not known.

  • Mal 1:9
    73%

    9 "Now, please entreat the favor of God, that he may be gracious to us. With this, will he accept any of you?" says Yahweh of Armies.

  • Hag 1:7
    73%

    7 This is what Yahweh of Armies says: "Consider your ways.

  • Jer 26:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    4 You shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh: If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,

    5 to listen to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I send to you, even rising up early and sending them, but you have not listened;

  • Lev 22:1
    72%

    1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Mal 3:9
    72%

    9 You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation.

  • Exod 19:6
    72%

    6 and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.' These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel."

  • Num 16:10
    72%

    10 and that he has brought you near, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you? and do you seek the priesthood also?

  • Joel 1:13
    72%

    13 Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God's house.

  • Mal 1:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13 You say also, 'Behold, what a weariness it is!' and you have sniffed at it," says Yahweh of Armies; "and you have brought that which was taken by violence, the lame, and the sick; thus you bring the offering. Should I accept this at your hand?" says Yahweh.

    14 "But the deceiver is cursed, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the Lord a blemished thing; for I am a great King," says Yahweh of Armies, "and my name is awesome among the nations."

  • Mal 3:7
    72%

    7 From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you," says Yahweh of Armies. "But you say, 'How shall we return?'

  • Jer 10:1
    72%

    1 Hear the word which Yahweh speaks to you, house of Israel!

  • Mal 2:13
    72%

    13 This again you do: you cover the altar of Yahweh with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn't regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand.

  • Jer 11:6
    72%

    6 Yahweh said to me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear the words of this covenant, and do them.

  • Num 18:1
    71%

    1 Yahweh said to Aaron, "You and your sons and your fathers' house with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.

  • Joel 2:17
    71%

    17 Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, "Spare your people, Yahweh, and don't give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, 'Where is their God?'"

  • Jer 2:4
    71%

    4 Hear the word of Yahweh, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel!

  • Deut 27:10
    71%

    10 You shall therefore obey the voice of Yahweh your God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command you this day."

  • Num 15:22
    71%

    22 "'When you shall err, and not observe all these commandments, which Yahweh has spoken to Moses,

  • Lev 17:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

    2 "Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them: 'This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded,

  • Jer 29:25
    71%

    25 Thus speaks Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, saying, Because you have sent letters in your own name to all the people who are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the priests, saying,

  • Exod 19:22
    71%

    22 Let the priests also, who come near to Yahweh, sanctify themselves, lest Yahweh break forth on them."

  • 2 Chr 24:20
    71%

    20 The Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people, and said to them, "Thus says God, 'Why do you disobey the commandments of Yahweh, so that you can't prosper? Because you have forsaken Yahweh, he has also forsaken you.'"

  • Jer 22:1
    71%

    1 Thus said Yahweh: Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,

  • Jer 2:8
    71%

    8 The priests didn't say, 'Where is Yahweh?' and those who handle the law didn't know me. The rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

  • Hos 4:9
    70%

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

  • 2 Chr 31:4
    70%

    4 Moreover he commanded the people who lived in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might give themselves to the law of Yahweh.

  • Zech 1:4
    70%

    4 Don't you be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: Thus says Yahweh of Armies, 'Return now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings;' but they did not hear, nor listen to me, says Yahweh.

  • 2 Chr 29:5
    70%

    5 and said to them, "Listen to me, you Levites! Now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of Yahweh, the God of your fathers, and carry out the filthiness out of the holy place.

  • Jer 2:1
    70%

    1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

  • 1 Chr 15:12
    70%

    12 and said to them, "You are the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the Levites. Sanctify yourselves, both you and your brothers, that you may bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel, to the place that I have prepared for it.

  • Jer 28:7
    70%

    7 Nevertheless hear you now this word that I speak in your ears, and in the ears of all the people: