Malachi 1:6

American King James Version (1999)

A son honors his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is my honor? and if I be a master, where is my fear? said the LORD of hosts to you, O priests, that despise my name. And you say, Wherein have we despised your name?

Cross References

Psalm 123:2

Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden to the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait on the LORD our God, until that he have mercy on us.

Exodus 20:12

Honor your father and your mother: that your days may be long on the land which the LORD your God gives you.

Proverbs 17:6

Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.

Proverbs 30:11

There is a generation that curses their father, and does not bless their mother.

Proverbs 30:17

The eye that mocks at his father, and despises to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

Isaiah 1:2

Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD has spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

Isaiah 43:23

You have not brought me the small cattle of your burnt offerings; neither have you honored me with your sacrifices. I have not caused you to serve with an offering, nor wearied you with incense.

Isaiah 45:10

Woe to him that said to his father, What beget you? or to the woman, What have you brought forth?

Isaiah 64:7

And there is none that calls on your name, that stirs up himself to take hold of you: for you have hid your face from us, and have consumed us, because of our iniquities.

Isaiah 64:8

But now, O LORD, you are our father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.

Jeremiah 23:11

For both prophet and priest are profane; yes, in my house have I found their wickedness, said the LORD.

Jeremiah 3:4

Will you not from this time cry to me, My father, you are the guide of my youth?

Jeremiah 31:9

They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

Jeremiah 35:16

Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father, which he commanded them; but this people has not listened to me:

Ezekiel 22:26

Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they showed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

Hosea 12:8

And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labors they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin.

Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you shall be no priest to me: seeing you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.

Hosea 5:1

Hear you this, O priests; and listen, you house of Israel; and give you ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you, because you have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor.

Leviticus 19:3

You shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.

Zephaniah 3:4

Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.

Malachi 2:1

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

Malachi 2:10

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?

Malachi 2:8

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

Malachi 3:5

And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, said the LORD of hosts.

Matthew 15:4

For God commanded, saying, Honor your father and mother: and, He that curses father or mother, let him die the death.

Matthew 15:6

And honor not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have you made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.

Matthew 19:19

Honor your father and your mother: and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Matthew 6:9

After this manner therefore pray you: Our Father which are in heaven, Hallowed be your name.

Matthew 7:21

Not every one that said to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that does the will of my Father which is in heaven.

Mark 10:19

You know the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honor your father and mother.

Mark 7:10

For Moses said, Honor your father and your mother; and, Whoever curses father or mother, let him die the death:

Luke 10:29

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

Luke 18:20

You know the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor your father and your mother.

Luke 6:36

Be you therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.

Luke 6:46

And why call you me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

Ephesians 6:2

Honor your father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise;

Deuteronomy 1:31

And in the wilderness, where you have seen how that the LORD your God bore you, as a man does bear his son, in all the way that you went, until you came into this place.

Deuteronomy 32:6

Do you thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he your father that has bought you? has he not made you, and established you?

Deuteronomy 5:16

Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you; that your days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with you, in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

1 Peter 1:17

And if you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judges according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear: