Malachi 2:8

Catholic Public Domain Version

But you have withdrawn from the way, and you have scandalized very many in the law. You have nullified the covenant of Levi, says the Lord of hosts.

Cross References

2 Kings 16:11

And Uriah, the priest, constructed an altar in accord with all that king Ahaz had commanded from Damascus. Uriah, the priest, did so, until king Ahaz arrived from Damascus.

Nehemiah 13:29

O Lord, my God, remember against those who defile the priesthood and the law of the priests and the Levites!

Proverbs 12:8

A man will be known by his doctrine. But whoever is vain and heartless will suffer contempt.

Isaiah 30:11

Take me from the way. Avert me from the path. Let the Holy One of Israel cease from before our face."

Isaiah 59:13

sinning and lying against the Lord. And we have turned away, not so as to go after our God, and so that we were speaking calumny and transgression. We have conceived, and spoken from the heart, words of falsehood.

Isaiah 9:16

And those who deceitfully praise this people, and those who are praised, will be thrown down violently.

Jeremiah 17:13

O Lord, Hope of Israel: all who forsake you will be confounded. Those who withdraw from you will be written into the earth. For they have abandoned the Lord, the Source of living waters.

Jeremiah 17:5

Thus says the Lord: "Cursed is a man who trusts in man, and who establishes what is flesh as his right arm, and whose heart withdraws from the Lord.

Jeremiah 18:15

Yet my people have forgotten me, offering useless libations, and stumbling in their ways, in the paths of the world, so that they walk by these on an unmarked route.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests have not sad: 'Where is the Lord?' And those who held the law did not know me. And the pastors betrayed me. And the prophets prophesied in Baal and followed idols.

Ezekiel 22:26

Her priests have despised my law, and they have defiled my sanctuaries. They have held no distinction between holy and profane. And they have not understood the difference between defiled and clean. And they have averted their eyes from my Sabbaths. And I was profaned in their midst.

Ezekiel 44:10

And as for the Levites, they have withdrawn far away from me, in the errors of the sons of Israel, and they have gone astray from me after their idols, and they have borne their iniquity.

Ezekiel 44:12

But because they ministered to them in the sight their idols, and they became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, for this reason, I have lifted up my hand against them, says the Lord God, and they will bear their iniquity.

Ezekiel 44:7

For you bring in foreign sons, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, so that they may be in my sanctuary and may defile my house. And you offer my bread, the fat, and the blood, yet you have broken my covenant by all your wicked deeds.

Hosea 4:6

My people have become silent because they had no knowledge. Since you have rejected knowledge, I will drive you away; you do not perform the duties of the priesthood for me, and you have forgotten the law of your God, and so I will forget your sons.

Leviticus 21:15

He shall not mingle the stock of his family with the common people of his nation. For I am the Lord, who sanctifies him.

Zephaniah 3:4

Her prophets are crazed; men without faith. Her priests have polluted what is holy; they have acted unjustly against the law.

Malachi 1:6

The son honors the father, and the servant his master. If, therefore, I am Father, where is my honor? And if I am Master, where is my fear? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. And you have said, "In what way, have we despised your name?"

Malachi 2:5

My covenant was with him for life and peace. And I gave him fear, and he feared me, and he was afraid before the face of my name.

Numbers 25:12

Because of this, say to him: Behold, I give to him the peace of my covenant.

Numbers 25:13

And the covenant of the everlasting priesthood shall be as much for him as for his offspring. For he was zealous on behalf of his God, and he has made expiation for the wickedness of the sons of Israel."

Romans 14:21

It is good to refrain from eating meat and from drinking wine, and from anything by which your brother is offended, or led astray, or weakened.

Hebrews 3:12

Be cautious, brothers, lest perhaps there may be, in any of you, an evil heart of unbelief, turning aside from the living God.

1 Samuel 2:17

Therefore, the sin of the servants was exceedingly great before the Lord. For they drew men away from the sacrifice of the Lord.

1 Samuel 2:24

My sons, do not be willing. For it is no good report that I am hearing, so that you would cause the people of the Lord to transgress.

1 Samuel 2:30

Because of this, the Lord God of Israel says: I have spoken clearly, so that your house, and the house of your father, may minister in my sight, even forever. But now the Lord says: May this be far from me. Instead, whoever will have glorified me, I will glorify him. But whoever despises me, they will be despised.