Malachi 2:4

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

I am telling you this, so I can continue to keep my agreement with your ancestor Levi.

Cross References

1 Kings 22:25

Micaiah answered, “You'll find out on the day you have to hide in the back room of some house.”

Nehemiah 13:29

I pray that God will punish them for breaking their priestly vows and disgracing the Levi tribe.

Isaiah 26:11

Your hand is raised and ready to punish them, but they don't see it. Put them to shame! Show how much you care for us and throw them into the fire intended for your enemies.

Isaiah 27:9

There's only one-way that Israel's sin and guilt can be completely forgiven: they must crush the stones of every pagan altar and place of worship.

Jeremiah 28:9

Now you are saying we will have peace. We will just have to wait and see if that is really what the LORD has said.

Ezekiel 33:33

Soon they will be punished, just as you warned, and they will know that a prophet has been among them.

Ezekiel 38:23

I will do these things to show the world that I, the LORD, am holy.

Ezekiel 44:7

My temple has been disgraced, because you have let godless, stubborn foreigners come here when sacrifices are being offered to me. You have sinned and have broken our solemn agreement.

Malachi 3:1

I, the LORD All-Powerful, will send my messenger to prepare the way for me. Then suddenly the Lord you are looking for will appear in his temple. The messenger you desire is coming with my promise, and he is on his way.

Numbers 18:2

The Levites are your relatives and are here to help you in your service at the tent.

Numbers 18:21

Ten per cent of the Israelites' crops and one out of every ten of their newborn animals belong to me. But I am giving all this to the Levites as their pay for the work they do at the sacred tent.

Numbers 25:12

But instead of punishing them, I forgave them. So because of the loyalty that Phinehas showed, I solemnly promise that he and his descendants will always be my priests.”

Numbers 3:11

Moses, I have chosen these Levites from all Israel, and they will belong to me in a special way. When I killed the firstborn sons of the Egyptians, I decided that the firstborn sons in every Israelite family and the firstborn males of their flocks and herds would be mine. But now I accept these Levites in place of the firstborn sons of the Israelites.

Numbers 3:45

“The Levites will belong to me and will take the place of the firstborn sons; their livestock will take the place of the Israelites' firstborn livestock.

Matthew 3:12

His threshing fork is in his hand, and he is ready to separate the wheat from the husks. He will store the wheat in a barn and burn the husks in a fire that never goes out.

Luke 10:11

“We are shaking the dust from our feet as a warning to you. And you can be sure that God's kingdom will soon be here!”

John 15:2

He cuts away every branch of mine that doesn't produce fruit. But he trims clean every branch that does produce fruit, so that it will produce even more fruit.