Malachi 2:9

Easy To Read Version

“You don’t live the way I told you! You have not accepted my teachings! So I will make you become not important—people will not respect you!”

Cross References

1 Kings 22:28

Micaiah said loudly, “All you people listen to what I say! King Ahab, if you come home alive from that fight, then the Lord has not spoken through me.”

Job 32:21

I must treat Job the same\par as I would treat any other person.\par I will not try to say nice things to him.\par \{I will say what I must say.\}\par

Proverbs 10:7

Good people leave good memories. But evil people will soon be forgotten.

Proverbs 12:8

People praise a wise man. But people don’t respect a stupid person.

Ezekiel 13:21

And I will tear up those scarves, and save my people from your power. Those people will escape from your trap. And you will know that I am the Lord.

Micah 3:11

The judges in Jerusalem accept bribes\par to help them decide who wins in court.\par The priests in Jerusalem must be paid\par before they will teach the people.\par People must pay the prophets\par before they will look into the future.\par And then those leaders expect the Lord\par to help them. They say,\par “The Lord lives here with us.\par So nothing bad will happen to us.”\par

Nahum 3:6

I will throw dirty things on you.\par I will treat you in a hateful way.\par People will look at you and laugh.\par

Malachi 2:3

“Look, I will punish your descendants. During the holidays, you priests offer sacrifices to me. You take the dung and inside parts from the dead animals, and throw those parts away. But I will smear that dung on your faces, and you will be thrown away with it!

Malachi 2:8

\{The Lord said,\} “But you priests stopped following me! You used the teachings to make people do wrong. You ruined the Agreement with Levi!” The Lord All-Powerful said these things!

Luke 10:29

But the man wanted to show that the way he was living was right. So he said to Jesus, “But who are these other people I must love?”

Luke 11:42

But it will be bad for you Pharisees! You give God one-tenth of \{everything you own\}—even your mint, your rue, and every other little plant in your garden. But you forget to be fair to other people and to love God. These are the things you should do. And you should also continue to do those other things—\{like giving one-tenth\}.

Galatians 2:6

Those men who seemed to be important did not change the Good News {\cf2\super [12]} message I tell people. (It doesn’t matter to me if they were “important” or not. To God all men are the same.)

Deuteronomy 1:17

When you judge, you must not think that one person is more important than another person. You must judge every person the same. Don’t be afraid of anyone, because your decision is from God. But if there is a case too hard for you to judge, then bring it to me and I will judge it.’

1 Samuel 2:30

“The Lord God of Israel promised that your father’s family would serve him forever. But now the Lord says this, ‘That will never be! I will honor people who honor me. But bad things will happen to people who refuse to respect me.