Malachi 2:8

English Standard Version 2016

But you have turned aside from the way. You have caused many to stumble by your instruction. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the Lord of hosts,

Cross References

Nehemiah 13:29

Remember them, O my God, because they have desecrated the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.

Jeremiah 18:15

But my people have forgotten me; they make offerings to false gods; they made them stumble in their ways, in the ancient roads, and to walk into side roads, not the highway,

Malachi 2:5

My covenant with him was one of life and peace, and I gave them to him. It was a covenant of fear, and he feared me. He stood in awe of my name.

Ezekiel 44:10

But the Levites who went far from me, going astray from me after their idols when Israel went astray, shall bear their punishment.

Jeremiah 17:5

Thus says the Lord: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the Lord.

Isaiah 30:11

leave the way, turn aside from the path, let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel.”

1 Samuel 2:17

Thus the sin of the young men was very great in the sight of the Lord, for the men treated the offering of the Lord with contempt.

Hebrews 3:12

Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.

Romans 14:21

It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.

Isaiah 59:13

transgressing, and denying the Lord, and turning back from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart lying words.

Isaiah 9:16

for those who guide this people have been leading them astray, and those who are guided by them are swallowed up.

Psalm 119:102

I do not turn aside from your rules, for you have taught me.

Psalm 18:21

For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

1 Samuel 2:30

Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me forever,’ but now the Lord declares: ‘Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

1 Samuel 2:24

No, my sons; it is no good report that I hear the people of the Lord spreading abroad.

Leviticus 21:15

that he may not profane his offspring among his people, for I am the Lord who sanctifies him.”

Jeremiah 17:13

O Lord, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be put to shame; those who turn away from you shall be written in the earth, for they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living water.

Numbers 25:12

Therefore say, ‘Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace,

Numbers 25:13

and it shall be to him and to his descendants after him the covenant of a perpetual priesthood, because he was jealous for his God and made atonement for the people of Israel.’”

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not say, ‘Where is the Lord?’ Those who handle the law did not know me; the shepherds transgressed against me; the prophets prophesied by Baal and went after things that do not profit.

Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

Zephaniah 3:4

Her prophets are fickle, treacherous men; her priests profane what is holy; they do violence to the law.

2 Kings 16:11

And Uriah the priest built the altar; in accordance with all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so Uriah the priest made it, before King Ahaz arrived from Damascus.

Proverbs 12:8

A man is commended according to his good sense, but one of twisted mind is despised.

Ezekiel 22:26

Her priests have done violence to my law and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean, and they have disregarded my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.

Ezekiel 44:7

in admitting foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, to be in my sanctuary, profaning my temple, when you offer to me my food, the fat and the blood. You have broken my covenant, in addition to all your abominations.

Ezekiel 44:12

Because they ministered to them before their idols and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I have sworn concerning them, declares the Lord God, and they shall bear their punishment.

Malachi 1:6

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. But you say, ‘How have we despised your name?’