Malachi 2:8

God's Word

“But you have turned from the ⌞correct⌟ path and caused many to stumble over my teachings. You have corrupted the promise made to Levi,” says the Lord of Armies.

Cross References

2 Kings 16:11

Urijah built an altar exactly like the model King Ahaz sent from Damascus. He finished it before Ahaz returned home from Damascus.

Nehemiah 13:29

⌞Nehemiah prayed,⌟ “Remember them, my God, because they have contaminated the priestly office and the promise  you made to the priests and Levites.”

Psalm 119:102

I have not neglected your regulations, because you have taught me.

Psalm 18:21

because I have kept the ways of the Lord and I have not wickedly turned away from my God,

Proverbs 12:8

A person will be praised based on his insight, but whoever has a twisted mind will be despised.

Isaiah 30:11

Get out of our way! Stop blocking our path! Get the Holy One of Israel out of our sight.’ ”

Isaiah 59:13

We have rebelled and denied the Lord. We have turned away from our God. We have spoken about oppression and revolt. We have conceived and uttered lies in our hearts.

Isaiah 9:16

Those who guide these people lead them astray. Those who are guided by them will be destroyed.

Jeremiah 17:13

O Lord, the Hope of Israel, all who abandon you will be put to shame. Those who turn away from you will be written in dust, because they abandon the Lord, the fountain of life-giving water.

Jeremiah 17:5

“This is what the Lord says: Cursed is the person who trusts humans, who makes flesh and blood his strength and whose heart turns away from the Lord.

Jeremiah 18:15

But my people have forgotten me. They burn incense as an offering to worthless idols, and they stumble along the way, on the ancient path. They go on side roads and not on major highways.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests didn’t ask, “Where is the Lord?” Those who deal with my teachings didn’t know me. The rulers rebelled against me. The prophets prophesied in the name of Baal and followed statues that couldn’t help them.

Ezekiel 22:26

Your priests violate my teachings and dishonor my holy things. They don’t distinguish between what is holy and what is unholy. They don’t teach the difference between what is clean and what is unclean. They ignore the days to worship me. So I am dishonored among the people.

Ezekiel 44:10

“ ‘Some Levites went far away from me when Israel wandered off to follow their idols. They must be punished for their sins.

Ezekiel 44:12

But they served the people by standing in front of their idols and by making Israel fall into sin. So I raised my hand and swore that they would be punished for their sins, declares the Lord.

Ezekiel 44:7

You brought godless foreigners  into my holy place. You dishonored my temple when you offered fat and blood to me. You rejected my promise so that you could do all your disgusting things.

Hosea 4:6

I will destroy my people because they are ignorant. You have refused to learn, so I will refuse to let you be my priests. You have forgotten the teachings of your God, so I will forget your children.

Leviticus 21:15

He must not dishonor his children among his people because I, the Lord, set him apart as holy.”

Zephaniah 3:4

Its prophets are reckless and unfaithful. Its priests contaminate what is holy. They violate the teachings.

Malachi 1:6

“This is what the Lord of Armies says: A son honors his father, and a servant honors his master. So if I am a father, where is my honor? If I am a master, where is my respect? You priests despise my name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised your name?’

Malachi 2:5

“I promised Levi life and peace. I gave them to him so that he would respect me. He respected me and stood in awe of my name.

Numbers 25:12

So tell Phinehas that I’m making a promise of peace to him.

Numbers 25:13

My promise is that he and his descendants will be priests permanently because he stood up for his God and he made peace with the Lord for the Israelites.”

Romans 14:21

The right thing to do is to avoid eating meat, drinking wine, or doing anything else that causes another Christian to have doubts.

Hebrews 3:12

Be careful, brothers and sisters, that none of you ever develop a wicked, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.

1 Samuel 2:17

The sin of Eli’s sons was a serious matter to the Lord, because these men were treating the offerings made to the Lord with contempt.

1 Samuel 2:24

Sons, the report that I hear the people of the Lord spreading isn’t good!

1 Samuel 2:30

“Therefore, the Lord God of Israel declares: I certainly thought that your family and your father’s family would always live in my presence. “But now the Lord declares: I promise that I will honor those who honor me, and those who despise me will be considered insignificant.