Malachi 1:10

Lighthouse Bible 2006

Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nothing? neither do you kindle fire on my altar for nothing. I have no pleasure in you, says the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.

Cross References

2 Kings 12:6

But it was so, that in the twenty third year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the broken places of the house.

Proverbs 15:8

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

Jeremiah 14:10

Thus says the LORD to this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not restrained their feet, therefore the LORD does not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.

Jeremiah 14:12

When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and a food offering, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.

Jeremiah 6:13

For from the least of them even to the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even to the priest every one deals falsely.

Jeremiah 6:20

For what purpose does incense come to me from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet to me.

Jeremiah 8:10

Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their fields to those who shall inherit them: for every one from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even to the priest every one deals falsely.

Hosea 5:6

They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find him; he has withdrawn himself from them.

Micah 3:11

Their heads judge for reward, and their priests teach for wages, and their prophets divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? no evil can come upon us.

Malachi 1:13

You said also, Behold, what a weariness it is! and you have sniffed at it, says the LORD of hosts; and you brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus you brought an offering: should I accept this from your hand? says the LORD.

Malachi 2:12

The LORD will cut off the man who does this, the teacher and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him who offers an offering unto the LORD of hosts.

Malachi 2:13

And this have you done again, covering the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, so that he does not regard the offering any more, or receive it with good will at your hand.

John 10:12

But he who is a hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep, and flees: and the wolf catches them, and scatters the sheep.

1 Corinthians 9:13

Do you not know that those who minister around holy things live from the things of the temple? And those who serve at the altar have a share of the altar?

Philippians 2:21

For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s.

Hebrews 10:38

Now the just shall live by faith: but if anyone draws back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

1 Peter 5:2

Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by compulsion, but willingly; not for unjust gain, but eagerly;