Malachi 1:9

Modern English Version

But now entreat God’s favor, that He may be gracious to us. With such offerings from your hands, will He accept you favorably? says the Lord of Hosts.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 30:27

Then the priests and Levites went out and blessed the people, and their voices were heard. And their prayers came up to His holy habitation in the heavens.

Exodus 32:11

But Moses sought the favor of the Lord his God, and said, “Lord, why does Your wrath burn against Your people, whom You have brought forth from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

Jeremiah 26:19

Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Did he not fear the Lord and entreat the Lord, and the Lord relented of the disaster which He had pronounced against them? Thus we might procure great evil against ourselves.”

Jeremiah 27:18

But if they are prophets, and if the word of the Lord is with them, let them now make intercession to the Lord of Hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of the Lord and in the house of the king of Judah and in Jerusalem not go to Babylon.

Lamentations 2:19

Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift your hands to Him for the lives of your young children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.

Joel 2:12

Yet even now, declares the Lord, return to Me with all your heart, and with fasting and with weeping and with mourning.

Joel 2:17

Between the temple porch and the altar, let the priests, ministers of the Lord, weep and say, “Have pity upon Your people, and do not make Your inheritance a disgrace, a mockery among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’ ”

Amos 5:22

Though you offer Me burnt offerings or your grain offerings, I will not accept them, nor will I regard the offerings of your fattened animals.

John 9:31

We know that God does not listen to sinners. But if anyone is a worshipper of God and does His will, He hears him.

Romans 2:11

for there is no partiality with God.

1 Peter 1:17

And if you address as Father the One who impartially judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your sojourning.