Malachi 2:10

Modern English Version

Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously with one another, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?

Cross References

Nehemiah 13:29

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

Job 31:15

Did not He who made me in the womb make him? And did not the same One fashion us in the womb?

Psalm 100:3

Know that the Lord, He is God! It is He who has made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.

Exodus 19:4

‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I lifted you up on eagles’ wings, and brought you to Myself.

Exodus 19:5

Now therefore, if you will faithfully obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My special possession out of all the nations, for all the earth is Mine.

Exodus 24:3

Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord and all the ordinances. Then all the people answered with one voice and said, “All the words which the Lord has said we will do.”

Exodus 24:7

He took the Book of the Covenant and read in the hearing of the people, and they said, “All that the Lord has said we will do, and we will be obedient.”

Isaiah 43:1

But now, thus says the Lord who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine.

Isaiah 43:15

I am the Lord, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.

Isaiah 43:7

even everyone who is called by My name, for I have created him for My glory; I have formed him, and I have made him.”

Isaiah 44:2

Thus says the Lord who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you: Do not fear, O Jacob, My servant, and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

Isaiah 51:2

Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who bore you; for I called him alone, and blessed him, and multiplied him.

Isaiah 63:16

For You are our Father, though Abraham is ignorant of us and Israel does not recognize us. You, O  Lord, are our Father, our Redeemer; Your name is from everlasting.

Isaiah 64:7

There is no one who calls on Your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of You; for You have hidden Your face from us and have consumed us because of our iniquities.

Isaiah 64:8

But now, O  Lord, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are our potter; and we all are the work of Your hand.

Jeremiah 31:9

They will come with weeping, and with supplications I will lead them. I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble. For I am a Father to Israel, and Ephraim is My firstborn.

Ezekiel 33:24

Son of man, those who inhabit these wastes in the land of Israel are saying, “Abraham was one, yet he inherited the land. But to us who are many, the land has been given for an inheritance.”

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?”

Malachi 2:11

Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination has been committed in Israel and Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the Lord, which He loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

Malachi 2:8

But you have departed from the way. You have caused many to stumble at the law. You have violated the covenant of Levi, says the Lord of Hosts.

Matthew 10:21

“The brother will deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child. And the children will rise up against their parents and cause them to be put to death.

Matthew 22:16

They sent their disciples to Him with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that You are truthful and teach the way of God truthfully, and are swayed by no one. For You do not regard the person of men.

Matthew 3:9

and do not think to say within yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I say to you that God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham.

Luke 1:73

the oath which He swore to our father Abraham,

Luke 3:8

Therefore bear fruit worthy of repentance, and do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I say to you that God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham.

John 8:39

They answered Him, “Abraham is our father.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham.

John 8:41

You are doing the works of your father.” Then they said to Him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father: God.”

John 8:53

Are You greater than our father Abraham, who died? The prophets are dead! Who do You make Yourself out to be?”

John 8:56

Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day. He saw it and was glad.”

Acts 17:24

“God who made the world and all things in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by hands.

Acts 17:25

Nor is He served by men’s hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives all men life and breath and all things.

Acts 17:26

He has made from one blood every nation of men to live on the entire surface of the earth, having appointed fixed times and the boundaries of their habitation,

Acts 7:2

He said, “Brothers and fathers, listen! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Harran,

Acts 7:26

On the next day he appeared to them as they fought and tried to reconcile them in peace, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why do you wrong each other?’

Romans 4:1

What then shall we say that Abraham, our father according to the flesh, has found?

Romans 9:10

Not only that, but Rebekah also had conceived by one man, our father Isaac.

1 Corinthians 8:6

But for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist. And there is one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.

Ephesians 4:25

Therefore, putting away lying, let every man speak truthfully with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.

Ephesians 4:6

one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

1 Thessalonians 4:6

and that no man take advantage of and defraud his brother in any matter, because the Lord is the avenger in all these things, as we also have forewarned you and testified.

Hebrews 12:9

Furthermore, we have had human fathers, and they corrected us, and we gave them reverence. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?

Joshua 24:3

I took your father Abraham from beyond the Euphrates, brought him through all the land of Canaan, and gave him many descendants. To him I gave Isaac.