Malachi 2:8

Modern English Version

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.

Cross References

2 Kings 16:11

Uriah the priest built an altar according to all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus. Thus Uriah the priest worked until King Ahaz came from Damascus.

Nehemiah 13:29

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

Psalm 119:102

I have not departed from Your judgments, 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.

Proverbs 12:8

According to his wisdom will a man be praised, but the perverse of heart will be despised.

Isaiah 30:11

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

Isaiah 59:13

transgressing, and lying against the Lord, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

Isaiah 9:16

For the leaders of this people cause them to err, and those who are led by them are destroyed.

Jeremiah 17:13

O  Lord, the Hope of Israel, all who forsake You will be ashamed. “Those who forsake Me will be written in the dust, because they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living waters.”

Jeremiah 17:5

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

Jeremiah 18:15

Because My people have forgotten Me, they have burned incense to vain gods and they have stumbled in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in bypaths, not on a highway,

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not say, “Where is the Lord?” And those who handle the law did not know Me; the shepherds also transgressed against Me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal and walked after things that do not profit.

Ezekiel 22:26

Her priests have violated My law and have profaned My holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and profane, nor have they shown the difference between the unclean and the clean, and they have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

Ezekiel 44:10

But the Levites who have gone far from Me when Israel went astray, who went astray away from Me after their idols, they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity.

Ezekiel 44:12

Because they ministered to them before their idols and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity, therefore I have lifted up My hand against them, says the Lord God, that they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity.

Ezekiel 44:7

you brought foreigners into My sanctuary, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in My sanctuary to pollute it, even My house, when you offered My food, the fat and the blood, for they have broken My covenant because of all your abominations.

Hosea 4:6

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

Leviticus 21:15

so that he does not defile his offspring among his people, for I am the Lord who sanctifies him.

Zephaniah 3:4

Her prophets are reckless, treacherous men; her priests have profaned the sanctuary and done violence to the law.

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 2:5

My covenant with him was for life and peace, and I gave them to him. With awe he feared Me, and he was reverent before My name.

Numbers 25:12

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

Numbers 25:13

And it will be for him and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was zealous for his God and made an atonement for the Israelites.’ ”

Romans 14:21

It is good neither to eat meat nor drink wine, nor do anything whereby your brother stumbles or is offended or is made weak.

Hebrews 3:12

Be attentive, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, and you depart from the living God.

1 Samuel 2:17

Therefore the sin of the young men was very great before the Lord. For the men treated the offering of the Lord with contempt.

1 Samuel 2:24

No, my sons! Truly, it is not a good report that I hear the people of the Lord spreading.

1 Samuel 2:30

“Therefore the Lord God of Israel says, ‘I surely said that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before Me forever,’ but now the Lord says, ‘Far be it from Me to do so, for those who honor Me, I will honor, and those that despise Me will be humbled.