Malachi 2:8

Modern King James Version

But you have turned out of the way; you have caused many to stumble at the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says Jehovah of Hosts.

Cross References

2 Kings 16:11

And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus. So Urijah the priest did until King Ahaz came in from Damascus.

Nehemiah 13:29

Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood and of 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 Jehovah, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

Proverbs 12:8

A man shall be praised according to his wisdom, but he who is of a perverse heart shall be despised.

Isaiah 30:11

go out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.

Isaiah 59:13

in transgressing and lying against Jehovah, and going away from our God, talking cruelty and revolt, conceiving and speaking from the heart words of falsehood.

Isaiah 9:16

For the leaders of this people led them astray; and their guided ones are swallowed up.

Jeremiah 17:13

O Jehovah, the Hope of Israel, all who forsake You shall be ashamed. Those who depart from Me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Jehovah, the Fountain of living waters.

Jeremiah 17:5

So says Jehovah, Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Jehovah.

Jeremiah 18:15

Because My people have forgotten Me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused themselves to stumble in their ways from the old paths, to walk in by-paths, not in the highway,

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not say, Where is Jehovah? And they who handle the Law did not know Me; the shepherds also rebelled against Me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things not profitable.

Ezekiel 22:26

Her priests have broken My Law and have defiled My holy things. They have put no difference between the holy and the common, and have not taught between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from My sabbaths, and I am defiled among them.

Ezekiel 44:10

But the Levites who have gone far away from Me, when Israel went astray; those who went astray from Me after their idols; they shall even bear 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 Jehovah, and they shall bear their iniquity.

Ezekiel 44:7

that you have brought strangers, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in My sanctuary, to profane it, even My house, when you offer My bread, the fat and the blood. And 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 also reject you from being priest to Me. Since you have forgotten the Law of your God, I will also forget your sons, even I.

Leviticus 21:15

And he shall not defile his seed among his people. For I, Jehovah, do sanctify him.

Zephaniah 3:4

Her prophets are proud, men of deceit; her priests have defiled the sanctuary; they have 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 Jehovah of Hosts to you, O priests who despise My name. And you say, In what way have we despised Your name?

Malachi 2:5

My covenant with him was life and peace, and I gave them to him for fear; and he feared Me, and he is awed before My name.

Numbers 25:12

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

Numbers 25:13

And he shall have it, and his seed after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the sons of Israel.

Romans 14:21

It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor anything by which your brother stumbles, or is offended, or is made weak.

Hebrews 3:12

Take heed, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

1 Samuel 2:17

And the sin of the young men was very great before Jehovah. For men despised the offering of Jehovah.

1 Samuel 2:24

No, my sons, for it is no good report that I hear. You make Jehovah's people to transgress.

1 Samuel 2:30

And Jehovah, the God of Israel says, I said indeed, Your house and the house of your father should walk before Me forever. But now Jehovah says, Be it far from Me! For those who honor Me I will honor, and those that think little of Me shall be lightly regarded.