Malachi 1:2

New American Bible - revised edition

I love you, says the Lord; but you say, “How do you love us?”

Cross References

Genesis 25:23

and the Lord answered her: Two nations are in your womb, two peoples are separating while still within you; But one will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.

Genesis 25:25

The first to emerge was reddish, and his whole body was like a hairy mantle; so they named him Esau.

Genesis 25:26

Next his brother came out, gripping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when they were born.

Genesis 27:33

Isaac trembled greatly. “Who was it, then,” he asked, “that hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it all just before you came, and I blessed him. Now he is blessed!”

Genesis 48:4

he said, ‘I will make you fertile and multiply you and make you into an assembly of peoples, and I will give this land to your descendants after you as a permanent possession.’

1 Kings 10:9

Blessed be the Lord, your God, who has been pleased to place you on the throne of Israel. In his enduring love for Israel, the Lord has made you king to carry out judgment and justice.”

2 Kings 3:8

He said, “By what route shall we attack?” and the other said, “By way of the wilderness of Edom.”

Isaiah 43:4

Because you are precious in my eyes and honored, and I love you, I give people in return for you and nations in exchange for your life.

Isaiah 63:1

Who is this that comes from Edom, in crimsoned garments, from Bozrah? Who is this, glorious in his apparel, striding in the greatness of his strength? “It is I, I who announce vindication, mighty to save.”

Jeremiah 2:31

You people of this generation, consider the word of the Lord: Have I become a wilderness to Israel, a land of gloom? Why then do my people say, “We have moved on, we will not come to you any more”?

Jeremiah 2:5

thus says the Lord: What fault did your ancestors find in me that they withdrew from me, Went after emptiness, and became empty themselves?

Jeremiah 31:3

from afar the Lord appears: With age-old love I have loved you; so I have kept my mercy toward you.

Amos 1:11

Thus says the Lord: For three crimes of Edom, and now four— I will not take it back— Because he pursued his brother with the sword, suppressing all pity, Persisting in his anger, his wrath raging without end,

Malachi 2:17

You have wearied the Lord with your words, yet you say, “How have we wearied him?” By saying, “All evildoers are good in the sight of the Lord, And he is pleased with them,” or “Where is the just God?”

Luke 10:29

But because he wished to justify himself, he said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

John 15:12

This is my commandment: love one another as I love you.

Deuteronomy 10:15

Yet only on your ancestors did the Lord set his heart to love them. He chose you, their descendants, from all the peoples, as it is today.

Deuteronomy 23:5

because they would not come to meet you with food and water on your journey after you left Egypt, and because they hired Balaam, son of Beor, from Pethor in Aram Naharaim, to curse you.

Deuteronomy 33:3

Indeed, lover of the peoples, all the holy ones are at your side; They follow at your heels, carry out your decisions.

Deuteronomy 4:37

For love of your ancestors he chose their descendants after them and by his presence and great power led you out of Egypt,