Malachi 2:4

New American Bible - revised edition

You should know that I sent you this commandment so that my covenant with Levi might endure, says the Lord of hosts.

Cross References

1 Kings 22:25

Micaiah said, “You shall find out on the day you go into an inner room to hide.”

Nehemiah 13:29

Remember against them, my God, how they defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites!

Isaiah 26:11

Lord, your hand is raised high, but they do not perceive it; Let them be put to shame when they see your zeal for your people: let the fire prepared for your enemies consume them.

Isaiah 27:9

This, then, shall be the expiation of Jacob’s guilt, this the result of removing his sin: He shall pulverize all the stones of the altars like pieces of chalk; no asherahs or incense altars shall stand.

Jeremiah 28:9

But the prophet who prophesies peace is recognized as the prophet whom the Lord has truly sent only when his word comes to pass.

Ezekiel 33:33

But when it comes—and it is surely coming!—they shall know that there was a prophet among them.

Ezekiel 38:23

And so I will show my greatness and holiness and make myself known in the sight of many nations. Then they shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 44:7

You have admitted foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, into my sanctuary to profane it when you offered me food, the fat and blood. Thus you have broken my covenant by all your abominations.

Malachi 3:1

Now I am sending my messenger— he will prepare the way before me; And the lord whom you seek will come suddenly to his temple; The messenger of the covenant whom you desire— see, he is coming! says the Lord of hosts.

Numbers 18:2

You shall also present with you your kinsmen of the tribe of Levi, your ancestral tribe, that they may be joined to you and assist you, while you and your sons with you are in front of the tent of the covenant.

Numbers 18:21

To the Levites, however, I hereby assign all tithes in Israel as their heritage in recompense for the labor they perform, the labor pertaining to the tent of meeting.

Numbers 25:12

Announce, therefore, that I hereby give him my covenant of peace,

Numbers 3:11

The Lord said to Moses:

Numbers 3:12

I hereby take the Levites from the Israelites in place of every firstborn that opens the womb among the Israelites. The Levites, therefore, are mine,

Numbers 3:45

Take the Levites in place of all the firstborn of the Israelites, and the Levites’ cattle in place of their cattle, that the Levites may belong to me. I am the Lord.

Matthew 3:12

His winnowing fan is in his hand. He will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.” The Baptism of Jesus.

Luke 10:11

‘The dust of your town that clings to our feet, even that we shake off against you.’ Yet know this: the kingdom of God is at hand.

John 15:2

He takes away every branch in me that does not bear fruit, and every one that does he prunes so that it bears more fruit.