Malachi 2:8

New American Bible - revised edition

But you have turned aside from the way, and have caused many to stumble by your instruction; You have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the Lord of hosts.

Cross References

2 Kings 16:11

Uriah the priest built an altar according to the plans which King Ahaz sent him from Damascus, and had it completed by the time King Ahaz returned from Damascus.

Nehemiah 13:29

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

Psalm 119:102

From your judgments I do not turn, for you have instructed me.

Psalm 18:21

The Lord acknowledged my righteousness, rewarded my clean hands.

Proverbs 12:8

For their good sense people are praised, but the perverse of heart are despised.

Isaiah 30:11

Turn aside from the way! Get out of the path! Let us hear no more of the Holy One of Israel!”

Isaiah 59:13

Transgressing, and denying the Lord, turning back from following our God, Planning fraud and treachery, uttering lying words conceived in the heart.

Isaiah 9:16

That is why the Lord does not spare their young men, and their orphans and widows he does not pity; For they are totally impious and wicked, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this, his wrath is not turned back, his hand is still outstretched!

Jeremiah 17:13

O Hope of Israel, Lord! all who forsake you shall be put to shame; The rebels shall be enrolled in the netherworld; they have forsaken the Lord, source of living waters.

Jeremiah 17:5

Thus says the Lord: Cursed is the man who trusts in human beings, who makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the Lord.

Jeremiah 18:15

Yet my people have forgotten me: they offer incense in vain. They stumble off their paths, the ways of old, Traveling on bypaths, not the beaten track.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not ask, “Where is the Lord?” The experts in the law did not know me: the shepherds rebelled against me. The prophets prophesied by Baal, and went after useless idols.

Ezekiel 22:26

Her priests violate my law and desecrate what I consider holy; they do not distinguish between holy and common, nor teach the difference between unclean and clean; they pay no attention to my sabbaths, so that I have been desecrated in their midst.

Ezekiel 44:10

As for the Levites who went far away from me when Israel strayed from me after their idols, they will bear the consequences of their sin.

Ezekiel 44:12

Because they used to serve them before their idols, thus becoming a stumbling block to the house of Israel, therefore I have sworn an oath against them, says the Lord God, and they will bear the consequences of their sin.

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.

Hosea 4:6

My people are ruined for lack of knowledge! Since you have rejected knowledge, I will reject you from serving as my priest; Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.

Leviticus 21:15

so that he not profane his offspring among his kindred. I, the Lord, make him holy. Priestly Blemishes.

Zephaniah 3:4

Its prophets are reckless, treacherous people; Its priests profane what is holy, and do violence to the law.

Malachi 1:6

A son honors his father, and a servant fears his master; If, then, I am a father, where is the honor due to me? And if I am a master, where is the fear due to me? So says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who disdain my name. But you ask, “How have we disdained your name?”

Malachi 2:5

My covenant with him was the life and peace which I gave him, and the fear he had for me, standing in awe of my name.

Numbers 25:12

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

Numbers 25:13

which shall be for him and for his descendants after him the covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was jealous on behalf of his God and thus made expiation for the Israelites.

Romans 14:21

it is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.

Hebrews 3:12

Take care, brothers, that none of you may have an evil and unfaithful heart, so as to forsake the living God.

1 Samuel 2:17

Thus the young men sinned grievously in the presence of the Lord, treating the offerings to the Lord with disdain. The Lord Rewards Hannah.

1 Samuel 2:24

Stop this, my sons! The report that I hear the Lord’s people spreading is not good.

1 Samuel 2:30

This, therefore, is the oracle of the Lord, the God of Israel: I said in the past that your family and your father’s house should minister in my presence forever. But now—oracle of the Lord: Far be it from me! I will honor those who honor me, but those who despise me shall be cursed.