Malachi 2:9

New American Bible - revised edition

I, therefore, have made you contemptible and base before all the people, For you do not keep my ways, but show partiality in your instruction.

Cross References

1 Kings 22:28

But Micaiah said, “If you return in safety, the Lord has not spoken through me.” (He also said, “Hear, O peoples, all of you.”) Ahab at Ramoth-gilead.

Job 32:21

I would not be partial to anyone, nor give flattering titles to any.

Proverbs 10:7

The memory of the just serves as blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.

Proverbs 12:8

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

Ezekiel 13:21

I will tear off your veils and deliver my people from your power, so that they shall never again be ensnared by your hands. Thus you shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 7:26

Disaster after disaster, rumor upon rumor. They keep seeking a vision from the prophet; instruction from the priest is missing, and counsel from the elders.

Micah 3:11

Its leaders render judgment for a bribe, the priests teach for pay, the prophets divine for money, While they rely on the Lord, saying, “Is not the Lord in the midst of us? No evil can come upon us!”

Nahum 3:6

I will cast filth upon you, disgrace you and make you a spectacle;

Malachi 2:3

I will rebuke your offspring; I will spread dung on your faces, Dung from your feasts, and will carry you to it.

Malachi 2:8

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.

Luke 10:29

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

Luke 11:42

Woe to you Pharisees! You pay tithes of mint and of rue and of every garden herb, but you pay no attention to judgment and to love for God. These you should have done, without overlooking the others.

Galatians 2:6

But from those who were reputed to be important (what they once were makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality)—those of repute made me add nothing.

Deuteronomy 1:17

In rendering judgment, do not consider who a person is; give ear to the lowly and to the great alike, fearing no one, for the judgment is God’s. Any case that is too difficult for you bring to me and I will hear it.”

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.