Malachi 3:7

New Century Version

Since the time of your ancestors, you have disobeyed my rules and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says the Lord All-Powerful. “But you ask, ‘How can we return?’

Cross References

Nehemiah 9:26

“But they were disobedient and turned against you and ignored your teachings. Your prophets warned them to come back to you, but they killed those prophets and spoke against you.

Isaiah 65:2

All day long I stood ready to accept people who turned against me, but the way they continue to live is not good; they do anything they want to do.

Jeremiah 16:11

“Then say to them: ‘This is because your ancestors quit following me,’ says the Lord. ‘And they followed other gods and served and worshiped them. Your ancestors left me and quit obeying my teaching.

Jeremiah 16:12

But you have done even more evil than your ancestors. You are very stubborn and do only what you want to do; you have not obeyed me.

Jeremiah 3:22

“Come back to me, you unfaithful children, and I will forgive you for being unfaithful.” “Yes, we will come to you, because you are the Lord our God.

Jeremiah 7:25

Since the day your ancestors left Egypt, I have sent my servants, the prophets, again and again to you.

Jeremiah 7:26

But your ancestors did not listen or pay attention to me. They were very stubborn and did more evil than their ancestors.’

Ezekiel 2:3

He said, “Human, I am sending you to the people of Israel. That nation has turned against me and broken away from me. They and their ancestors have sinned against me until this very day.

Ezekiel 20:13

“ ‘But in the desert Israel turned against me. They did not follow my rules, and they rejected my laws, by which people will live if they obey them. They dishonored my Sabbaths. Then I decided to pour out my anger against them and destroy them in the desert.

Ezekiel 20:21

“ ‘But the children turned against me. They did not live by my rules, nor were they careful to obey my laws, by which people will live if they obey them. They dishonored my Sabbaths. So I decided to pour out my anger against them in the desert.

Ezekiel 20:28

When I had brought them into the land I promised to give them, they saw every high hill and every leafy tree. There they offered their sacrifices to gods. They brought offerings that made me angry and burned their incense and poured out their drink offerings.

Ezekiel 20:8

“ ‘But they turned against me and refused to listen to me. They did not throw away the hateful idols which they saw and liked; they did not give up the idols of Egypt. Then I decided to pour out my anger against them while they were still in Egypt.

Hosea 14:1

Israel, return to the Lord your God, because your sins have made you fall.

Zechariah 1:3

So tell the people: This is what the Lord All-Powerful says: ‘Return to me, and I will return to you,’ says the Lord All-Powerful.

Malachi 1:6

The Lord All-Powerful says, “A son honors his father, and a servant honors his master.” I am a father, so why don’t you honor me? I am a master, so why don’t you respect me? You priests do not respect me. “But you ask, ‘How have we shown you disrespect?’

Malachi 3:13

The Lord says, “You have said terrible things about me. “But you ask, ‘What have we said about you?’

Matthew 23:27

“How terrible for you, teachers of the law and Pharisees! You are hypocrites! You are like tombs that are painted white. Outside, those tombs look fine, but inside, they are full of the bones of dead people and all kinds of unclean things.

Luke 15:16

The son was so hungry that he wanted to eat the pods the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.

Romans 10:21

But about Israel God says, “All day long I stood ready to accept people who disobey and are stubborn.”

Romans 10:3

Because they did not know the way that God makes people right with him, they tried to make themselves right in their own way. So they did not accept God’s way of making people right.

Romans 7:9

I was alive before I knew the law. But when the law’s command came to me, then sin began to live,

Deuteronomy 31:20

When I bring them into the land I promised to their ancestors, a fertile land, they will eat as much as they want and get fat. Then they will turn to other gods and serve them. They will reject me and break my Agreement.

James 4:8

Come near to God, and God will come near to you. You sinners, clean sin out of your lives. You who are trying to follow God and the world at the same time, make your thinking pure.