Malachi 2:10

New English Translation

Do we not all have one father? Did not one God create us? Why do we betray one another, in this way making light of the covenant of our ancestors?

Cross References

Nehemiah 13:29

Please remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, the covenant of the priesthood, and the Levites.

Job 31:15

Did not the one who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us in the womb?

Psalm 100:3

Acknowledge that the Lord is God! He made us and we belong to him; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.

Exodus 19:4

‘You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt and how I lifted you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself.

Exodus 19:5

And now, if you will diligently listen to me and keep my covenant, then you will be my special possession out of all the nations, for all the earth is mine,

Exodus 24:3

Moses came and told the people all the Lord’s words and all the decisions. All the people answered together, “We are willing to do all the words that the Lord has said,”

Exodus 24:7

He took the Book of the Covenant and read it aloud to the people, and they said, “We are willing to do and obey all that the Lord has spoken.”

Isaiah 43:1

Now, this is what the Lord says, the one who created you, O Jacob, and formed you, O Israel: “Don’t be afraid, for I will protect you. I call you by name, you are mine.

Isaiah 43:15

I am the Lord, your Holy One, the one who created Israel, your king.”

Isaiah 43:7

everyone who belongs to me, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed – yes, whom I made!

Isaiah 44:2

This is what the Lord, the one who made you, says – the one who formed you in the womb and helps you: “Don’t be afraid, my servant Jacob, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen!

Isaiah 51:2

Look at Abraham, your father, and Sarah, who gave you birth. When I summoned him, he was a lone individual, but I blessed him and gave him numerous descendants.

Isaiah 63:16

For you are our father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not recognize us. You, Lord, are our father; you have been called our protector from ancient times.

Isaiah 64:7

No one invokes your name, or makes an effort to take hold of you. For you have rejected us and handed us over to our own sins.

Isaiah 64:8

Yet, Lord, you are our father. We are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the product of your labor.

Jeremiah 31:9

They will come back shedding tears of contrition. I will bring them back praying prayers of repentance. I will lead them besides streams of water, along smooth paths where they will never stumble. I will do this because I am Israel’s father; Ephraim is my firstborn son.’”

Ezekiel 33:24

“Son of man, the ones living in these ruins in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, yet he possessed the land, but we are many; surely the land has been given to us for a possession.’

Malachi 1:6

“A son naturally honors his father and a slave respects his master. If I am your father, where is my honor? If I am your master, where is my respect? The Lord who rules over all asks you this, you priests who make light of my name! But you reply, ‘How have we made light of your name?’

Malachi 2:11

Judah has become disloyal, and unspeakable sins have been committed in Israel and Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the holy things that the Lord loves and has turned to a foreign god!

Malachi 2:8

You, however, have turned from the way. You have caused many to violate the law; you have corrupted the covenant with Levi,” says the Lord who rules over all.

Matthew 10:21

“Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against parents and have them put to death.

Matthew 22:16

They sent to him their disciples along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are truthful, and teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. You do not court anyone’s favor because you show no partiality.

Matthew 3:9

and don’t think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

Luke 1:73

the oath that he swore to our ancestor Abraham. This oath grants

Luke 3:8

Therefore produce fruit that proves your repentance, and don’t begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

John 8:39

They answered him, “Abraham is our father!” Jesus replied, “If you are Abraham’s children, you would be doing the deeds of Abraham.

John 8:41

You people are doing the deeds of your father.” Then they said to Jesus, “We were not born as a result of immorality! We have only one Father, God himself.”

John 8:53

You aren’t greater than our father Abraham who died, are you? And the prophets died too! Who do you claim to be?”

John 8:56

Your father Abraham was overjoyed to see my day, and he saw it and was glad.”

Acts 17:24

The God who made the world and everything in it, who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands,

Acts 17:25

nor is he served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives life and breath and everything to everyone.

Acts 17:26

From one man he made every nation of the human race to inhabit the entire earth, determining their set times and the fixed limits of the places where they would live,

Acts 7:2

So he replied, “Brothers and fathers, listen to me. The God of glory appeared to our forefather Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran,

Acts 7:26

The next day Moses saw two men fighting, and tried to make peace between them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers; why are you hurting one another?’

Romans 4:1

What then shall we say that Abraham, our ancestor according to the flesh, has discovered regarding this matter?

Romans 9:10

Not only that, but when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our ancestor Isaac –

1 Corinthians 8:6

yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we live, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we live.

Ephesians 4:25

Therefore, having laid aside falsehood, each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.

Ephesians 4:6

one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

1 Thessalonians 4:6

In this matter no one should violate the rights of his brother or take advantage of him, because the Lord is the avenger in all these cases, as we also told you earlier and warned you solemnly.

Hebrews 12:9

Besides, we have experienced discipline from our earthly fathers and we respected them; shall we not submit ourselves all the more to the Father of spirits and receive life?

Joshua 24:3

but I took your father Abraham from beyond the Euphrates and brought him into the entire land of Canaan. I made his descendants numerous; I gave him Isaac,