Malachi 2:8

New English Translation

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.

Cross References

2 Kings 16:11

Uriah the priest built an altar in conformity to the plans King Ahaz had sent from Damascus. Uriah the priest finished it before King Ahaz arrived back from Damascus.

Nehemiah 13:29

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

Psalm 119:102

I do not turn aside from your regulations, for you teach me.

Psalm 18:21

For I have obeyed the Lord’s commands; I have not rebelled against my God.

Proverbs 12:8

A person is praised in accordance with his wisdom, but the one who has a twisted mind is despised.

Isaiah 30:11

Turn aside from the way, stray off the path. Remove from our presence the Holy One of Israel.”

Isaiah 59:13

We have rebelled and tried to deceive the Lord; we turned back from following our God. We stir up oppression and rebellion; we tell lies we concocted in our minds.

Isaiah 9:16

The leaders of this nation were misleading people, and the people being led were destroyed.

Jeremiah 17:13

You are the one in whom Israel may find hope. All who leave you will suffer shame. Those who turn away from you will be consigned to the nether world. For they have rejected you, the Lord, the fountain of life.

Jeremiah 17:5

The Lord says, “I will put a curse on people who trust in mere human beings, who depend on mere flesh and blood for their strength, and whose hearts have turned away from the Lord.

Jeremiah 18:15

Yet my people have forgotten me and offered sacrifices to worthless idols! This makes them stumble along in the way they live and leave the old reliable path of their fathers. They have left them to walk in bypaths, in roads that are not smooth and level.

Jeremiah 2:8

Your priests did not ask, ‘Where is the Lord?’ Those responsible for teaching my law did not really know me. Your rulers rebelled against me. Your prophets prophesied in the name of the god Baal. They all worshiped idols that could not help them.

Ezekiel 22:26

Her priests abuse my law and have desecrated my holy things. They do not distinguish between the holy and the profane, or recognize any distinction between the unclean and the clean. They ignore my Sabbaths and I am profaned in their midst.

Ezekiel 44:10

“‘But the Levites who went far from me, straying off from me after their idols when Israel went astray, will be responsible for their sin.

Ezekiel 44:12

Because they used to minister to them before their idols, and became a sinful obstacle to the house of Israel, consequently I have made a vow concerning them, declares the sovereign Lord, that they will be responsible for their sin.

Ezekiel 44:7

When you bring foreigners, those uncircumcised in heart and in flesh, into my sanctuary, you desecrate it – even my house – when you offer my food, the fat and the blood. You have broken my covenant by all your abominable practices.

Hosea 4:6

You have destroyed my people by failing to acknowledge me! Because you refuse to acknowledge me, I will reject you as my priests. Because you reject the law of your God, I will reject your descendants.

Leviticus 21:15

He must not profane his children among his people, for I am the Lord who sanctifies him.’”

Zephaniah 3:4

Her prophets are proud; they are deceitful men. Her priests defile what is holy; they break God’s laws.

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 2:5

“My covenant with him was designed to bring life and peace. I gave its statutes to him to fill him with awe, and he indeed revered me and stood in awe before me.

Numbers 25:12

Therefore, announce: ‘I am going to give to him my covenant of peace.

Numbers 25:13

So it will be to him and his descendants after him a covenant of a permanent priesthood, because he has been zealous for his God, and has made atonement for the Israelites.’”

Romans 14:21

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

Hebrews 3:12

See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has an evil, unbelieving heart that forsakes the living God.

1 Samuel 2:17

The sin of these young men was very great in the Lord’s sight, for they treated the Lord’s offering with contempt.

1 Samuel 2:24

This ought not to be, my sons! For the report that I hear circulating among the Lord’s people is not good.

1 Samuel 2:30

Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘I really did say that your house and your ancestor’s house would serve me forever.’ But now the Lord says, ‘May it never be! For I will honor those who honor me, but those who despise me will be cursed!