Malachi 2:9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

so I make you despised and humbled before all the people, inasmuch as you have not kept my ways but have shown partiality in your instruction.

Cross References

1 Kings 22:28

Micaiah said, “If you return in peace, the Lord has not spoken by me.” And he said, “Hear, you peoples, all of you!”

Job 32:21

I will not show partiality to any person or use flattery toward anyone.

Proverbs 10:7

The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.

Proverbs 12:8

One is commended for good sense, but a perverse mind is despised.

Ezekiel 13:21

I will tear off your veils and save my people from your hands; they shall no longer be prey in your hands, and you shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 7:26

Disaster comes upon disaster; rumor follows rumor; they shall keep seeking a vision from the prophet; instruction shall perish from the priest and counsel from the elders.

Micah 3:11

Its rulers give judgment for a bribe; its priests teach for a price; its prophets give oracles for money; yet they lean upon the Lord and say, “Surely the Lord is with us! No harm shall come upon us.”

Nahum 3:6

I will throw filth at you and treat you with contempt and make you a spectacle.

Malachi 2:3

I will rebuke your offspring and spread dung on your faces, the dung of your offerings, and I will put you out of my presence.

Malachi 2:8

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

Luke 10:29

But wanting to vindicate himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

Luke 11:42

“But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and herbs of all kinds and neglect justice and the love of God; it is these you ought to have practiced, without neglecting the others.

Galatians 2:6

And from those who were supposed to be acknowledged leaders (what they actually were makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality)—those leaders contributed nothing to me.

Deuteronomy 1:17

You must not be partial in judging: hear out the small and the great alike; you shall not be intimidated by anyone, for the judgment is God’s. Any case that is too hard for you, bring to me, and I will hear it.’

1 Samuel 2:30

Therefore the Lord the God of Israel declares: I promised that your family and the family of your ancestor should go in and out before me forever, but now the Lord declares: Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be treated with contempt.