Malachi 2:8 Cross References - ACV

⁸ But ye are turned aside out of the way. Ye have caused many to stumble in the law. Ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says LORD of hosts.

¹⁵ And he shall not profane his seed among his people, for I am LORD who sanctifies him.

¹⁷ And the sin of the young men was very great before LORD, for the men despised the offering of LORD.

²⁴ No, my sons, for it is no good report that I hear. Ye make LORD's people to transgress.

³⁰ Therefore LORD, the God of Israel, says, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me forever, but now LORD says, Be it far from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

²⁹ Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.

²¹ For I have kept the ways of LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

¹⁰² I have not turned aside from thine ordinances, for thou have taught me.

¹⁶ For those who lead this people cause them to err, and those who are led by them are destroyed.

¹¹ Get you out of the way. Turn aside out of the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.

¹³ transgressing and denying LORD, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

⁵ Thus says LORD: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from LORD.

¹³ O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who forsake thee shall be put to shame. Those who depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken LORD, the fountain of living waters.

¹⁵ For my people have forgotten me. They have burned incense to false gods. And they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in bypaths, in a way not cast up,

¹¹ For both prophet and priest are profane. Yea, in my house I have found their wickedness, says LORD. ¹² Therefore their way shall be to them as slippery places in the darkness. They shall be driven on, and fall in it. For I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, says LORD. ¹³ And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria. They prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err. ¹⁴ In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing. They commit adultery, and walk in lies. And they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that none returns from his wickedness. They have all of them become to me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah. ¹⁵ Therefore thus says LORD of hosts concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall. For from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone forth into all the land.

¹⁰ But the Levites who went far from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, they shall bear their iniquity.

⁵ we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from thy precepts and from thine ordinances, ⁶ nor have we hearkened to thy servants the prophets, who spoke in thy name to our kings, our rulers, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

⁵ My covenant of life and peace was with him. And I gave them to him that he might fear, and he feared me, and stood in awe of my name.

⁹ Therefore I also have made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have had respect of persons in the law. ¹⁰ Have we not all one father? Has not one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

² Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread. ³ And having answered, he said to them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God, because of your tradition? ⁴ For God commanded, saying, Honor thy father and thy mother, and, He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him perish in death. ⁵ But ye say, Whoever may say to the father or the mother, Whatever thou might have benefited from me is an offering.

⁴⁵ And having answered, a certain man of the lawyers says to him, Teacher, in saying these things thou rebuke us also. ⁴⁶ And he said, Woe also to you lawyers! Because ye load men with burdens difficult to bear, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.

¹⁹ And thou have confidence in thyself to be a guide of the blind, a light of those in darkness, ²⁰ a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of the childlike, having in the law the essence of knowledge and truth, ²¹ thou therefore who teach another, do thou not teach thyself? Thou who preach not to steal, do thou steal? ²² Thou who say not to commit adultery, do thou commit adultery? Thou who abhor idols, do thou rob temples? ²³ Thou who boast in law, dishonor God by thy transgression of the law. ²⁴ For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, just as it is written.

²¹ It is good not to eat meats, nor to drink wine, nor in whatever thy brother stumbles against, or is caused to stumble, or becomes weak.

¹² Watch, brothers, lest there will be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in withdrawing from the living God.