Malachi 2 Cross References - Moffatt

⁹ instead of presuming to say to yourselves, 'We have a father in Abraham.' I tell you, God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

¹² His winnowing-fan is in his hand, he will clean out his threshing-floor, his wheat he will gather into the granary, but the straw he will burn with fire unquenchable."

²¹ You have heard how the men of old were told, 'Murder not: whoever murders must come up for sentence, ²² whoever maligns his brother must come before the San hedrin, whoever curses his brother must go to the fire of Gehenna.' But I tell you, whoever is angry with his brother [without cause] will be sentenced by God.

²⁷ You have heard how it used to be said, Do not commit adultery. ²⁸ But I tell you, any one who even looks with lust at a woman has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

²⁸ But I tell you, any one who even looks with lust at a woman has committed adultery with her already in his heart. ²⁹ If your right eye is a hindrance to you, pluck it out and throw it away: better for you to lose one of your members than to have all your body thrown into Gehenna.

³¹ It used to be said, Whoever divorces his wife must give her a divorce-certificate. ³² But I tell you, anyone who divorces his wife for any reason except unchastity makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery. ³³ Once again, you have heard how the men of old were told, 'You must not forswear yourself but discharge your vows to the Lord'. ³⁴ But I tell you, you must not swear any oath, neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God, ³⁵ nor by earth, for it is the footstool of his feet, nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King; ³⁶ nor shall you swear by your head, for you cannot make a single hair white or black. ³⁷ Let what you say be simply 'yes' or 'no'; whatever exceeds that springs from evil.

⁴³ You have heard the saying, 'You must love your neighbour and hate your enemy.' ⁴⁴ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

²¹ Brother will betray brother to death, the father will betray his child, children will rise against their parents and put them to death,

¹⁸ For John has come neither eating nor drinking, and men say, 'He has a devil'; ¹⁹ the Son of man has come eating and drinking, and men say, 'Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of taxgatherers and sinners!' Nevertheless, Wisdom is vindicated by all that she does."

² "Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands when they take their food." ³ He replied, "And why do you transgress the command of God with your traditions? ⁴ God enjoined, Honour your father and mother, and, He who curses his father or mother is to suffer death. ⁵ But you say, whoever tells his father or mother, 'This money might have been at your service but it is dedicated to God,'

¹⁴ Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind, and if one blind man leads another, both of them will fall into a pit."

¹⁹ For out of the heart come evil designs, murder, adultery, sexual vice, stealing, false witness, and slander.

³ Then the Pharisees came up to tempt him. They asked, "Is it right to divorce one's wife for any reason?" ⁴ He replied, "Have you never read that He who created them male and female from the beginning

⁴ He replied, "Have you never read that He who created them male and female from the beginning ⁵ said, Hence a man shall leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and the pair shall be one flesh?

⁵ said, Hence a man shall leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and the pair shall be one flesh? ⁶ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What God has joined, then, man must not separate."

⁶ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What God has joined, then, man must not separate." ⁷ They said to him, "Then why did Moses lay it down that we were to divorce by giving a separation-notice?" ⁸ He said to them, "Moses permitted you to divorce your wives, on account of the hardness of your hearts, but it was not so from the beginning. ⁹ I tell you, whoever divorces his wife except for unchastity and marries another woman, commits adultery; and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery."

¹⁷ He said to him, "Why do you ask me about what is good? One alone is good. But if you want to get into Life, keep the commands." ¹⁸ "Which?" he said. Jesus answered, "The commands, you shall not kill, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not bear false witness,

¹⁶ They sent him their disciples with the Herodians, who said, "Teacher, we know you are sincere and that you teach the Way of God honestly and fearlessly; you do not court human favour.

¹⁶ Woe to you, blind guides that you are! you say, 'Swear by the sanctuary, and it means nothing; but swear by the gold of the sanctuary, and the oath is binding.' ¹⁷ You are senseless and blind! for which is the greater, the gold or the sanctuary that makes the gold sacred? ¹⁸ You say again, 'Swear by the altar, and it means nothing; but swear by the gift upon it, and the oath is binding.' ¹⁹ You are blind! for which is the greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred? ²⁰ He who swears by the altar swears by it and by all that lies on it; ²¹ he who swears by the sanctuary swears by it and by Him who inhabits it; ²² he who swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by Him who sits upon it. ²³ Woe to you, you impious scribes and Pharisees! you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and omit the weightier matters of the law, justice and mercy and faithfulness; these latter you ought to have practised — without omit ting the former. ²⁴ Blind guides that you are, filtering away the gnat and swallowing the camel!

⁸ You drop what God commands and hold to human tradition. ⁹ Yes, forsooth," he added, "you set aside what God commands, so as to maintain your own tradition. ¹⁰ Thus, Moses said, Honour your father and mother, and, He who curses his father or mother is to suffer death. ¹¹ But you say that if a man tells his father or mother, 'This money might have been at your service, but it is Korban' (that is, dedicated to God), ¹² he is exempt, so you hold, from doing anything for his father or mother. ¹³ That is repealing the word of God in the interests of the tradition which you keep up. And you do many things like that." ¹⁴ Then he called the crowd to him again and said to them, "Listen to me, all of you, and understand this:

² Now some Pharisees came up and asked him if a man was allowed to divorce his wife. This was to tempt him. ³ So he replied, "What did Moses lay down for you?" ⁴ They said, "Moses permitted a man to divorce her by writing out a separation notice." ⁵ Jesus said to them, "He wrote you that command on account of the hardness of your hearts. ⁶ But from the beginning, when God created the world, Male and female, He created them:

⁶ But from the beginning, when God created the world, Male and female, He created them: ⁷ hence a man shall leave his father and mother,

⁷ hence a man shall leave his father and mother, ⁸ and the pair shall be one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

⁸ and the pair shall be one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh. ⁹ What God has joined, then, man must not separate." ¹⁰ Indoors, the disciples again asked him about this, ¹¹ and he said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman is an adulterer to the former, ¹² and she is an adulteress if she divorces her husband and marries another man."

¹⁴ They came up and said to him, "Teacher, we know you are sincere and fearless; you do not court human favour, you teach the Way of God honestly. Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not?

⁶ They were both just in the sight of God, blameless in their obedience to all the commands and regulations of God;

¹⁶ he will turn many of the sons of Israel to the Lord their God, ¹⁷ he will go in front of Him with the spirit and power of Elijah to turn the hearts of fathers to their children, turning the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make a people ready and prepared for the Lord."

⁷³ of the oath he swore to Abraham our father,

⁸ Now, produce fruits that answer to your repentance, instead of beginning to say to yourselves, 'We have a father in Abraham.' I tell you, God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

¹¹ 'The very dust of your town that clings to us, we wipe off from our feet as a protest. But mark this, the Reign of God is near!'

²⁹ Anxious to make an excuse for himself, however, he said to Jesus, "But who is my neighbour?"

⁴² But woe to you Pharisees! you tithe mint and rue and every vegetable, but justice and the love of God you disregard; these latter you ought to have practised — without omitting the former.

⁴⁵ One of the jurists said to him, "Teacher, when you say this you are insulting us as well." ⁴⁶ He said, "And woe to you jurists! you load men with irksome burdens, and you will not put a single finger to their burdens.

³⁵ It is no use for either soil or dunghill, it is flung out. He who has an ear let him listen to this."

¹⁸ Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

¹⁸ Was there no one to return and give glory to God except this foreigner?"

²¹ They put this question to him, "Teacher, we know you are straight in what you say and teach, you do not look to human favour but teach the Way of God honestly.

⁴⁵ And in the hearing of all the people he said to his disciples, ⁴⁶ "Beware of the scribes! They like to walk about in long robes, they are fond of getting saluted in the market-places, of securing the front seats in the synagogues and the best places at banquets; ⁴⁷ they prey upon the property of widows and offer long unreal prayers. All the heavier will their sentence be!"

²⁸ but Jesus turned to them and said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me but weep for yourselves and for your children! ²⁹ For there are days coming when the cry will be, 'Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never have borne and the breasts that never have suckled!' ³⁰ Then will people say to the mountains, 'Fall on us!' and to the hills, 'Cover us.'

³⁹ They answered him, "Abraham is our father." "If you are Abraham's children," said Jesus, "then do as Abraham did;

⁴¹ You do the deeds of your father." They said to him, "We are no bastards: we have one father, even God."

⁵³ Are you greater than our father Abraham? He is dead, and the prophets are dead. Who do you claim to be?"

⁵⁶ Your father Abraham exulted that he was to see my Day: he did see it and he rejoiced."

²⁰ (Truly, truly I tell you, he who receives anyone I send receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.)"

² he cuts away any branch on me which is not bearing fruit, and cleans every branch which does bear fruit, to make it bear richer fruit.

²¹ Jesus then repeated, "Peace be with you! As the Father sent me forth, I am sending you forth." ²² And with these words he breathed on them, and added, "Receive the holy Spirit!

²⁵ Now you are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God made with your fathers when he said to Abraham, all families on earth shall be blessed in your offspring.

² "Listen, brothers and fathers," said Stephen. "The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was still in Mesopotamia, before ever he stayed in Haran,

²⁶ Next day he came upon two of them fighting and tried to pacify them. "You are brothers!" he said, "why injure one another?"

¹⁷ She followed Paul and the rest of us, shrieking, "These men are servants of the Most High God, they proclaim to you the way of salvation!"

²⁵ he is not served by human hands as if he needed anything, for it is he who gives life and breath and all things to all men.

¹⁸ that their eyes may be opened and that they may turn from darkness to light, from the power of Satan to God, to get remission of their sins and an inheritance among those who are consecrated by faith in me.'

¹⁹ and are persuaded that you are a guide to the blind, a light to darkened souls, ²⁰ a tutor for the foolish, a teacher of the simple, because in the Law you have the embodiment of knowledge and truth — ²¹ well then, do you ever teach yourself, you teacher of other people? You preach against stealing; do you steal? ²² You forbid adultery; do you commit adultery? You detest idols; do you rob temples? ²³ You pride yourself on the Law; do you dishonour God by your breaches of the Law? ²⁴ Why, it is owing to you that the name of God is maligned among the Gentiles, as scripture says!

¹ But if so, what can we say about Abraham, our forefather by natural descent?

⁷ What follows, then? That 'the Law is equivalent to sin'? Never! Why, had it not been for the Law, I would never have known what sin meant! Thus I would never have known what it is to covet, unless the Law had said, You must not covet. ⁸ The command gave an impulse to sin, and sin resulted for me in all manner of covetous desire — for sin, apart from law, is lifeless. ⁹ I lived at one time without law myself, but when the command came home to me, sin sprang to life and I died; ¹⁰ the command that meant life proved death for me.

¹⁰ And further, when Rebecca became pregnant by our father Isaac, though one man was the father of both children,

²¹ the right course is to abstain from flesh or wine or indeed anything that your brother feels to be a stumbling-block.

¹³ when defamed, we try to conciliate. To this hour we are treated as the scum of the earth, the very refuse of the world!

⁶ instead of one brother going to law with another — and before unbelievers too! ⁷ Even to have law-suits with one another is in itself evidence of defeat. Why not rather let yourselves be wronged? Why not rather let yourselves be defrauded? ⁸ But instead of that you inflict wrong and practise frauds — and that upon members of the brotherhood!

² but there is so much immorality that every man had better have a wife of his own and every woman a husband of her own.

¹⁴ For the unbelieving husband is consecrated in the person of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is consecrated in the person of the Christian brother she has married; otherwise, of course, your children would be unholy instead of being consecrated to God.

⁶ but for us there is one God, the Father, from whom all comes, and for whom we exist; one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom all exists, and by whom we exist.)

²⁰ So I am an envoy for Christ, God appealing by me, as it were — be reconciled to God, I entreat you on behalf of Christ.

¹⁴ [Keep out of all incongruous ties with unbelievers. What have righteousness and iniquity in common, or how can light associate with darkness? ¹⁵ What harmony can there be between Christ and Beliar, or what business has a believer with an unbeliever? ¹⁶ What compact can there be between God's temple and idols? For we are the temple of the living God — as God has said, I will dwell and move among them, I will be their God and they shall be my people. ¹⁷ Therefore come away from them, separate, saith the Lord, touch not what is unclean; then I will receive you, ¹⁸ I will be a Father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord almighty.

¹⁸ I will be a Father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord almighty.

⁶ Besides, the so-called 'authorities' (it makes no difference to me what their status used to be — God pays no regard to the externals of men), these 'authorities' had no additions to make to my gospel.

¹⁴ and though my flesh was a trial to you, you did not scoff at me nor spurn me, you welcomed me like an angel of God, like Christ Jesus. You congratulated yourselves.

⁶ one God and Father of all, who is over us all, who pervades us all, who is within us all.

²⁵ Lay aside falsehood, then, let each tell his neighbour the truth, for we are members one of another.

⁴ As for you fathers, do not exasperate your children, but bring them up in the discipline and on the admonitions of the Lord.

⁹ People tell us of their own accord about the visit we paid to you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and a real God ¹⁰ and to wait for the coming of his Son from heaven — the Son whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who rescues us from the Wrath to come.

⁶ no one is to defraud or overreach his brother in this matter, for the Lord avenges all these sins, as we told you already in our solemn protest against them.

⁸ hence, he who disregards this, disregards not man but the God who gave you his holy Spirit.

⁴ able to manage his own household properly and keep his children submissive and perfectly respectful ⁵ (if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how is he to look after the church of God?);

¹¹ Their wives must be serious too; they must not be slanderers but temperate and absolutely trustworthy. ¹² Deacons are only to be married once, and they must manage their children and households properly.

¹⁵ Do your utmost to let God see that you at least are a sound workman, with no need to be ashamed of the way you handle the word of the Truth. ¹⁶ Avoid all that profane jargon, for it leads people still further into irreligion,

²⁴ And the Lord's servant must not be a man of strife; he must be kind to everybody, a skilled teacher, a man who will not resent injuries; ²⁵ he must be gentle in his admonitions to the opposition — God may perhaps let them change their mind and admit the Truth;

¹³ Bad characters and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and deceived themselves;

⁶ men who are above reproach, only once married, with children who believe and who are not liable to the charge of being profligate or insubordinate. ⁷ [For a bishop must be above reproach — he is a steward of God's house — he must not be presumptuous or hot-tempered or a drunkard or violent or addicted to pilfering; ⁸ he must be hospitable, a lover of goodness, master of himself, a just man, a religious man, and abstemious; ⁹ he must hold by the sure truths of doctrine so as to be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and refute objections raised by any.]

¹² Brothers, take care in case there is a wicked, unbelieving heart in any of you, moving you to apostatize from the living God.

⁹ Why, we had fathers of our flesh to discipline us, and we yielded to them! Shall we not far more submit to the Father of our spirits, and so live?

¹⁴ Everyone is tempted as he is beguiled and allured by his own desire; ¹⁵ then Desire conceives and breeds Sin, while Sin matures and gives birth to Death.

¹⁹ My brothers, if anyone of you goes astray from the truth and someone brings him back, ²⁰ understand that he who brings a sinner back from the error of his way saves his soul from death and hides a host of sins.

¹¹ If anyone preaches, he must preach as one who utters the words of God; if anyone renders some service, it must be as one who is supplied by God with power, so that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. The glory and the dominion are his for ever and ever: Amen.

³ To begin with, you know that mockers will come with their mockeries in the last days, men who go by their own passions, ⁴ asking, "Where is His promised advent? Since the day our fathers fell asleep, things remain exactly as they were from the beginning of creation."

⁵ And on their lips no lie was ever detected; they are stainless.

⁷ he cried aloud, "Fear God and give him glory, for the hour of his judgment has come; worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the fountains of water."

⁹ till men, scorched by the fierce heat, blasphemed the name of the God who had control of these plagues; yet they would not repent and give him glory.

²⁰ But the Beast was seized, together with the false Prophet who had performed in his presence the miracles by means of which he seduced those who received the mark of the Beast and worshipped his statue; both of them were flung alive into the lake of fire that blazes with brimstone,

⁸ but as for the craven, the faithless, the abominable, as for murderers, the immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and liars of all kinds — their lot is the lake that blazes with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."