Malachi 1:6 Cross References - Thomson

⁶ A son honoureth a father; and a servant, his master. Now if I be a father, where is my honour? And if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the Lord Almighty. As for you priests, you are they who bring dishonour on my name. Do you say, By what have we brought dishonour on thy name?

²² And thou shalt say to Pharao, Thus saith the Lord, Israel is my first born son, ²³ and I have said to thee, Send away this my people that they may serve me; if therefore thou wilt not dismiss them behold I will slay thy son; thy first born.

¹² Honour thy father and thy mother that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayst live long in that good land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

³ Let every one reverence his father and his mother. And you shall keep my sabbaths. I am the Lord your God;

¹⁶ Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee, that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayst live long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

²⁸ And I chose the house of thy father out of all the sceptres of Israel, to serve me in the priest's office, to go up to my altar, and to burn incense, and wear an ephod; and I gave the house of thy father all the burnt offerings of the children of Israel for meat. ²⁹ Why then hast thou looked with an impudent eye on my incense offerings, and on my sacrifice of flour, and honoured thy sons above me, by indulging them with the dedicated part of every sacrifice of Israel, in preference to me? ³⁰ For this cause, thus saith the Lord the God of Israel, I said, Thy house, and the house of thy father, shall go out before me for ever; but now the Lord saith, Far be this from me; for I will honour them only who honour me. And he who despiseth me shall be despised.

¹¹ A wicked progeny curse their father and bless not their mother.

¹⁷ The eye which derideth a father and despiseth the old age of a mother, may the ravens of the valley pick it out, and the young eagles devour it.

² Hearken, heaven! and hear earth! what the Lord hath spoken. "I have begotten children and brought them up; and they have rebelled against me.

⁸ But now, Lord, thou art our father. Though we are clay, we are all the works of thy hands:

²¹ I indeed planted thee an entirely good and fruitful vine: how art thou, degenerate vine, turned to bitterness? ²² Though thou wash thyself with nitre and use much soap: thou art stained by thine iniquities in my sight, saith the Lord.

³⁰ Astonishing and horrible things have been done in this ³¹ land. The prophets prophesy falsehoods, and the priests clapped with their hands, and my people loved to have it so. Now what will you do in regard to the consequences?

¹¹ [J] Because priest and prophet are polluted, and in my house I have seen their wickedness;

⁹ They set out with weeping; but I will bring them up with consolation, causing them to rest at fountains of water in a straight road; and in it they shall not be led astray, for I am become a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first born.

²⁶ Its priests also despised my law and profaned my holy things; between what was holy and what was profane they made no difference, nor did they distinguish between the unclean and the clean. And from my sabbaths they hid their eyes and I was profaned in the midst of them.

⁶ my people is like one that hath not knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, therefore I will reject thee from being my priest: as thou hast forgotten the law of thy God; I also will forget thy children.

¹ [p] Hear these things ye priests; and attend ye house of Israel, and ye household of the king give ear; for against you is this indictment, because you are become a snare in the watch tower; and like a net spread upon Itaburion,

⁸ Ephraim indeed said, "But I am rich, I have found a rest for myself." Because of the iniquities which he hath committed, none of his labours shall turn to account.

⁸ but as for you, you have turned aside out of the way and weakened many by law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the Lord Almighty,

¹⁴ And do you say, Why not? Because God was a witness between thee and the wife of thy youth whom thou hast forsaken, though she was thy companion and the wife of thy covenant. ¹⁵ Now did not he who had the residue of spirit, do right? Yet you have said, "What else but a seed doth God require?" But keep this in your mind, "Thou must not forsake the wife of thy youth." ¹⁶ [a] "But if thou having hated shalt put away saith the Lord God of Israel." [b] And will impiety, saith the Lord Almighty, put a cloak over thy lusts? Therefore keep this in your mind, "You must not forsake." ¹⁷ You have provoked God with your sayings. And do you ask, By what have we provoked him? By your saying, "Every one doing evil doth that which is good in the sight of the Lord." Now were he well pleased with such; where then is the God of Righteousness?

⁷ but you the sons of Jacob do not abstain from the iniquities of your fathers: you have turned aside my statutes and have not kept them: turn to me and I will turn to you, saith the Lord Almighty. Do you say, Wherein shall we turn? ⁸ Will a man supplant God? For you supplant me: and will you say, "wherein have we supplanted thee?" Because the tythes and the first fruits are with you,

¹³ You have brought heavy accusations against me, saith the Lord. Do you say, in what instance have we spoken against thee? ¹⁴ You say, "Vain is he who serveth God: and what advantage is it, that we have kept his charges. For though we have walked as supplicants before the Lord Almighty,

⁹ In this manner therefore pray ye, "Our Father, who art in the heavens, hallowed be thy name;

¹⁴ For if you forgive men their offences, your heavenly father will also forgive you; ¹⁵ but if you do not forgive men their offences, neither will your father forgive your offences.

²¹ Not every one who saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he who doeth the will of my father who is in heaven.

⁴ For God commanded saying, "Honour thy father and thy mother, and whosoever revileth father or mother let him be put to death:

⁶ must not honour either his father or his mother." Thus you have annulled the commandment of God from a regard to your doctrines.

¹⁹ Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

¹⁰ For Moses said, "Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Let him who curseth father or mother be put to death."

¹⁹ Thou knowest the commandments; thou shall not commit adultery, thou shalt not commit murder, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bear false testimony, thou shalt not defraud, honour thy father and thy mother.

³⁶ be ye therefore merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

⁴⁶ Now why do you call me, master, master, when ye do not what I command?

²⁹ But he, wishing to justify himself, said, And who is my neighbour?

²⁰ Thou knowest the commandments; thou shall not commit adultery; thou shalt not commit murder; thou shalt not steal; thou shalt not bear false witness; honour thy father and thy mother.

¹³ You call me The teacher and the master; and you say right, for so I am. ¹⁴ If I then, the master and the teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash one another's feet; ¹⁵ for I have set you an example, that you may do as I have done to you. ¹⁶ Verily, verily I say to you, The servant is not greater than his master; nor is a missionary greater than he who sent him. ¹⁷ If you know these things, happy are you if you practise them.

² Honour thy father and mother [this is the first commandment with a promise]

¹ Let as many as are under a yoke of bondage account their masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God, and this doctrine, may not be reviled. ² And let not those who have believing masters disregard them because they are brethren, but serve them the more, because they who receive the good service are believers, and beloved. Teach these things, and enforce them by exhortation.

⁹ Exhort servants to be obedient to their masters; to be in all things studious to please; not answering again, ¹⁰ not embezzling, but shewing all good fidelity, that they may in all things adorn the doctrine of our saviour God.

¹⁷ And since you invoke, as father, him who without respect of persons judgeth every one according to his work, pass the time of your sojourning in fear;

¹⁷ honour all men, love the brotherhood; fear God; honour the king. ¹⁸ You who are servants, be subject to your masters with reverence, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the morose. ¹⁹ For this is pleasing, if from a conscientious regard to God one endureth grief suffering wrongfully.