Malachi 2:12

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Malachi 2:10–14 · Berean Standard Bible

10 Do we not all have one Father? Did not one God create us? Why then do we break faith with one another so as to profane the covenant of our fathers?

11 Judah has broken faith; an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the LORD’s beloved sanctuary by marrying the daughter of a foreign god.

12 As for the man who does this, may the LORD cut off from the tents of Jacob everyone who is awake and aware—even if he brings an offering to the LORD of Hosts.

13 And this is another thing you do: You cover the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping and groaning, because He no longer regards your offerings or receives them gladly from your hands.

14 Yet you ask, “Why?” It is because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have broken faith, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.

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Leviticus 18:29

Therefore anyone who commits any of these abominations must be cut off from among his people.

Leviticus 20:3

And I will set My face against that man and cut him off from his people, because by giving his offspring to Molech, he has defiled My sanctuary and profaned My holy name.

Numbers 15:30

But the person who sins defiantly, whether a native or foreigner, blasphemes the LORD. That person shall be cut off from among his people.

Numbers 15:31

He shall certainly be cut off, because he has despised the word of the LORD and broken His commandment; his guilt remains on him.”

Joshua 23:12

For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them,

Joshua 23:13

know for sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become for you a snare and a trap, a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you.

1 Samuel 2:31

Behold, the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father’s house, so that no older man will be left in your house.

1 Samuel 2:32

You will see distress in My dwelling place. Despite all that is good in Israel, no one in your house will ever again reach old age.

1 Samuel 2:33

And every one of you that I do not cut off from My altar, your eyes will fail and your heart will grieve. All your descendants will die by the sword of men.

1 Samuel 2:34

And this sign shall come to you concerning your two sons Hophni and Phinehas: They will both die on the same day.

1 Chronicles 25:8

They cast lots for their duties, young and old alike, teacher as well as pupil.

Ezra 10:18

Among the descendants of the priests who had married foreign women were found these descendants of Jeshua son of Jozadak and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.

Ezra 10:19

They pledged to send their wives away, and for their guilt they presented a ram from the flock as a guilt offering.

Nehemiah 13:28

Even one of the sons of Jehoiada son of Eliashib the high priest had become a son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite. Therefore I drove him away from me.

Nehemiah 13:29

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

Isaiah 9:14

So the LORD will cut off Israel’s head and tail, both palm branch and reed in a single day.

Isaiah 9:15

The head is the elder and honorable man, and the tail is the prophet who teaches lies.

Isaiah 9:16

For those who guide this people mislead them, and those they mislead are swallowed up.

Isaiah 24:1

Behold, the LORD lays waste the earth and leaves it in ruins. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants—

Isaiah 24:2

people and priest alike, servant and master, maid and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debtor.

Ezekiel 14:10

They will bear their punishment—the punishment of the inquirer will be the same as that of the prophet—

Hosea 4:4

But let no man contend; let no man offer reproof; for your people are like those who contend with a priest.

Hosea 4:5

You will stumble by day, and the prophet will stumble with you by night; so I will destroy your mother—

Matthew 15:14

Disregard them! They are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”

2 Timothy 3:13

while evil men and imposters go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

Revelation 19:20

But the beast was captured along with the false prophet, who on its behalf had performed signs deceiving those who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. Both the beast and the false prophet were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur.

Numbers 24:5

How lovely are your tents, O Jacob, your dwellings, O Israel!

Zechariah 12:7

The LORD will save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the house of David and of the people of Jerusalem may not be greater than that of Judah.

Malachi 2:10

Do we not all have one Father? Did not one God create us? Why then do we break faith with one another so as to profane the covenant of our fathers?

Genesis 4:3

So in the course of time, Cain brought some of the fruit of the soil as an offering to the LORD,

Genesis 4:4

while Abel brought the best portions of the firstborn of his flock. And the LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering,

Genesis 4:5

but He had no regard for Cain and his offering. So Cain became very angry, and his countenance fell.

1 Samuel 3:14

Therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli, ‘The iniquity of Eli’s house shall never be atoned for by sacrifice or offering.’”

1 Samuel 15:22

But Samuel declared: “Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to His voice? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, and attentiveness is better than the fat of rams.

1 Samuel 15:23

For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance is like the wickedness of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, He has rejected you as king.”

Isaiah 61:8

For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity; in My faithfulness I will give them their recompense and make an everlasting covenant with them.

Isaiah 66:3

Whoever slaughters an ox is like one who slays a man; whoever sacrifices a lamb is like one who breaks a dog’s neck; whoever presents a grain offering is like one who offers pig’s blood; whoever offers frankincense is like one who blesses an idol. Indeed, they have chosen their own ways and delighted in their abominations.

Amos 5:22

Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard.