Malachi 1:6
A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? and if I am a master, where is my fear? says LORD of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. And ye say, How have we despised thy na
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In Context
5And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, LORD be magnified beyond the border of Israel.
Cross References
Exodus 4:22And thou shall say to Pharaoh, Thus says LORD, Israel is my son, my first-born,
Leviticus 19:3Every man shall fear his mother, and his father. And ye shall keep my Sabbaths. I am LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 32:6Do ye thus requite LORD, O foolish people and unwise? Is not he thy father who has bought thee? He has made thee, and established thee.
Proverbs 30:11There is a generation who curses their father, and does not bless their mother.
Isaiah 1:2Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for LORD has spoken. I have nourished and brought up sons, and they have rebelled against me.
Isaiah 64:7And there is none who calls upon thy name, who stirs himself up to take hold of thee. For thou have hid thy face from us, and have consumed us through our iniquities.
Matthew Henry on Malachi 1:2-6
Malachi God's prophets were his witnesses to his church, each in his day, for several ages, witnesses for him and his authority, witnesses against sin and sinners, attesting the true intents of God's providences in his dealings with his people then and the kind intentions of his grace concerning his church in the days of the Messiah, to whom all the prophets bore witness, for they all agreed in their testimony; and now we have only one witness more to call, and we have done with our evidence; and though he be the… Read the whole commentary →