Malachi 1:6
A son honors his father, and a servant respects his master. So if I am your father, where is my honor? If I am your master, where is my respect? says the Lord Almighty to you priests who show contempt for me. But you ask, “How have we shown contempt for you?”
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Exodus 4:22This is what you are to tell Pharaoh, ‘This is what the Lord says. Israel is my firstborn son.
Leviticus 19:3Show respect for your mother and father, and keep my Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 32:6Is this any way to repay the Lord, you foolish, stupid people? Isn't he your Father who created you? Isn't he the one who turned you into a nation and made you strong?
Proverbs 30:11There are some who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.
Isaiah 1:2Heavens, listen! Earth, pay attention! For the Lord has spoken! I brought up children, I cared for them, but they have rebelled against me.
Isaiah 64:7There's no one who calls for you or really wants to hold on to you, because you have hidden your face from us and let us drown in our own sins.
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 →