Malachi 1:6
A son honors his father, and a servant his master: if then I am a father, where is mine honor? and if I am a master, where is my fear? saith the Lord Almighty. Ye the priests are they that despise my name: yet ye said, Wherein have we despised thy name?
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
5And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The Lord has been magnified upon the borders of Israel.
Cross References
Exodus 4:22And thou shalt say to Pharaoh, These things saith the Lord, Israel is my firstborn.
Leviticus 19:3Let every one of you reverence his father and his mother; and ye shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 32:6Do ye thus recompense the Lord? 1 Is the people thus foolish and unwise? 1 Did not he himself thy father purchase thee, 1 And make thee, and form thee? 1
Proverbs 30:11A wicked generation curse their father, and do not bless their mother.
Isaiah 1:2Hear, O heaven, and hearken, O earth: for the Lord has spoken, saying, I have begotten and reared up children, but they have rebelled against me.
Isaiah 64:7And now, O Lord, thou art our Father, and we are clay, all of us the work of thy hands.
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 →