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 the Lord Almighty. You⌃ the priests are they that despise my name: yet you⌃ said, Wherein have we despised your name?

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?

In Context

5And your eyes shall see, and you⌃ shall say, The Lord has been magnified + 1:5 Gr. above. upon the borders of Israel.

7In that you⌃ bring to my altar polluted bread; and you⌃ said, Wherein have you⌃ polluted it? In that you⌃ say, The table of the Lord is polluted, and that which was set thereon you⌃ have despised.

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Cross References

Exodus 4:22And you shall say to Pharao, These things says the Lord, Israel is my firstborn.

Leviticus 19:3Let every one of you reverence his father and his mother; and you⌃ shall keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 32:6Do you⌃ thus recompense the Lord? is the people thus foolish and unwise? did not he himself your father purchase you, and make you, and form you?

Proverbs 30:11A wicked generation curse their father, and do not bless their mother.

Isaiah 1:2Hear, O heaven, and listen, O earth: for the Lord has spoken, saying, I have begotten and reared up children, but they have + 1:2 Or, 'set me at nothing.' rebelled against me.

Isaiah 64:7And there is none that calls upon your name, or that remembers to take hold on you: for you have turned your face away from us, and have delivered us up because of our 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 →

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