Malachi 1:6
“A son honors his father, and a servant honors his master. If I, then, am a father, where is my honor? If I am a master, where is the reverence for me?” says Yahweh of hosts to you priests, who despise my name. “But you say, 'How have we despised your name?'
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5Your own eyes will see this, and you will say, 'Yahweh is great beyond the borders of Israel.'”
Cross References
Exodus 4:22You must say to Pharaoh, 'This is what Yahweh says: Israel is my son, my firstborn,
Leviticus 19:3Everyone must respect his mother and his father, and you must keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.
Deuteronomy 32:6Do you reward Yahweh in this way, 1 you foolish and senseless people? 1 Is he not your father, the one who has created you? 1 He made you and established you. 1
Proverbs 30:11There is a generation that curses their father 1 and does not bless their mother. 1
Isaiah 1:2Hear, heavens, and give ear, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: 1 “I have nourished and brought up children, but they have rebelled against me. 1
Isaiah 64:7There are none who calls on your name, who makes an effort to take hold of you. 1 For you have hidden your face from us and made us waste away in the hand of our iniquities. 1
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 →