Malachi 1:6
“A son honours his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honour? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me?” says the LORD of Armies to you priests who despise my name. “You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’
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In Context
5Your eyes will see, and you will say, “The LORD is great—even beyond the border of Israel!”
Cross References
Exodus 4:22You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘The LORD says, Israel is my son, my firstborn,
Leviticus 19:3“‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 32:6Is this the way you repay the LORD, foolish and unwise people? Isn’t he your father who has bought you? He has made you and established you.
Proverbs 30:11There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn’t bless their mother.
Isaiah 1:2Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for the LORD has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children and they have rebelled against me.
Isaiah 64:7There is no one who calls on your name, who stirs himself up to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of 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 →