Malachi 1:6
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?
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
5And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD be magnified beyond the border of Israel.
Cross References
Exodus 4:22And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, my firstborn:
Leviticus 19:3Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and ye shall keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 32:6Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? Is not he thy father that hath bought thee? He hath made thee, and established thee.
Proverbs 30:11There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
Isaiah 1:2Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD hath spoken: I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
Isaiah 64:7And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast 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 →