Malachi 2

1“Now, you priests, this commandment is for you.Cross-references: Jer 13:13 · Lam 4:13 · Hos 5:1 · Mal 1:6

2If you will not listen, and if you will not take it to heart, to give glory to my name,” says Yahweh of Armies, “then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not take it to heart.Cross-references: Lev 26:14 · Deut 28:15 · Deut 30:17 · Josh 7:19 · Ps 69:22 · Ps 81:11 · +23 more

3Behold, I will rebuke your offspring, and will spread dung on your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and you will be taken away with it.Cross-references: Ex 29:14 · 1Sam 2:29 · 1Ki 14:10 · 2Ki 9:36 · Job 20:7 · Ps 83:10 · +6 more

4You will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant may be with Levi,” says Yahweh of Armies.Cross-references: Num 3:12 · Num 3:45 · 1Ki 22:25 · Neh 13:29 · Isa 1:24 · Isa 26:11 · +9 more

5“My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him that he might be reverent toward me; and he was reverent toward me, and stood in awe of my name.Cross-references: Ex 32:26 · Num 3:45 · Num 8:15 · Num 16:9 · Num 18:8 · Num 25:12 · +4 more

6The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity.Cross-references: Gen 5:21 · Gen 6:9 · Gen 17:1 · Deut 33:10 · Ps 37:30 · Jer 23:22 · +14 more

7For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.Cross-references: Lev 10:11 · Num 27:21 · Deut 17:8 · Deut 21:5 · Deut 24:8 · 2Chr 17:8 · +17 more

8But you have turned away from the path. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi,” says Yahweh of Armies.Cross-references: Lev 21:15 · 1Sam 2:17 · 1Sam 2:24 · 1Sam 2:30 · Neh 13:29 · Ps 18:21 · +17 more

9“Therefore I have also made you contemptible and wicked before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.Cross-references: Deut 1:17 · 1Sam 2:30 · 1Ki 22:28 · Prov 10:7 · Jer 28:15 · Jer 29:20 · +19 more

10Don’t we all have one father? Hasn’t one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?Cross-references: Ex 19:5 · Ex 34:10 · Josh 23:12 · Josh 24:3 · Ezra 9:11 · Ezra 10:2 · +37 more

11Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.Cross-references: Gen 6:1 · Ex 19:5 · Lev 18:24 · Lev 20:26 · Deut 7:3 · Deut 14:2 · +19 more

12Yahweh will cut off the man who does this, him who wakes and him who answers, out of the tents of Jacob and him who offers an offering to Yahweh of Armies.Cross-references: Gen 4:3 · Lev 18:29 · Lev 20:3 · Num 15:30 · Num 24:5 · Josh 23:12 · +20 more

13“This again you do: you cover Yahweh’s altar with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn’t regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand.Cross-references: Deut 15:9 · Deut 26:14 · 1Sam 1:9 · 2Sam 13:19 · Neh 8:9 · Ps 78:34 · +6 more

14Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion and the wife of your covenant.Cross-references: Gen 2:18 · Gen 31:50 · Judg 11:10 · 1Sam 12:5 · Prov 2:17 · Prov 5:18 · +13 more

15Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.Cross-references: Gen 1:27 · Gen 2:7 · Gen 2:20 · Gen 6:2 · Gen 24:3 · Gen 24:44 · +28 more

16One who hates and divorces”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore pay attention to your spirit, that you don’t be unfaithful.Cross-references: Deut 24:1 · Prov 28:13 · Isa 28:20 · Isa 50:1 · Isa 59:6 · Mic 7:2 · +4 more

17You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, ‘How have we wearied him?’ In that you say, ‘Everyone who does evil is good in Yahweh’s sight, and he delights in them;’ or ‘Where is the God of justice?’Cross-references: Deut 32:4 · 1Sam 2:3 · Job 34:5 · Job 34:17 · Job 34:36 · Job 36:17 · +21 more