1The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by the hand of Malachi.

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Habakkuk 1:1, Isaiah 13:1, Habakkuk 1:1, Isaiah 13:1, Haggai 1:1

2I have loved you, says the Lord, and you have said, “In what way have you loved us?” Was not Esau brother to Jacob, says the Lord? And have I not loved Jacob,

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Isaiah 41:8, Isaiah 41:9, Isaiah 41:8, Isaiah 41:9, Deuteronomy 10:15

3but held hatred for Esau? And I have set his mountains in solitude, and his inheritance with the serpents of the desert.

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Obadiah 1:10, Jeremiah 49:16, Jeremiah 49:18, Joel 3:19, Ezekiel 35:3

4But if Idumea will say, “We have been destroyed, but when we return, we will build up what has been destroyed,” thus says the Lord of hosts: They will build up, and I will destroy. And they will be called “The limits of impiety,” and, “The people with whom the Lord has been angry, even to eternity.”

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Ezekiel 25:14, Ezekiel 25:14, Ezekiel 35:9, Ezekiel 35:9, Isaiah 11:14

5And your eyes will see. And you will say, “May the Lord be magnified beyond the limits of Israel.”

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Deuteronomy 11:7, Deuteronomy 11:7, Luke 10:23, Luke 10:24, Psalms 83:17

6The son honors the father, and the servant his master. If, therefore, I am Father, where is my honor? And if I am Master, where is my fear? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. And you have said, “In what way, have we despised your name?”

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Luke 6:46, Luke 6:46, Isaiah 1:2, Isaiah 1:2, Exodus 20:12

7You offer polluted bread upon my altar, and you say, “In what way, have we polluted you?” In that you say, “The table of the Lord has been despised.”

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Malachi 1:12, Malachi 1:12, 1 Corinthians 11:27, 1 Corinthians 11:32, 1 Corinthians 11:27

8If you offer the blind for sacrifice, is this not evil? And if you offer the lame and the sick, is this not evil? Offer it to your leader, if he will be pleased with it, or if he will accept your face, says the Lord of hosts.

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Deuteronomy 15:21, Deuteronomy 15:21, Leviticus 22:19, Leviticus 22:25, Leviticus 22:19

9And now, beseech the face of God, so that he may have mercy on you (for by your hand has this been done) if, in any way, he might accept your faces, says the Lord of hosts.

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1 Peter 1:17, Jeremiah 27:18, Exodus 32:11, 1 Peter 1:17, Jeremiah 27:18

10Who is there among you that would close the doors and enflame my altar without pay? I have no favor in you, says the Lord of hosts. And I will not accept a gift from your hand.

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1 Peter 5:2, Amos 5:21, Amos 5:24, Micah 3:11, Hosea 5:6

11For, from the rising of the sun even to its setting, my name is great among the Gentiles, and in every place, a clean oblation is being sacrificed and offered to my name. For my name is great among the Gentiles, says the Lord of hosts.

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Isaiah 54:5, Isaiah 45:6, Isaiah 54:5, Isaiah 45:6, Isaiah 66:19

12And you have polluted it, in that you say, “The table of the Lord has been contaminated; and that which is placed upon it is contemptible, compared with the fire that devours it.”

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Romans 2:24, Malachi 2:8, Amos 2:7, Malachi 1:6, Malachi 1:8

13And you have said, “Behold our labor,” and you have exhaled it away, says the Lord of hosts. And you brought in by plunder the lame, and the sick, and brought it in as a gift. How can I receive this from your hand, says the Lord?

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Micah 6:3, Micah 6:3, Mark 14:37, Mark 14:38, Mark 14:37

14Cursed is the deceitful, who holds in his flock a male, and, when making a vow, offers in sacrifice that which is feeble to the Lord. For I am a great King, says the Lord of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the Gentiles.

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2 Corinthians 8:12, Acts 5:1, Acts 5:10, 2 Corinthians 8:12, Acts 5:1