1The burden of the woorde of the Lord to Israel by the ministerie of Malachi.

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

2I haue loued you, sayth the Lord: yet yee say, Wherein hast thou loued vs? Was not Esau Iaakobs brother, saith the Lord? yet I loued Iaakob,

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

3And I hated Esau, and made his mountaines wast, and his heritage a wildernes for dragons.

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

4Though Edom say, wee are impouerished, but we will returne and build the desolate places, yet sayeth the Lord of hostes, they shall builde, but I will destroy it, and they shall call them, The border of wickednes, and the people, with whome the Lord is angrie for euer.

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

5And your eyes shall see it, and yee shall say, The Lord will be magnified vpon the border of Israel.

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

6A sonne honoureth his father, and a seruant his master. If then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my feare, sayth the Lord of hostes vnto you, O Priestes, that despise my Name? and yee say, Wherein haue we despised thy Name?

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

7Ye offer vncleane bread vpon mine altar, and you say, Wherein haue we polluted thee? In that ye say the table of the Lord is not to be regarded.

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

8And if yee offer the blinde for sacrifice, it is not euill: and if ye offer the lame and sicke, it is not euill: offer it nowe vnto thy prince: will he be content with thee, or accept thy person, saieth the Lord of hostes?

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

9And nowe, I pray you, pray before God, that he may haue mercie vpon vs: this hath beene by your meanes: will hee regard your persons, sayth the Lord of hostes?

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

10Who is there euen among you, that would shut the doores? and kindle not fire on mine altar in vaine, I haue no pleasure in you, sayeth the Lord of hostes, neither will I accept an offering at your hande.

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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 sunne vnto the going downe of the same, my Name is great among the Gentiles, and in euery place incense shalbe offred vnto my Name, and a pure offering: for my Name is great among the heathen, sayeth the Lord of hostes.

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

12But ye haue polluted it, in that ye say, The table of the Lord is polluted and the fruit thereof, euen his meat is not to be regarded.

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

13Ye said also, Beholde, it is a wearines, and ye haue snuffed at it, sayth the Lord of hostes, and ye offred that which was torne, and the lame and the sicke: thus yee offred an offring: shoulde I accept this of your hand, sayth the Lord?

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

14But cursed be the deceiuer, which hath in his flocke a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth vnto ye Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, sayth the Lord of hostes, and my Name is terrible among the heathen.

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