1An oracle: the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi.

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

2"I have loved you," says the Lord. Yet you say, "How have you loved us?" "Wasn't Esau Jacob's brother?" says the Lord, "Yet I loved Jacob;

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

3but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness."

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

4Whereas Edom says, "We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places;" thus says the Lord of hosts, "They shall build, but I will throw down; and men will call them 'The Wicked Land,' even the people against whom the Lord shows wrath forever."

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

5Your eyes will see, and you will say, "The Lord is great-even beyond the border of Israel!"

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

6"A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says the Lord of hosts to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, 'How 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 on my altar. You say, 'How have we polluted you?' In that you say, 'The Lord's table contemptible.'

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

8When you offer the blind for sacrifice, isn't that evil? And when you offer the lame and sick, isn't that evil? Present it now to your governor! Will he be pleased with you? Or will he accept your person?" says the Lord of hosts.

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

9"Now, please entreat the favor of God, that he may be gracious to us. With this, will he accept any of you?" 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

10"Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you," says the Lord of hosts, "neither will I accept an offering at 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 the going down of the same, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name is great among the nations," says the Lord of hosts.

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

12"But you profane it, in that you say, 'The Lord's table is polluted, and its fruit, even its food, is contemptible.'

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

13You say also, 'Behold, what a weariness it is!' and you have sniffed at it," says the Lord of hosts; "and you have brought that which was taken by violence, the lame, and the sick; thus you bring the offering. Should I accept this at your hand?" says the Lord.

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

14"But the deceiver is cursed, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the Lord a blemished thing; for I am a great King," says the Lord of hosts, "and my name is awesome among the nations."

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