Malachi 1
Treated in 18 passages across the library.
The verses these writers stop at
- 1:6 A son honors his father, and a servant honors his master. If I am a father, where is the honor due to me? If I am a master, where is the respect due to me? says the LORD of Armies to you priests who despise my name. Yet you ask, "In what way have we despised your name?" 8
- 1:13 You say, "What a burden this is!" and you sniff at it in contempt, says the LORD of Armies. You bring animals that were stolen, or lame or sick, and these you bring as your offering! Should I accept that from your hands? says the LORD. 3
- 1:14 Cursed is the cheat who has a sound male in their flock and vows to give it, but then sacrifices to the Lord an animal with a blemish! I am a great King, says the LORD of Armies, and my name is feared among the nations. 2
- 1:2 I have loved you, says the LORD. Yet you ask, "In what way have you loved us?" Was Esau not Jacob's brother? declares the LORD. Even so, I loved Jacob, 1
- 1:3 but Esau I hated. I have turned his mountains into a wasteland and left his inheritance to the jackals of the desert. 1
- 1:4 Edom may say, "We have been crushed, but we will rebuild the ruins." But the LORD of Armies says this: They may build, but I will tear down. They will be called the Land of Wickedness, the people with whom the LORD is angry forever. 1
- 1:10 If only one of you would close the temple doors and stop you from lighting useless fires on my altar! I have no pleasure in you, says the LORD of Armies, and I will not accept an offering from your hands. 1
- 1:11 From where the sun rises to where it sets, my name is great among the nations. In every place incense is offered to my name, and pure offerings, because my name is great among the nations, says the LORD of Armies. 1
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Where it is preached
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 3, Chapter 21 — Of the Eternal Election, by Which God Has Predestinated Some to Salvation, and Others to Destruction cites Mal. 1:2
…“Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the Lord: yet I loved Jacob, and I hated Esau,” (Mal. 1:2, 3). For God takes it for granted, that as both were the sons of a holy father, and…
- Communion with God ·
That this communion is distinctly with the Father, Son, and Spirit cites Mal. i. 6
…manifested — Faith in the Father, John v. 9, 10; and love towards him, 1 John ii. 15, Mal. i. 6 — So in prayer and praise — It is so likewise with the Son, John xiv. 1 — Of our…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 4, Chapter 18 — Of the Popish Mass cites Mal. 1:11
…that “in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering” (Mal. 1:11). As if it were new or unusual for the prophets, when they speak of the calling of the…
- He Holds My Tomorrows ·
Abraham cites Malachi 1:3
…It is striking that God would declare, “I have loved Jacob but I have hated Esau” (Malachi 1:3). It is further worthy of note that the promises given to the idolator Abram were…
- The Bondage of the Will ·
Discussion: Part the Third cites Malachi i. 4
…“Free-will” with all its powers in defiance of them, and thus in reality fulfil that of Malachi i. 4, “They build, but I will throw down!” With the same power of words also is this said —…
- The Ten Commandments ·
Obedience cites Mal 1: 6
…is a part of the honour we owe to God. ‘If then I be a Father, where is my honour?’ Mal 1: 6. Obedience carries in it the life-blood of religion. ‘Obey the voice of the Lord God,’…
- Communion with God ·
Of the peculiar and distinct communion which the saints have with the Father cites Mal. i. 6
…Father in his love. Hence God calls that love which is due to him as a father, “honour,” Mal. i. 6, “If I be a father, where is mine honour?” It is a deserved act of duty. 2dly. They…
- Communion with God ·
How the saints hold communion with Christ as to their acceptation with God cites Mal. i. 6
…the world:— (1st.) The end of our obedience, in respect of God, is, his glory and honour, Mal. i. 6. This is God’s honour, — all that we give him. It is true, he will take his honour from…
- The Bondage of the Will ·
Discussion: Part the Second cites Mal. i. 6
…they did not, in return, either love Him as their Father, or fear Him as their Lord. (Mal. i. 6.). That God had loved them, he proves, both by the Scriptures, and by facts: viz. in…
- The Ten Commandments ·
2.5 The Fifth Commandment cites Mal 1: 6
…on earth, much more our Father in heaven. ‘If then I be a father, where is mine honour?’ Mal 1: 6. A father is but the instrument of conveying life, but God is the original cause of our…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 2, Chapter 8 — Exposition of the Moral Law cites Mal. 1:6
…where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the Lord of hosts,” (Mal. 1:6). 15. Next follows a commemoration of his kindness, which ought to produce upon us an…
- A Call to the Unconverted ·
Sermon III cites Mal. i. 6
…made the temple of the Lord contemptible they durst say, “Wherein have we polluted thee?” Mal. i. 6, 7. But “Wo unto him, saith the Lord, that striveth with his Maker: Let the potsherd…
- A Body of Divinity ·
The Justice of God cites Mal 1:10
…God will not be in any man’s debt. ‘Who has kindled a fire on my altar for nought?’ Mal 1:10. (2.) God lets men go on in sin, and prosper, that he may leave them more inexcusable. ‘I…
- The Bruised Reed ·
The spiritual government of Christ is joined with judgment and wisdom cites Mal. i. 13
…doth the building : God will have no blind sacrifices, no unreasonable services, Mal. i. 13, but will have us to love him with all our mind, Rom. xii. 1, that is, with our…
- A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections ·
XII. Gracious and holy affections have their exercise and fruit in Christian practice cites Mal. 1:13
…difficulties that attend it; as is evident by Gal. 6:9, Rom. 2:7, Heb. 10:36, Isa. 43:22, Mal. 1:13. They can never backslide, so as to continue no longer in a way of universal obedience…
- Knots Untied ·
The Sabbath cites Mal. i. 13
…old who said, “When will the Sabbath be gone?”—“What a weariness is it!” (Amos viii. 5; Mal. i. 13.) It is an awful conclusion, but it is impossible to avoid it. Scripture, history, and…
- Communion with God ·
Digression I: some excellencies of Christ proposed to consideration cites Mal. i. 14
…be offered unto God, the curse falling on all other oblations, and them that offer them, Mal. i. 14. The purity of the snow is not to be compared with the whiteness of this lily, of this…
- The Ten Commandments ·
2.4 The Fourth Commandment cites Mal 1: 14
…deceiver, which has in his flock a male, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing.’ Mal 1: 14. To have strong lively affections is to have a male in the flock; but to hear the word…