Malachi 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?"
Treated in 8 passages across the library.
Where it is preached
- 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…
- 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…