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Malachi 1:1 (NIV)

A prophecy: The word of the Lord to Israel through Malachi.

Malachi 1:2 (NIV)

“I have loved you,” says the Lord . “But you ask, ‘How have you loved us?’ “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the Lord . “Yet I have loved Jacob,

Malachi 1:3 (NIV)

but Esau I have hated, and I have turned his hill country into a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”

Edom may say, “Though we have been crushed, we will rebuild the ruins.” But this is what the Lord Almighty says: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Wicked Land, a people always under the wrath of the Lord .

Malachi 1:5 (NIV)

You will see it with your own eyes and say, ‘Great is the Lord —even beyond the borders of Israel!’

Malachi 1:6 (NIV)

“A son honors his father, and a slave his master. If I am a father, where is the honor due me? If I am a master, where is the respect due me?” says the Lord Almighty. “It is you priests who show contempt for my name. “But you ask, ‘How have we shown contempt for your name?’

Malachi 1:13 (NIV)

And you say, ‘What a burden!’ and you sniff at it contemptuously,” says the Lord Almighty. “When you bring injured, lame or diseased animals and offer them as sacrifices, should I accept them from your hands?” says the Lord .

Malachi 1:11 (NIV)

My name will be great among the nations, from where the sun rises to where it sets. In every place incense and pure offerings will be brought to me, because my name will be great among the nations,” says the Lord Almighty.

Malachi 1:8 (NIV)

When you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is that not wrong? When you sacrifice lame or diseased animals, is that not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you? Would he accept you?” says the Lord Almighty.

Malachi 1:7 (NIV)

“By offering defiled food on my altar. “But you ask, ‘How have we defiled you?’ “By saying that the Lord ’s table is contemptible.

Malachi 1:12 (NIV)

“But you profane it by saying, ‘The Lord’s table is defiled,’ and, ‘Its food is contemptible.’

Malachi 1:9 (NIV)

“Now plead with God to be gracious to us. With such offerings from your hands, will he accept you?”—says the Lord Almighty.

Malachi 1:10 (NIV)

“Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would not light useless fires on my altar! I am not pleased with you,” says the Lord Almighty, “and I will accept no offering from your hands.

Malachi 1:14 (NIV)

“Cursed is the cheat who has an acceptable male in his flock and vows to give it, but then sacrifices a blemished animal to the Lord. For I am a great king,” says the Lord Almighty, “and my name is to be feared among the nations.

Malachi 4:1 (NIV)

“Surely the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble, and the day that is coming will set them on fire,” says the Lord Almighty. “Not a root or a branch will be left to them.

Malachi 3:1 (NIV)

“I will send my messenger, who will prepare the way before me. Then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to his temple; the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, will come,” says the Lord Almighty.

Malachi 2:1 (NIV)

“And now, you priests, this warning is for you.

1 Timothy 5:7 (NIV)

Give the people these instructions, so that no one may be open to blame.

1 Timothy 5:12 (NIV)

Thus they bring judgment on themselves, because they have broken their first pledge.

1 John 5:4 (NIV)

for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.

1 John 5:8 (NIV)

the Spirit, the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement.

1 Samuel 5:2 (NIV)

Then they carried the ark into Dagon’s temple and set it beside Dagon.

1 Thessalonians 5:4 (NIV)

But you, brothers and sisters, are not in darkness so that this day should surprise you like a thief.

1 Thessalonians 5:21 (NIV)

but test them all; hold on to what is good,

1 Thessalonians 5:28 (NIV)

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.