Malachi 1:10 Cross References
Malachi 1:10
10: "I wish that someone among you would shut the Temple doors so that these worthless sacrifices could not be offered! I am not at all pleased with you," says the LORD Almighty, "and I will not accept your offerings.
Jeremiah 6:20
- There is no use now in offering me sweet incense from Sheba. Keep your expensive perfumes! I cannot accept your burnt offerings. Your sacrifices have no sweet fragrance for me."
Isaiah 1:11
- "I am sick of your sacrifices," says the LORD. "Don't bring me any more burnt offerings! I don't want the fat from your rams or other animals. I don't want to see the blood from your offerings of bulls and rams and goats.
- Why do you keep parading through my courts with your worthless sacrifices?
- The incense you bring me is a stench in my nostrils! Your celebrations of the new moon and the Sabbath day, and your special days for fasting--even your most pious meetings--are all sinful and false. I want nothing more to do with them.
- I hate all your festivals and sacrifices. I cannot stand the sight of them!
- From now on, when you lift up your hands in prayer, I will refuse to look. Even though you offer many prayers, I will not listen. For your hands are covered with the blood of your innocent victims.
Micah 3:11
- You rulers govern for the bribes you can get; you priests teach God's laws only for a price; you prophets won't prophesy unless you are paid. Yet all of you claim you are depending on the LORD. "No harm can come to us," you say, "for the LORD is here among us."
Jeremiah 8:10
- I will give their wives and their farms to others. From the least to the greatest, they trick others to get what does not belong to them. Yes, even my prophets and priests are like that.
1 Peter 5:2
- Care for the flock of God entrusted to you. Watch over it willingly, not grudgingly--not for what you will get out of it, but because you are eager to serve God.
Amos 5:21
- "I hate all your show and pretense--the hypocrisy of your religious festivals and solemn assemblies.
- I will not accept your burnt offerings and grain offerings. I won't even notice all your choice peace offerings.
- Away with your hymns of praise! They are only noise to my ears. I will not listen to your music, no matter how lovely it is.
- Instead, I want to see a mighty flood of justice, a river of righteous living that will never run dry.
Hosea 5:6
- Then at last, they will come with their flocks and herds to offer sacrifices to the LORD. But it will be too late! They will not find him, because he has withdrawn from them, and they are now alone.
Jeremiah 14:12
- When they fast in my presence, I will pay no attention. When they present their burnt offerings and grain offerings to me, I will not accept them. In return, I will give them only war, famine, and disease."
Job 1:9
- Satan replied to the LORD, "Yes, Job fears God, but not without good reason!
- You have always protected him and his home and his property from harm. You have made him prosperous in everything he does. Look how rich he is!
- But take away everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face!"
Hebrews 10:38
- And a righteous person will live by faith. But I will have no pleasure in anyone who turns away."
Isaiah 56:11
- And they are as greedy as dogs, never satisfied. They are stupid shepherds, all following their own path, all of them intent on personal gain.
- "Come," they say. "We will get some wine and have a party. Let's all get drunk. Let this go on and on, and tomorrow will be even better."
John 10:12
- A hired hand will run when he sees a wolf coming. He will leave the sheep because they aren't his and he isn't their shepherd. And so the wolf attacks them and scatters the flock.
Philippians 2:21
- All the others care only for themselves and not for what matters to Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 9:13
- Don't you know that those who work in the Temple get their meals from the food brought to the Temple as offerings? And those who serve at the altar get a share of the sacrificial offerings.
Jeremiah 6:13
- "From the least to the greatest, they trick others to get what does not belong to them. Yes, even my prophets and priests are like that!