Malachi 1:13 Cross References

Malachi 1:13

13: You say, `It's too hard to serve the LORD,' and you turn up your noses at his commands," says the LORD Almighty. "Think of it! Animals that are stolen and mutilated, crippled and sick--presented as offerings! Should I accept from you such offerings as these?" asks the LORD.

Micah 6:3

  1. O my people, what have I done to make you turn from me? Tell me why your patience is exhausted! Answer me!

Zechariah 7:5

  1. "Say to all your people and your priests, `During those seventy years of exile, when you fasted and mourned in the summer and at the festival in early autumn, was it really for me that you were fasting?
  2. And even now in your holy festivals, you don't think about me but only of pleasing yourselves.

Jeremiah 7:21

  1. This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: "Away with your burnt offerings and sacrifices! Eat them yourselves!
  2. When I led your ancestors out of Egypt, it was not burnt offerings and sacrifices I wanted from them.
  3. This is what I told them: `Obey me, and I will be your God, and you will be my people. Only do as I say, and all will be well!'
  4. "But my people would not listen to me. They kept on doing whatever they wanted, following the stubborn desires of their evil hearts. They went backward instead of forward.

Mark 14:37

  1. Then he returned and found the disciples asleep. "Simon!" he said to Peter. "Are you asleep? Couldn't you stay awake and watch with me even one hour?
  2. Keep alert and pray. Otherwise temptation will overpower you. For though the spirit is willing enough, the body is weak."

Malachi 2:13

  1. Here is another thing you do. You cover the LORD's altar with tears, weeping and groaning because he pays no attention to your offerings, and he doesn't accept them with pleasure.

Malachi 1:7

  1. "You have despised my name by offering defiled sacrifices on my altar. "Then you ask, `How have we defiled the sacrifices?'"You defile them by saying the altar of the LORD deserves no respect.
  2. When you give blind animals as sacrifices, isn't that wrong? And isn't it wrong to offer animals that are crippled and diseased? Try giving gifts like that to your governor, and see how pleased he is!" says the LORD Almighty.

Matthew 6:16

  1. "And when you fast, don't make it obvious, as the hypocrites do, who try to look pale and disheveled so people will admire them for their fasting. I assure you, that is the only reward they will ever get.

Matthew 6:1

  1. "Take care! Don't do your good deeds publicly, to be admired, because then you will lose the reward from your Father in heaven.
  2. When you give a gift to someone in need, don't shout about it as the hypocrites do--blowing trumpets in the synagogues and streets to call attention to their acts of charity! I assure you, they have received all the reward they will ever get.

Isaiah 1:12

  1. Why do you keep parading through my courts with your worthless sacrifices?

Mark 14:4

  1. Some of those at the table were indignant. "Why was this expensive perfume wasted?" they asked.
  2. "She could have sold it for a small fortune and given the money to the poor!" And they scolded her harshly.

Isaiah 57:6

  1. Your gods are the smooth stones in the valleys. You worship them with drink offerings and grain offerings. They, not I, are your inheritance. Does all this make me happy?

Ezekiel 44:31

  1. The priests may never eat meat from any bird or animal that dies a natural death or that dies after being attacked by another animal.

1 Samuel 2:29

  1. So why do you scorn my sacrifices and offerings? Why do you honor your sons more than me--for you and they have become fat from the best offerings of my people!

Ezekiel 4:14

  1. Then I said, "O Sovereign LORD, must I be defiled by using human dung? For I have never been defiled before. From the time I was a child until now I have never eaten any animal that died of sickness or that I found dead. And I have never eaten any of the animals that our laws forbid."

Jeremiah 7:9

  1. Do you really think you can steal, murder, commit adultery, lie, and worship Baal and all those other new gods of yours,
  2. and then come here and stand before me in my Temple and chant, "We are safe!"--only to go right back to all those evils again?
  3. Do you think this Temple, which honors my name, is a den of thieves? I see all the evil going on there, says the LORD.

Amos 5:21

  1. "I hate all your show and pretense--the hypocrisy of your religious festivals and solemn assemblies.
  2. I will not accept your burnt offerings and grain offerings. I won't even notice all your choice peace offerings.
  3. 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.

Matthew 6:5

  1. "And now about prayer. When you pray, don't be like the hypocrites who love to pray publicly on street corners and in the synagogues where everyone can see them. I assure you, that is all the reward they will ever get.

Isaiah 43:22

  1. "But, my dear people, you refuse to ask for my help. You have grown tired of me!
  2. You have not brought me lambs for burnt offerings. You have not honored me with sacrifices, though I have not burdened and wearied you with my requests for grain offerings and incense.

Leviticus 22:19

  1. it will be accepted only if it is a male animal with no physical defects. It may be either a bull, a ram, or a male goat.
  2. Do not bring an animal with physical defects, because it won't be accepted on your behalf.
  3. "If you bring a peace offering to the LORD from the herd or flock, whether to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering, you must offer an animal that has no physical defects of any kind.
  4. An animal that is blind, injured, mutilated, or that has a growth, an open sore, or a scab must never be offered to the LORD by fire on the altar.
  5. If the bull or lamb is deformed or stunted, it may still be offered as a freewill offering, but it may not be offered to fulfill a vow.

Amos 8:5

  1. You can't wait for the Sabbath day to be over and the religious festivals to end so you can get back to cheating the helpless. You measure out your grain in false measures and weigh it out on dishonest scales.

Leviticus 22:8

  1. The priests may never eat an animal that has died a natural death or has been torn apart by wild animals, for this would defile them. I am the LORD.

Deuteronomy 15:21

  1. But if this firstborn animal has any defect, such as being lame or blind, or if anything else is wrong with it, you must not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.
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