Malachi 1:2 Cross References

Malachi 1:2

2: "I have loved you deeply," says the LORD. But you retort, "Really? How have you loved us?" And the LORD replies, "I showed my love for you by loving your ancestor Jacob. Yet Esau was Jacob's brother,

Isaiah 41:8

  1. "But as for you, Israel my servant, Jacob my chosen one, descended from my friend Abraham,
  2. I have called you back from the ends of the earth so you can serve me. For I have chosen you and will not throw you away.

Deuteronomy 10:15

  1. Yet the LORD chose your ancestors as the objects of his love. And he chose you, their descendants, above every other nation, as is evident today.

Jeremiah 31:3

  1. Long ago the LORD said to Israel: "I have loved you, my people, with an everlasting love. With unfailing love I have drawn you to myself.

Romans 11:28

  1. Many of the Jews are now enemies of the Good News. But this has been to your benefit, for God has given his gifts to you Gentiles. Yet the Jews are still his chosen people because of his promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
  2. For God's gifts and his call can never be withdrawn.

Deuteronomy 4:37

  1. Because he loved your ancestors, he chose to bless their descendants and personally brought you out of Egypt with a great display of power.

Deuteronomy 7:6

  1. For you are a holy people, who belong to the LORD your God. Of all the people on earth, the LORD your God has chosen you to be his own special treasure.
  2. "The LORD did not choose you and lavish his love on you because you were larger or greater than other nations, for you were the smallest of all nations!
  3. It was simply because the LORD loves you, and because he was keeping the oath he had sworn to your ancestors. That is why the LORD rescued you with such amazing power from your slavery under Pharaoh in Egypt.

Deuteronomy 32:8

  1. When the Most High assigned lands to the nations, when he divided up the human race, he established the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of angelic beings.
  2. For the people of Israel belong to the LORD; Jacob is his special possession.
  3. "He found them in a desert land, in an empty, howling wasteland. He surrounded them and watched over them; he guarded them as his most precious possession.
  4. Like an eagle that rouses her chicks and hovers over her young, so he spread his wings to take them in and carried them aloft on his pinions.
  5. The LORD alone guided them; they lived without any foreign gods.

Romans 9:10

  1. This son was our ancestor Isaac. When he grew up, he married Rebekah, who gave birth to twins.
  2. But before they were born, before they had done anything good or bad, she received a message from God. (This message proves that God chooses according to his own plan,
  3. not according to our good or bad works.) She was told, "The descendants of your older son will serve the descendants of your younger son."
  4. In the words of the Scriptures, "I loved Jacob, but I rejected Esau."

Malachi 3:13

  1. "You have said terrible things about me," says the LORD. "But you say, `What do you mean? How have we spoken against you?'
  2. "You have said, `What's the use of serving God? What have we gained by obeying his commands or by trying to show the LORD Almighty that we are sorry for our sins?

Genesis 48:4

  1. He said to me, `I will make you a multitude of nations, and I will give this land of Canaan to you and your descendants as an everlasting possession.'

Isaiah 43:4

  1. Others died that you might live. I traded their lives for yours because you are precious to me. You are honored, and I love you.

Genesis 27:33

  1. Isaac began to tremble uncontrollably and said, "Then who was it that just served me wild game? I have already eaten it, and I blessed him with an irrevocable blessing before you came."

Genesis 28:13

  1. At the top of the stairway stood the LORD, and he said, "I am the LORD, the God of your grandfather Abraham and the God of your father, Isaac. The ground you are lying on belongs to you. I will give it to you and your descendants.
  2. Your descendants will be as numerous as the dust of the earth! They will cover the land from east to west and from north to south. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your descendants.

Genesis 27:27

  1. So Jacob went over and kissed him. And when Isaac caught the smell of his clothes, he was finally convinced, and he blessed his son. He said, "The smell of my son is the good smell of the open fields that the LORD has blessed.
  2. May God always give you plenty of dew for healthy crops and good harvests of grain and wine.
  3. May many nations become your servants. May you be the master of your brothers. May all your mother's sons bow low before you. All who curse you are cursed, and all who bless you are blessed."
  4. As soon as Isaac had blessed Jacob, and almost before Jacob had left his father, Esau returned from his hunting trip.

Malachi 3:7

  1. Ever since the days of your ancestors, you have scorned my laws and failed to obey them. Now return to me, and I will return to you," says the LORD Almighty. "But you ask, `How can we return when we have never gone away?'
  2. "Should people cheat God? Yet you have cheated me! "But you ask, `What do you mean? When did we ever cheat you?'"You have cheated me of the tithes and offerings due to me.

Malachi 1:6

  1. The LORD Almighty says to the priests: "A son honors his father, and a servant respects his master. I am your father and master, but where are the honor and respect I deserve? You have despised my name! "But you ask, `How have we ever despised your name?'
  2. "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.

Malachi 2:17

  1. You have wearied the LORD with your words. "Wearied him?" you ask. "How have we wearied him?" You have wearied him by suggesting that the LORD favors evildoers since he does not punish them. You have wearied him by asking, "Where is the God of justice?"

Genesis 28:3

  1. May God Almighty bless you and give you many children. And may your descendants become a great assembly of nations!
  2. May God pass on to you and your descendants the blessings he promised to Abraham. May you own this land where we now are foreigners, for God gave it to Abraham."

Jeremiah 2:5

  1. This is what the LORD says: "What sin did your ancestors find in me that led them to stray so far? They worshiped foolish idols, only to become foolish themselves.

Genesis 32:28

  1. "Your name will no longer be Jacob," the man told him. "It is now Israel, because you have struggled with both God and men and have won."
  2. "What is your name?" Jacob asked him. "Why do you ask?" the man replied. Then he blessed Jacob there.
  3. Jacob named the place Peniel--"face of God"--for he said, "I have seen God face to face, yet my life has been spared."

Jeremiah 2:31

  1. "O my people, listen to the words of the LORD! Have I been like a desert to Israel? Have I been to them a land of darkness? Why then do my people say, `At last we are free from God! We won't have anything to do with him anymore!'

Genesis 25:23

  1. And the LORD told her, "The sons in your womb will become two rival nations. One nation will be stronger than the other; the descendants of your older son will serve the descendants of your younger son."

Luke 10:29

  1. The man wanted to justify his actions, so he asked Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?"
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