Malachi 3:5 Cross References
Malachi 3:5
5: At that time I will put you on trial. I will be a ready witness against all sorcerers and adulterers and liars. I will speak against those who cheat employees of their wages, who oppress widows and orphans, or who deprive the foreigners living among you of justice, for these people do not fear me," says the LORD Almighty.
James 5:8
- You, too, must be patient. And take courage, for the coming of the Lord is near.
- Don't grumble about each other, my brothers and sisters, or God will judge you. For look! The great Judge is coming. He is standing at the door!
Hebrews 13:4
- Give honor to marriage, and remain faithful to one another in marriage. God will surely judge people who are immoral and those who commit adultery.
Deuteronomy 5:11
- " `Do not misuse the name of the LORD your God. The LORD will not let you go unpunished if you misuse his name.
Leviticus 19:13
- "Do not cheat or rob anyone. "Always pay your hired workers promptly.
Deuteronomy 27:19
- `Cursed is anyone who is unjust to foreigners, orphans, and widows.' And all the people will reply, `Amen.'
James 5:4
- For listen! Hear the cries of the field workers whom you have cheated of their pay. The wages you held back cry out against you. The cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.
Romans 3:8
- If you follow that kind of thinking, however, you might as well say that the more we sin the better it is! Those who say such things deserve to be condemned, yet some slander me by saying this is what I preach!
Deuteronomy 5:17
- " `Do not murder.
- " `Do not commit adultery.
- " `Do not steal.
- " `Do not testify falsely against your neighbor.
- " `Do not covet your neighbor's wife. Do not covet your neighbor's house or land, male or female servant, ox or donkey, or anything else your neighbor owns.'
Jeremiah 29:23
- For these men have done terrible things among my people. They have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives and have lied in my name. I am a witness to this," says the LORD.
Malachi 2:14
- You cry out, "Why has the LORD abandoned us?" I'll tell you why! Because the LORD witnessed the vows you and your wife made to each other on your wedding day when you were young. But you have been disloyal to her, though she remained your faithful companion, the wife of your marriage vows.
Deuteronomy 24:17
- "True justice must be given to foreigners living among you and to orphans, and you must never accept a widow's garment in pledge of her debt.
Proverbs 22:22
- Do not rob the poor because they are poor or exploit the needy in court.
- For the LORD is their defender. He will injure anyone who injures them.
Psalms 98:9
- before the LORD. For the LORD is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world with justice, and the nations with fairness.
Luke 23:40
- But the other criminal protested, "Don't you fear God even when you are dying?
Proverbs 16:6
- Unfailing love and faithfulness cover sin; evil is avoided by fear of the LORD.
Psalms 36:1
- Sin whispers to the wicked, deep within their hearts. They have no fear of God to restrain them.
Genesis 42:18
- On the third day Joseph said to them, "I am a God-fearing man. If you do as I say, you will live.
Hebrews 10:30
- For we know the one who said, "I will take vengeance. I will repay those who deserve it." He also said, "The Lord will judge his own people."
- It is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Malachi 2:17
- 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?"
Exodus 22:21
- "Do not oppress foreigners in any way. Remember, you yourselves were once foreigners in the land of Egypt.
- "Do not exploit widows or orphans.
- If you do and they cry out to me, then I will surely help them.
- My anger will blaze forth against you, and I will kill you with the sword. Your wives will become widows, and your children will become fatherless.
Leviticus 20:10
- "If a man commits adultery with another man's wife, both the man and the woman must be put to death.
Leviticus 20:6
- "If any among the people are unfaithful by consulting and following mediums or psychics, I will turn against them and cut them off from the community.
Jude 1:14
- Now Enoch, who lived seven generations after Adam, prophesied about these people. He said, "Look, the Lord is coming with thousands of his holy ones.
- He will bring the people of the world to judgment. He will convict the ungodly of all the evil things they have done in rebellion and of all the insults that godless sinners have spoken against him."
Exodus 18:21
- But find some capable, honest men who fear God and hate bribes. Appoint them as judges over groups of one thousand, one hundred, fifty, and ten.
Galatians 5:19
- When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, your lives will produce these evil results: sexual immorality, impure thoughts, eagerness for lustful pleasure,
- idolatry, participation in demonic activities, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, divisions, the feeling that everyone is wrong except those in your own little group,
- envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other kinds of sin. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
Deuteronomy 24:14
- "Never take advantage of poor laborers, whether fellow Israelites or foreigners living in your towns.
- Pay them their wages each day before sunset because they are poor and are counting on it. Otherwise they might cry out to the LORD against you, and it would be counted against you as sin.
Micah 1:2
- Attention! Let all the people of the world listen! The Sovereign LORD has made accusations against you; the Lord speaks from his holy Temple.
Psalms 50:3
- Our God approaches with the noise of thunder. Fire devours everything in his way, and a great storm rages around him.
- Heaven and earth will be his witnesses as he judges his people:
- "Bring my faithful people to me--those who made a covenant with me by giving sacrifices."
- Then let the heavens proclaim his justice, for God himself will be the judge.
- "O my people, listen as I speak. Here are my charges against you, O Israel: I am God, your God!
Matthew 23:13
- "How terrible it will be for you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you won't let others enter the Kingdom of Heaven, and you won't go in yourselves.
- See Footnote
- Yes, how terrible it will be for you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. For you cross land and sea to make one convert, and then you turn him into twice the son of hell as you yourselves are.
- "Blind guides! How terrible it will be for you! For you say that it means nothing to swear 'by God's Temple'--you can break that oath. But then you say that it is binding to swear 'by the gold in the Temple.'
- Blind fools! Which is greater, the gold, or the Temple that makes the gold sacred?
Leviticus 20:27
- "Men and women among you who act as mediums or psychics must be put to death by stoning. They are guilty of a capital offense."
Revelation 21:8
- But cowards who turn away from me, and unbelievers, and the corrupt, and murderers, and the immoral, and those who practice witchcraft, and idol worshipers, and all liars--their doom is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death."
Psalms 96:13
- before the LORD! For the LORD is coming! He is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness and all the nations with his truth.
Revelation 22:15
- Outside the city are the dogs--the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idol worshipers, and all who love to live a lie.
Genesis 20:11
- "Well," Abraham said, "I figured this to be a godless place. I thought, `They will want my wife and will kill me to get her.'
1 Corinthians 6:9
- Don't you know that those who do wrong will have no share in the Kingdom of God? Don't fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, who are idol worshipers, adulterers, male prostitutes, homosexuals,
- thieves, greedy people, drunkards, abusers, and swindlers--none of these will have a share in the Kingdom of God.
Proverbs 8:13
- All who fear the LORD will hate evil. That is why I hate pride, arrogance, corruption, and perverted speech.
Ezekiel 34:20
- "Therefore, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will surely judge between the fat sheep and the scrawny sheep.
- For you fat sheep push and butt and crowd my sick and hungry flock until they are scattered to distant lands.
- So I will rescue my flock, and they will no longer be abused and destroyed. And I will judge between one sheep and another.
Nehemiah 5:15
- This was quite a contrast to the former governors who had laid heavy burdens on the people, demanding a daily ration of food and wine, besides a pound of silver. Even their assistants took advantage of the people. But because of my fear of God, I did not act that way.
Psalms 81:8
- "Listen to me, O my people, while I give you stern warnings. O Israel, if you would only listen!
1 Thessalonians 4:6
- Never cheat a Christian brother in this matter by taking his wife, for the Lord avenges all such sins, as we have solemnly warned you before.
Exodus 1:17
- But because the midwives feared God, they refused to obey the king and allowed the boys to live, too.
James 5:12
- But most of all, my brothers and sisters, never take an oath, by heaven or earth or anything else. Just say a simple yes or no, so that you will not sin and be condemned for it.
Proverbs 23:10
- Don't steal the land of defenseless orphans by moving the ancient boundary markers,
- for their Redeemer is strong. He himself will bring their charges against you.
Jeremiah 7:9
- Do you really think you can steal, murder, commit adultery, lie, and worship Baal and all those other new gods of yours,
- 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?
Zechariah 5:3
- Then he said to me, "This scroll contains the curse that is going out over the entire land. One side says that those who steal will be banished from the land; the other side says that those who swear falsely will be banished from the land.
- And this is what the LORD Almighty says: I am sending this curse into the house of every thief and into the house of everyone who swears falsely by my name. And my curse will remain in that house until it is completely destroyed--even its timbers and stones."
Ezekiel 22:6
- "Every leader in Israel who lives within your walls is bent on murder.
- Fathers and mothers are contemptuously ignored. Resident foreigners are forced to pay for protection. Orphans and widows are wronged and oppressed.
- Inside your walls you despise my holy things and violate my Sabbath days of rest.
- People accuse others falsely and send them to their death. You are filled with idol worshipers and people who take part in lewd activities.
- Men sleep with their fathers' wives and have intercourse with women who are menstruating.
Jeremiah 22:13
- And the LORD says, "Destruction is certain for Jehoiakim, who builds his palace with forced labor. By not paying wages, he builds injustice into its walls and oppression into its doorframes and ceilings.
- He says, `I will build a magnificent palace with huge rooms and many windows, paneled throughout with fragrant cedar and painted a lovely red.'
- "But a beautiful palace does not make a great king! Why did your father, Josiah, reign so long? Because he was just and right in all his dealings. That is why God blessed him.
- He made sure that justice and help were given to the poor and needy, and everything went well for him. Isn't that what it means to know me?" asks the LORD.
- "But you! You are full of selfish greed and dishonesty! You murder the innocent, oppress the poor, and reign ruthlessly."