Malachi 3:7 Cross References

Malachi 3:7

7: 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?'

Zechariah 1:3

  1. Therefore, say to the people, `This is what the LORD Almighty says: Return to me, and I will return to you, says the LORD Almighty.'

Deuteronomy 31:20

  1. For I will bring them into the land I swore to give their ancestors--a land flowing with milk and honey. There they will become prosperous; they will eat all the food they want and become well nourished. Then they will begin to worship other gods; they will despise me and break my covenant.

Romans 10:21

  1. But regarding Israel, God said, "All day long I opened my arms to them, but they kept disobeying me and arguing with me."

Jeremiah 3:12

  1. Therefore, go and say these words to Israel, `This is what the LORD says: O Israel, my faithless people, come home to me again, for I am merciful. I will not be angry with you forever.
  2. Only acknowledge your guilt. Admit that you rebelled against the LORD your God and committed adultery against him by worshiping idols under every green tree. Confess that you refused to follow me. I, the LORD, have spoken!'"
  3. "Return home, you wayward children," says the LORD, "for I am your husband. I will bring you again to the land of Israel--one from here and two from there, from wherever you are scattered.

Isaiah 55:6

  1. Seek the LORD while you can find him. Call on him now while he is near.
  2. Let the people turn from their wicked deeds. Let them banish from their minds the very thought of doing wrong! Let them turn to the LORD that he may have mercy on them. Yes, turn to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Luke 15:16

  1. The boy became so hungry that even the pods he was feeding the pigs looked good to him. But no one gave him anything.

Hosea 14:1

  1. Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for your sins have brought you down.

Nehemiah 9:28

  1. "But when all was going well, your people turned to sin again, and once more you let their enemies conquer them. Yet whenever your people cried to you again for help, you listened once more from heaven. In your wonderful mercy, you rescued them repeatedly!
  2. You warned them to return to your law, but they became proud and obstinate and disobeyed your commands. They did not follow your regulations, by which people will find life if only they obey. They stubbornly turned their backs on you and refused to listen.
  3. In your love, you were patient with them for many years. You sent your Spirit, who, through the prophets, warned them about their sins. But still they wouldn't listen! So once again you allowed the pagan inhabitants of the land to conquer them.

Leviticus 26:40

  1. "But at last my people will confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors for betraying me and being hostile toward me.
  2. Finally, when I have given full expression to my hostility and have brought them to the land of their enemies, then at last their disobedient hearts will be humbled, and they will pay for their sins.
  3. Then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, with Isaac, and with Abraham, and I will remember the land.

Romans 10:3

  1. For they don't understand God's way of making people right with himself. Instead, they are clinging to their own way of getting right with God by trying to keep the law. They won't go along with God's way.

Jeremiah 3:22

  1. "My wayward children," says the LORD, "come back to me, and I will heal your wayward hearts.Yes, we will come," the people reply, "for you are the LORD our God.

James 4:8

  1. Draw close to God, and God will draw close to you. Wash your hands, you sinners; purify your hearts, you hypocrites.

Deuteronomy 4:29

  1. From there you will search again for the LORD your God. And if you search for him with all your heart and soul, you will find him.
  2. "When those bitter days have come upon you far in the future, you will finally return to the LORD your God and listen to what he tells you.
  3. For the LORD your God is merciful--he will not abandon you or destroy you or forget the solemn covenant he made with your ancestors.

Isaiah 65:2

  1. "I opened my arms to my own people all day long, but they have rebelled. They follow their own evil paths and thoughts.

Deuteronomy 30:1

  1. "Suppose all these things happen to you--the blessings and the curses I have listed--and you meditate on them as you are living among the nations to which the LORD your God has exiled you.
  2. If at that time you return to the LORD your God, and you and your children begin wholeheartedly to obey all the commands I have given you today,
  3. then the LORD your God will restore your fortunes. He will have mercy on you and gather you back from all the nations where he has scattered you.
  4. Though you are at the ends of the earth, the LORD your God will go and find you and bring you back again.

Deuteronomy 9:7

  1. "Remember how angry you made the LORD your God out in the wilderness. From the day you left Egypt until now, you have constantly rebelled against him.
  2. Remember how angry you made the LORD at Mount Sinai, where he was ready to destroy you.
  3. That was when I was on the mountain receiving the tablets of stone inscribed with the covenant that the LORD had made with you. I was there for forty days and forty nights, and all that time I ate nothing and drank no water.
  4. The LORD gave me the covenant, the tablets on which God himself had written all the words he had spoken to you from the fire on the mountain.
  5. "At the end of the forty days and nights, the LORD handed me the two stone tablets with the covenant inscribed on them.

Ezekiel 20:13

  1. "But the people of Israel rebelled against me, and they refused to obey my laws there in the wilderness. They wouldn't obey my instructions even though obedience would have given them life. And they also violated my Sabbath days. So I threatened to pour out my fury on them, and I made plans to utterly consume them in the desert.

1 Kings 8:47

  1. But in that land of exile, they may turn to you again in repentance and pray, `We have sinned, done evil, and acted wickedly.'
  2. Then if they turn to you with their whole heart and soul and pray toward the land you gave to their ancestors, toward this city you have chosen, and toward this Temple I have built to honor your name,
  3. then hear their prayers from heaven where you live. Uphold their cause

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?'

Ezekiel 20:28

  1. for when I brought them into the land I had promised them, they offered sacrifices and incense on every high hill and under every green tree they saw! They roused my fury as they offered up sacrifices to their gods. They brought their perfumes and incense and poured out their drink offerings to them!

Nehemiah 9:26

  1. "But despite all this, they were disobedient and rebelled against you. They threw away your law, they killed the prophets who encouraged them to return to you, and they committed terrible blasphemies.

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?'

Ezekiel 20:8

  1. "But they rebelled against me and would not listen. They did not get rid of their idols or forsake the gods of Egypt. Then I threatened to pour out my fury on them to satisfy my anger while they were still in Egypt.

Deuteronomy 31:27

  1. For I know how rebellious and stubborn you are. Even now, while I am still with you, you have rebelled against the LORD. How much more rebellious will you be after my death!
  2. Now summon all the leaders and officials of your tribes so that I can speak to them and call heaven and earth to witness against them.
  3. I know that after my death you will become utterly corrupt and will turn from the path I have commanded you to follow. In the days to come, disaster will come down on you, for you will make the LORD very angry by doing what is evil in his sight."

Nehemiah 9:16

  1. But our ancestors were a proud and stubborn lot, and they refused to obey your commands.
  2. "They refused to listen and did not remember the miracles you had done for them. Instead, they rebelled and appointed a leader to take them back to their slavery in Egypt! But you are a God of forgiveness, gracious and merciful, slow to become angry, and full of unfailing love and mercy. You did not abandon them,

Psalms 78:8

  1. Then they will not be like their ancestors--stubborn, rebellious, and unfaithful, refusing to give their hearts to God.
  2. The warriors of Ephraim, though fully armed, turned their backs and fled when the day of battle came.
  3. They did not keep God's covenant, and they refused to live by his law.

Luke 11:48

  1. Murderers! You agree with your ancestors that what they did was right. You would have done the same yourselves.
  2. This is what God in his wisdom said about you: 'I will send prophets and apostles to them, and they will kill some and persecute the others.'
  3. "And you of this generation will be held responsible for the murder of all God's prophets from the creation of the world--
  4. from the murder of Abel to the murder of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, it will surely be charged against you.

Nehemiah 1:8

  1. "Please remember what you told your servant Moses: 'If you sin, I will scatter you among the nations.
  2. But if you return to me and obey my commands, even if you are exiled to the ends of the earth, I will bring you back to the place I have chosen for my name to be honored.'

Matthew 23:27

  1. "How terrible it will be for you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs--beautiful on the outside but filled on the inside with dead people's bones and all sorts of impurity.

Ezekiel 18:30

  1. "Therefore, I will judge each of you, O people of Israel, according to your actions, says the Sovereign LORD. Turn from your sins! Don't let them destroy you!
  2. Put all your rebellion behind you, and get for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For why should you die, O people of Israel?
  3. I don't want you to die, says the Sovereign LORD. Turn back and live!

Ezekiel 20:21

  1. "But their children, too, rebelled against me. They refused to keep my laws and follow my instructions, even though obeying them would have given them life. And they also violated my Sabbath days. So again I threatened to pour out my fury on them in the wilderness.

Romans 7:9

  1. I felt fine when I did not understand what the law demanded. But when I learned the truth, I realized I had broken the law and was a sinner, doomed to die.

Jeremiah 7:26

  1. But my people have not listened to me or even tried to hear. They have been stubborn and sinful--even worse than their ancestors.

Acts 7:51

  1. "You stubborn people! You are heathen at heart and deaf to the truth. Must you forever resist the Holy Spirit? But your ancestors did, and so do you!
  2. Name one prophet your ancestors didn't persecute! They even killed the ones who predicted the coming of the Righteous One--the Messiah whom you betrayed and murdered.
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