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MAL 2:1
Malachi 2:1
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And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for
you. |
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MAL 2:2
Malachi 2:2
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If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay
it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even
send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them
already, because ye do not lay it to heart. |
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MAL 2:3
Malachi 2:3
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Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread
dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take
you away with it. |
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MAL 2:4
Malachi 2:4
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And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment
unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts. |
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MAL 2:5
Malachi 2:5
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My covenant was with him of life and peace;
and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before
my name. |
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MAL 2:6
Malachi 2:6
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The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity
was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn
many away from iniquity. |
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MAL 2:7
Malachi 2:7
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For the priest's lips should keep knowledge,
and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD
of hosts. |
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MAL 2:8
Malachi 2:8
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But ye are departed out of the way; ye have
caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith
the LORD of hosts. |
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MAL 2:9
Malachi 2:9
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Therefore have I also made you contemptible
and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have
been partial in the law. |
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MAL 2:10
Malachi 2:10
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Have we not all one father? hath not one God
created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning
the covenant of our fathers? |
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MAL 2:11
Malachi 2:11
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Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination
is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness
of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god. |
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MAL 2:12
Malachi 2:12
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The LORD will cut off the man that doeth this,
the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth
an offering unto the LORD of hosts. |
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MAL 2:13
Malachi 2:13
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And this have ye done again, covering the altar
of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth
not the offering any more, or receiveth it with good will at your hand. |
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MAL 2:14
Malachi 2:14
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Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath
been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt
treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. |
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MAL 2:15
Malachi 2:15
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And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue
of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take
heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. |
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MAL 2:16
Malachi 2:16
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For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that
he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the
LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously. |
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MAL 2:17
Malachi 2:17
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Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet
ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is
good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God
of judgment? |
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