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Malachi 2:17
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Malachi 2:17
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17 You have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet you say, “How have we wearied him?” By saying, “All who do evil are good in the sight of the Lord, and he delights in them.” Or by asking, “Where is the God of justice?”(A)
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Malachi 2:17
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Malachi 2:17
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Breaking Covenant Through Injustice
17 You have wearied(A) the Lord with your words.
“How have we wearied him?” you ask.(B)
By saying, “All who do evil are good in the eyes of the Lord, and he is pleased(C) with them” or “Where is the God of justice?(D)”
Isaiah 43:24
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Isaiah 43:24
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24 You have not bought me sweet cane with money
or satisfied me with the fat of your sacrifices.
Rather, you have burdened me with your sins;
you have wearied me with your iniquities.(A)
Isaiah 43:24
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Isaiah 43:24
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2 Peter 3:3-4
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2 Peter 3:3-4
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3 First of all you must understand this, that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and indulging their own lusts(A) 4 and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since our ancestors died,[a] all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation!”(B)
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- 3.4 Gk our fathers fell asleep
2 Peter 3:3-4
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2 Peter 3:3-4
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3 Above all, you must understand that in the last days(A) scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.(B) 4 They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised?(C) Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.”(D)
Zephaniah 1:12
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Zephaniah 1:12
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12 At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps,
and I will punish the people
who settle like dregs in wine,
those who say in their hearts,
“The Lord will not do good,
nor will he do harm.”(A)
Zephaniah 1:12
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Zephaniah 1:12
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Isaiah 5:18-20
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Isaiah 5:18-20
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18 Woe to those who drag iniquity along with cords of falsehood,
who drag sin along as with cart ropes,(A)
19 who say, “Let him make haste;
let him speed his work
that we may see it;
let the plan of the Holy One of Israel hasten to fulfillment,
that we may know it!”(B)
20 Woe to those who call evil good
and good evil,
who put darkness for light
and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter!(C)
Isaiah 5:18-20
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Isaiah 5:18-20
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Ecclesiastes 8:11
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Ecclesiastes 8:11
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11 Because sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the human heart is fully set to do evil.
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Ecclesiastes 8:11
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Ecclesiastes 8:11
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11 When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, people’s hearts are filled with schemes to do wrong.
Matthew 11:18-19
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Matthew 11:18-19
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18 “For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon’; 19 the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds.”[a](A)
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- 11.19 Other ancient authorities read children
Matthew 11:18-19
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Matthew 11:18-19
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18 For John came neither eating(A) nor drinking,(B) and they say, ‘He has a demon.’ 19 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’(C) But wisdom is proved right by her deeds.”
Malachi 1:6-7
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Malachi 1:6-7
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Corruption of the Priesthood
6 A son honors his father and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is the honor due me? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. You say, “How have we despised your name?”(A) 7 By offering polluted food on my altar. And you say, “How have we polluted it?”[a] By thinking that the Lord’s table may be despised.(B)
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- 1.7 Gk: Heb you
Malachi 1:6-7
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Malachi 1:6-7
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Breaking Covenant Through Blemished Sacrifices
6 “A son honors his father,(A) and a slave his master.(B) If I am a father, where is the honor due me? If I am a master, where is the respect(C) due me?” says the Lord Almighty.(D)
“It is you priests who show contempt for my name.
“But you ask,(E) ‘How have we shown contempt for your name?’
7 “By offering defiled food(F) on my altar.
“But you ask,(G) ‘How have we defiled you?’
“By saying that the Lord’s table(H) is contemptible.
Amos 2:13
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Amos 2:13
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13 So, I will press you down in your place,
just as a cart presses down
when it is full of sheaves.[a](A)
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- 2.13 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Amos 2:13
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Amos 2:13
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13 “Now then, I will crush you
as a cart crushes when loaded with grain.(A)
Ezekiel 16:43
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Ezekiel 16:43
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43 Because you have not remembered the days of your youth but have enraged me with all these things, therefore I have returned your deeds upon your head, says the Lord God.
Have you not committed lewdness beyond all your abominations?(A)
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Ezekiel 16:43
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Ezekiel 16:43
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43 “‘Because you did not remember(A) the days of your youth but enraged me with all these things, I will surely bring down(B) on your head what you have done, declares the Sovereign Lord. Did you not add lewdness to all your other detestable practices?(C)
Ezekiel 8:12
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Ezekiel 8:12
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12 Then he said to me, “Mortal, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in his room of images? For they say, ‘The Lord does not see us; the Lord has forsaken the land.’ ”
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Ezekiel 8:12
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Ezekiel 8:12
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12 He said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of Israel are doing in the darkness,(A) each at the shrine of his own idol? They say, ‘The Lord does not see(B) us; the Lord has forsaken the land.’”
Jeremiah 15:6
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Jeremiah 15:6
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6 You have rejected me, says the Lord;
you are going backward,
so I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you—
I am weary of relenting.(A)
Jeremiah 15:6
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Jeremiah 15:6
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Isaiah 30:18
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Isaiah 30:18
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God’s Promise to Zion
18 Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you;
therefore he will rise up to show mercy to you.
For the Lord is a God of justice;
blessed are all those who wait for him.(A)
Isaiah 30:18
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Isaiah 30:18
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