Malachi 2:9
“So I in turn have made you despised and humiliated before all the people, because you have not kept My ways, but have shown partiality in matters of the law.”
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.
Note have been…: or, lifted up the face against: Heb. accepted faces
“Therefore I have also made you contemptible and wicked before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.
Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have had respect of persons in the law.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- made
- Malachi 2:3; 1 Samuel 2:30; Proverbs 10:7; Daniel 12:2, 3; Micah 3:6, 7
- before
- 1 Kings 22:28; Jeremiah 28:15, 16; Jeremiah 29:20–22, 31, 32; Ezekiel 13:12–16, 21; Mark 7:13, 14; Luke 20:45–47
- but
- Malachi 2:8; Matthew 5:21, 22, 27, 28, 33–37, 43, 44; Matthew 19:17, 18; Matthew 23:16–24; Mark 7:8–13; Luke 10:29; Luke 11:42; Romans 7:7–10
- have been partial in
- or, lifted up the face against. Heb.accepted faces.
- Deuteronomy 1:17; Galatians 2:6