Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation The LORD Almighty says, "I wish one of you would close the Temple doors so as to prevent you from lighting useless fires on my altar. I am not pleased with you; I will not accept the offerings you bring me. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Who is there among you, that will shut the doors, and will kindle the fire on my altar gratis? I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord of hosts: and I will not receive a gift of your hand. Who. even. Job 1:9-11 And Satan answering, said: Doth Job fear God in vain? . . . Isaiah 56:11,12 And most impudent dogs, they never had enough: the shepherds themselves knew no understanding: all have turned aside into their own way, every one after his own gain, from the first even to the last. . . . Jeremiah 6:13 For from the least of them even to the greatest, all are given to covetousness: and from the prophet even to the priest, all are guilty of deceit. Jeremiah 8:10 Therefore will I give their women to strangers, their fields to others for an inheritance: because from the least even to the greatest all follow covetousness: from the prophet even to the priest all deal deceitfully. Micah 3:11 You that build up Sion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. John 10:12 But the hireling and he that is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming and leaveth the sheep and flieth: and the wolf casteth and scattereth the sheep, Philippians 2:21 For all seek the things that are their own not the things that are Jesus Christ's. 1 Peter 5:2 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking care of it, not by constraint but willingly, according to God: not for filthy lucre's sake but voluntarily: neither. 1 Corinthians 9:13 Know you not that they who work in the holy place eat the things that are of the holy place; and they that serve the altar partake with the altar? I have. Isaiah 1:11-15 To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats. . . . Jeremiah 6:20 To what purpose do you bring me frankincense from Saba, and the sweet smelling cane from a far country? your holocausts are not acceptable, nor are your sacrifices pleasing to me. Amos 5:21-24 I hate, and have rejected your festivities: and I will not receive the odour of your assemblies. . . . Hebrews 10:38 But my just man liveth by faith: but if he withdraw himself, he shall not please my soul. Context The Polluted Offerings…9And now beseech ye the face of God, that he may have mercy on you, (for by your hand hath this been done,) if by any means he will receive your faces, saith the Lord of hosts. 10Who is there among you, that will shut the doors, and will kindle the fire on my altar gratis? I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord of hosts: and I will not receive a gift of your hand.11For from the rising of the sun even to the going down, my name is great among the Gentiles, and in every place there is sacrifice, and there is offered to my name a clean oblation: for my name is great among the Gentiles, saith the Lord of hosts.… Cross References Isaiah 1:11 To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats. Isaiah 1:13 Offer sacrifice no more in vain: incense is an abomination to me. The new moons, and the sabbaths and other festivals I will not abide, your assemblies are wicked. Jeremiah 14:10 Thus saith the Lord to this people, that have loved to move their feet, and have not rested, and have not pleased the Lord: He will now remember their iniquities, and visit their sins. Jeremiah 14:12 When they fast I will not hear their prayers: and if they offer holocausts and victims, I will not receive them: for I will consume them by the sword, and by famine, and by the pestilence. Hosea 5:6 With their flocks and with their herds, they shall go to seek the Lord, and shall not find him: he is withdrawn from them. Malachi 1:13 And you have said: Behold of our labour, and you puffed it away, saith the Lord of hosts, and you brought in of rapine the lame, and the sick, and brought in an offering: shall I accept it at your hands, saith the Lord? Malachi 2:12 The Lord will cut off the man that hath done this, both the master, and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering to the Lord of hosts. Jump to Previous Accept Altar Armies Doors Fire Fires Gates Hand Hosts Kindle Light Naught Nought Offering Pleased Pleasure Shut Temple Useless Uselessly VainJump to Next Accept Altar Armies Doors Fire Fires Gates Hand Hosts Kindle Light Naught Nought Offering Pleased Pleasure Shut Temple Useless Uselessly VainLinks Malachi 1:10 NIVMalachi 1:10 NLT Malachi 1:10 ESV Malachi 1:10 NASB Malachi 1:10 Bible Apps Malachi 1:10 Biblia Paralela Malachi 1:10 Chinese Bible Malachi 1:10 French Bible Malachi 1:10 German Bible Alphabetical: accept Almighty altar am among an and doors fire fires from gates hands hosts I kindle light LORD might my no nor not of offering Oh on one pleased says shut so temple that the there useless uselessly were who will with would you your OT Prophets: Malachi 1:10 Oh that there were one among you (Malachi Mal Ml) Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools |
    |