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1
|Malaquias 2:1|
“And now this admonition is for you, O priests.
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2
|Malaquias 2:2|
If you do not listen, and if you do not set your heart to honour my name,” says the LORD Almighty, “I will send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already cursed them, because you have not set your heart to honour me.
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3
|Malaquias 2:3|
“Because of you I will rebuke [Or cut off (see Septuagint)] your descendants; [Or will blight your corn] I will spread on your faces the offal from your festival sacrifices, and you will be carried off with it.
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4
|Malaquias 2:4|
And you will know that I have sent you this admonition so that my covenant with Levi may continue,” says the LORD Almighty.
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5
|Malaquias 2:5|
“My covenant was with him, a covenant of life and peace, and I gave them to him; this called for reverence and he revered me and stood in awe of my name.
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6
|Malaquias 2:6|
True instruction was in his mouth and nothing false was found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many from sin.
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7
|Malaquias 2:7|
“For the lips of a priest ought to preserve knowledge, and from his mouth men should seek instruction — because he is the messenger of the LORD Almighty.
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8
|Malaquias 2:8|
But you have turned from the way and by your teaching have caused many to stumble; you have violated the covenant with Levi,” says the LORD Almighty.
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9
|Malaquias 2:9|
“So I have caused you to be despised and humiliated before all the people, because you have not followed my ways but have shown partiality in matters of the law.”
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10
|Malaquias 2:10|
Have we not all one Father? [Or father] Did not one God create us? Why do we profane the covenant of our fathers by breaking faith with one another?
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