Malachi 2:10 “Do we not all have one Father? Did not one God create us? Why then do…”

Malachi 2:10

Do we not all have one Father? Did not one God create us? Why then do we break faith with one another so as to profane the covenant of our fathers?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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?

World English Bible

Don’t we all have one father? Hasn’t one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

American Standard Version

Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

Geneva Bible 1599

Haue we not all one father? hath not one God made vs? why doe we transgresse euery one against his brother, and breake the couenant of our fathers?

Darby Translation

Have we not all one father? Hath not one God created us? Why do we deal unfaithfully every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?

Young's Literal Translation

Have we not all one father? Hath not our God prepared us? Wherefore do we deal treacherously, Each against his brother, To pollute the covenant of our fathers?

Bible in Basic English

Have we not all one father? has not one God made us? why are we, every one of us, acting falsely to his brother, putting shame on the agreement of our fathers?

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Cross references

“all”

1 Corinthians 8:6 Ephesians 4:6 Isaiah 63:16 Isaiah 64:8 Matthew 3:9 Malachi 1:6

1 Corinthians 8:6 · BSB

yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we exist. And there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we exist.

Ephesians 4:6 · BSB

one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

Isaiah 63:16 · BSB

Yet You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O LORD, are our Father; our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name.

Isaiah 64:8 · BSB

But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.

Matthew 3:9 · BSB

And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.

Malachi 1:6 · BSB

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ‘How…

“hath”

Psalm 100:3 Job 31:15 Isaiah 43:1 Isaiah 43:7 Isaiah 43:15 Isaiah 44:2

Psalm 100:3 · BSB

Know that the LORD is God. It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.

Job 31:15 · BSB

Did not He who made me in the womb also make them? Did not the same One form us in the womb?

Isaiah 43:1 · BSB

But now, this is what the LORD says— He who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine!

Isaiah 43:7 · BSB

everyone called by My name and created for My glory, whom I have indeed formed and made.”

Isaiah 43:15 · BSB

I am the LORD, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, and your King.”

Isaiah 44:2 · BSB

This is the word of the LORD, your Maker, who formed you from the womb and who will help you: “Do not be afraid, O Jacob My servant, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

“why”

Malachi 2:11 Micah 7:2–6 Acts 7:26 Matthew 10:21 Matthew 22:16 1 Corinthians 6:6–8

Malachi 2:11 · BSB

Judah has broken faith; an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the LORD’s beloved sanctuary by marrying the daughter of a foreign god.

Micah 7:2–6 · BSB

The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt one another with a net.

Acts 7:26 · BSB

The next day he came upon two Israelites who were fighting, and he tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why are you mistreating each other?’

Matthew 10:21 · BSB

Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.

Matthew 22:16 · BSB

They sent their disciples to Him along with the Herodians. “Teacher,” they said, “we know that You are honest and that You teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. You seek favor from no one, because You pay no…

1 Corinthians 6:6–8 · BSB

Instead, one brother goes to law against another, and this in front of unbelievers!

“by”

Malachi 2:8 Exodus 34:10–16 Joshua 23:12–16 Ezra 9:11–14 Nehemiah 13:29 Ezra 10:2

Malachi 2:8 · BSB

But you have departed from the way, and your instruction has caused many to stumble. You have violated the covenant of Levi,” says the LORD of Hosts.

Exodus 34:10–16 · BSB

And the LORD said, “Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will perform wonders that have never been done in any nation in all the world. All the people among whom you live will see the LORD’s work, for…

Joshua 23:12–16 · BSB

For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them,

Ezra 9:11–14 · BSB

that You gave through Your servants the prophets, saying: ‘The land that you are entering to possess is a land polluted by the impurity of its peoples and the abominations with which they have filled it from end to end.

Nehemiah 13:29 · BSB

Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.

Ezra 10:2 · BSB

Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, an Elamite, said to Ezra: “We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women from the people of the land, yet in spite of this, there is hope for Israel.

Also

Exodus 19:5

Exodus 19:5 · BSB

Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

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.”

11Judah has broken faith; an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the LORD’s beloved sanctuary by marrying the daughter of a foreign god.

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