Malachi 3:7
Malachi · Old Testament · Chapter 3
“Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?”Malachi 3:7
What Does Malachi 3:7 Mean?
Malachi 3:7 is found in the book of Malachi, chapter 3, verse 7 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 20 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Key themes in this passage include Repentance.
Cross-References (20)
These passages are connected to Malachi 3:7 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
James 4:8“Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.”Zechariah 1:3“Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.”Romans 10:21“But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.”Deuteronomy 31:20“For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.”Romans 10:3“For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.”Daniel 9:5“We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:”Leviticus 26:40“If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;”Nehemiah 9:28“But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and many times didst thou deliver them according to thy mercies;”Isaiah 55:6“Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:”Jeremiah 3:12“Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever.”Hosea 14:1“O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.”Deuteronomy 4:29“But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.”Jeremiah 3:22“Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.”Malachi 1:6“A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?”Luke 15:16“And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.”Deuteronomy 9:7“Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD.”Deuteronomy 30:1“And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,”Nehemiah 9:26“Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.”Psalms 78:8“And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.”Isaiah 65:2“I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;”
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