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and ye shall be taken away with it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts. <span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him that he might fear, and he feared me, and stood in awe of my name. <span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and uprightness, and did turn many away from iniquity. <span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts. <span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But ye are turned aside out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble in the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts. <span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="hdg">Judah's Unfaithfulness</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>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? <span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loveth, and hath married the daughter of a strange god. <span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The LORD will cut off to the man that doeth this him that waketh and him that answereth, out of the tents of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the LORD of hosts.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And this again ye do: ye cover the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, neither receiveth it with good will at your hand. <span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. <span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And did he not make one, although he had the residue of the spirit? And wherefore one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For I hate putting away, saith the LORD, the God of Israel, and him that covereth his garment with violence, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? In that ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or where is the God of judgment?</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">English Revised Version, 1885<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../malachi/1.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Malachi 1"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Malachi 1" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../malachi/3.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Malachi 3"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Malachi 3" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="/scan/malachi/2-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></body></html>