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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Malachi 2 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/malachi/2.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/malachi/2-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</a> > Malachi 2</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../malachi/1.htm" title="Malachi 1">◄</a> Malachi 2 <a href="../malachi/3.htm" title="Malachi 3">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/malachi/2.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">Additional Warning to the Priests</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/2-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“And now, you priests, this warning is for you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>If you do not listen, and if you do not resolve to honor my name,” says the <span class="name">Lord</span> Almighty, “I will send a curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already cursed them, because you have not resolved to honor me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>“Because of you I will rebuke your descendants <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or will blight your grain">a</a></sup></span> ; I will smear on your faces the dung from your festival sacrifices, and you will be carried off with it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And you will know that I have sent you this warning so that my covenant with Levi may continue,” says the <span class="name">Lord</span> Almighty. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“For the lips of a priest ought to preserve knowledge, because he is the messenger of the <span class="name">Lord</span> Almighty and people seek instruction from his mouth. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>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 <span class="name">Lord</span> Almighty. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“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.”</p> <p class="sectionhead">Breaking Covenant Through Divorce</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Do we not all have one Father <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or father">b</a></sup></span> ? Did not one God create us? Why do we profane the covenant of our ancestors by being unfaithful to one another?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Judah has been unfaithful. A detestable thing has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem: Judah has desecrated the sanctuary the <span class="name">Lord</span> loves by marrying women who worship a foreign god. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>As for the man who does this, whoever he may be, may the <span class="name">Lord</span> remove him from the tents of Jacob <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or 12 May the LORD remove from the tents of Jacob anyone who gives testimony in behalf of the man who does this">c</a></sup></span> —even though he brings an offering to the <span class="name">Lord</span> Almighty.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Another thing you do: You flood the <span class="name">Lord</span>’s altar with tears. You weep and wail because he no longer looks with favor on your offerings or accepts them with pleasure from your hands. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>You ask, “Why?” It is because the <span class="name">Lord</span> is the witness between you and the wife of your youth. You have been unfaithful to her, though she is your partner, the wife of your marriage covenant.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Has not the one God made you? You belong to him in body and spirit. And what does the one God seek? Godly offspring. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The meaning of the Hebrew for the first part of this verse is uncertain.">d</a></sup></span> So be on your guard, and do not be unfaithful to the wife of your youth.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“The man who hates and divorces his wife,” says the <span class="name">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, “does violence to the one he should protect,” <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or ''I hate divorce,'' says the LORD, the God of Israel, ''because the man who divorces his wife covers his garment with violence,''">e</a></sup></span> says the <span class="name">Lord</span> Almighty.</p><p class="reg">So be on your guard, and do not be unfaithful.</p> <p class="sectionhead">Breaking Covenant Through Injustice</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/malachi/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>You have wearied the <span class="name">Lord</span> with your words.</p><p class="reg">“How have we wearied him?” you ask.</p><p class="reg">By saying, “All who do evil are good in the eyes of the <span class="name">Lord</span>, and he is pleased with them” or “Where is the God of justice?”</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>will blight your grain</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">10</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>father</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">12</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i><span class="fnref">12</span>May the <span class="name">Lord</span> remove from the tents of Jacob anyone who gives testimony in behalf of the man who does this</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> <span class="footnotebot">The meaning of the Hebrew for the first part of this verse is uncertain.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">16</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>“I hate divorce,” says the <span class="name">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, “because the man who divorces his wife covers his garment with violence,”</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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