Malachi Cross References - Moffatt

²⁹ Anxious to make an excuse for himself, however, he said to Jesus, "But who is my neighbour?"

¹⁰ And further, when Rebecca became pregnant by our father Isaac, though one man was the father of both children, ¹¹ and though the children were still unborn and had done nothing either good or bad (to confirm the divine purpose in election which depends upon the call of God, not on anything man does), ¹² she was told that the elder will serve the younger. ¹³ As it is written, Jacob I loved but Esau I hated.

²⁸ So far as the gospel goes, they are enemies of God — which is to your advantage; but so far as election goes, they are beloved for their father's sake. ²⁹ For God never goes back upon his gifts and call.

²⁶ "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, aye and his own life, he cannot be a disciple of mine;

³⁰ He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters.

¹³ Come now, you who say, "To-day or to-morrow we are going to such and such a city; we shall spend a year there trading and making money" — ¹⁴ you who know nothing about to-morrow! For what is your life? You are but a mist, which appears for a little and then vanishes. ¹⁵ You ought rather to say, "If the Lord will, we shall live to do this or that." ¹⁶ But here you are, boasting in your proud pretensions! All such boasting is wicked.

²³ Then turning to the disciples he said privately, "Blessed are the eyes that see what you see! ²⁴ For I tell you many prophets and kings have desired to see what you see, but they have not seen it: and to hear what you hear, but they have not heard it."

⁹ Let this be how you pray: 'our Father in heaven, thy name be revered,

¹⁴ For if you forgive men their trespasses, then your heavenly Father will forgive you; ¹⁵ but if you do not forgive men, your Father will not forgive your trespasses either.

²¹ It is not everyone who says to me 'Lord, Lord!', who will get into the Realm of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father in heaven.

⁴ God enjoined, Honour your father and mother, and, He who curses his father or mother is to suffer death.

⁶ need not honour his father or mother. So you have repealed the law of God to suit your own tradition.

¹⁹ honour your father and mother, and you must love your neighbour as yourself."

¹⁰ Thus, Moses said, Honour your father and mother, and, He who curses his father or mother is to suffer death.

¹⁹ You know the commands: do not kill, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not defraud, honour your father and mother."

³⁶ Be merciful, as your Father is merciful.

⁴⁶ Why call me, 'Lord, Lord!' and obey me not?

²⁰ You know the commands: do not commit adultery, do not kill, do not steal, do not bear false witness, honour your father and mother."

¹³ You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right: that is what I am. ¹⁴ Well, if I have washed your feet, I who am your Lord and Teacher, you are bound to wash one another's feet; ¹⁵ for I have been setting you an example, that you should do what I have done to you. ¹⁶ Truly, truly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than he who sent him. ¹⁷ If you know all this, blessed are you if you really do it.

² honour your father and mother (it is the first command with a promise),

¹ Let all servants who are under the yoke of slavery remember that their masters are entitled to perfect respect — otherwise it will be a scandal to the Name of God and to our doctrine. ² Those who have Christian believers as their masters must not take liberties with them because they are brothers; they must be all the better servants because those who get the good of their service are believers and beloved. This is what you are to teach and preach.

⁹ Tell servants to be submissive to their masters and to give them satisfaction all round, not to be refractory, ¹⁰ not to embezzle, but to prove themselves truly faithful at all points, so as to be an ornament to the doctrine of God our Saviour in all respects.

¹⁷ And as you call upon a Father who judges everyone impartially by what he has done, be reverent in your conduct while you sojourn here below;

¹⁷ Do honour to all, love the brotherhood, reverence God, honour the emperor. ¹⁸ Servants, be submissive to your masters with perfect respect, not simply to those who are kind and reasonable but to the surly as well — ¹⁹ for it is a merit when from a sense of God one bears the pain of unjust suffering.

²¹ You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and also the cup of daemons; you cannot partake of the table of the Lord and also of the table of daemons.

²¹ As you eat, everyone takes his own supper; one goes hungry while another gets drunk. ²² What! have you no houses to eat and drink in? Do you think you can show disrespect to the church of God and put the poor to shame? What can I say to you? Commend you? Not for this.

²⁷ Hence anyone who eats the loaf or drinks the cup of the Lord carelessly, will have to answer for a sin against the body and the blood of the Lord. ²⁸ Let a man test himself; then he can eat from the loaf and drink from the cup. ²⁹ For he who eats and drinks without a proper sense of the Body, eats and drinks to his own condemnation. ³⁰ That is why many of you are ill and infirm, and a number even dead. ³¹ If we only judged our own lives truly, we would not come under the Lord's judgment. ³² As it is, we are chastened when we are judged by him, so that we may not be condemned along with the world.

³¹ God, we know, does not listen to sinners; he listens to anyone who is devout and who obeys his will.

¹⁵ But the evil spirit retorted, "Jesus I know and Paul I know, but you — who are you?" ¹⁶ And the man in whom the evil spirit resided leapt at them, overpowered them all, and belaboured them, till they rushed out of the house stripped and wounded.

¹¹ There is no partiality about God.

²⁶ Such was the high priest for us, saintly, innocent, unstained, lifted high above the heavens, far from all contact with the sinful, ²⁷ one who has no need, like yonder high priests, day by day to offer sacrifices first for their own sins and then for those of the People — he did that once for all in offering up himself.

¹² The hired man, who is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep, deserts them when he sees the wolf coming; he runs away, leaving the wolf to tear and scatter them,

¹³ Do you not know that as men who perform temple-rites get their food from the temple, and as attendants at the altar get their share of the sacrifices,

²¹ Everybody is selfish, instead of caring for Jesus Christ.

³⁸ Meantime my just man shall live on by his faith; if he shrinks back, my soul takes no delight in him.

² be shepherds to your flock of God; take charge of them willingly instead of being pressed to it, not to make a base profit from it but freely,

⁹ Let this be how you pray: 'our Father in heaven, thy name be revered, ¹⁰ thy Reign begin, thy will be done on earth as in heaven!

¹⁹ go and make disciples of all nations, baptize them in the name of the Father and the Son and the holy Spirit,

¹⁰ the mass of the people all remaining in prayer outside at the hour of incense.

²¹ "Woman," said Jesus, "believe me, the time is coming when you will be worshipping the Father neither on this mountain nor at Jerusalem. ²² You are worshipping something you do not know; we are worshipping what we do know — for salvation comes from the Jews. ²³ But the time is coming, it has come already, when the real worshippers will worship the Father in Spirit and in reality; for these are the worshippers that the Father wants.

³⁰ "Three days ago," said Cornelius, "at this very hour I was praying in my house at three o'clock in the afternoon, when a man stood before me in shining dress, ³¹ saying, 'Cornelius, your prayer has been heard, your alms are remembered by God. ³² You must send to Joppa and summon Simon who is surnamed Peter; he is staying in the house of Simon a tanner beside the sea.' ³³ So I sent for you at once, and you have been kind enough to come. Well now, here we are all present before God to listen to what the Lord has commanded you to say." ³⁴ Then Peter opened his lips and said, "I see quite plainly that God has no favourites, ³⁵ but that he who reverences Him and lives a good life in any nation is welcomed by Him.

¹⁷ that the rest of men may seek for the Lord, even all the Gentiles who are called by my name, saith the Lord, ¹⁸ who makes this known from of old.

¹ Well then, my brothers, I appeal to you by all the mercy of God to dedicate your bodies as a living sacrifice, consecrated and acceptable to God; that is your cult, a spiritual rite.

⁹ and also in order that the Gentiles should glorify God for His mercy — as it is written, Therefore will I offer praise to Thee among the Gentiles, and sing to thy name; ¹⁰ or again, Rejoice, O Gentiles, with his People; ¹¹ or again, Extol the Lord, all Gentiles, let all the peoples praise him;

¹⁶ as a priest of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the service of God's gospel. My aim is to make the Gentiles an acceptable offering, consecrated by the holy Spirit.

¹⁸ Your debt to me is fully paid and more than paid! I am amply supplied with what you have sent by Epaphroditus, a fragrant perfume, the sort of sacrifice that God approves and welcomes.

⁸ Now I want the men to offer prayer at any meeting of the church; and let the hands they lift to heaven be holy — they must be free from anger and dissension.

¹⁵ And by him let us constantly offer praise to God as our sacrifice, that is, the fruit of lips that celebrate his Name. ¹⁶ Do not forget beneficence and charity, either; these are the kind of sacrifices that are acceptable to God.

⁸ And when it took the scroll, the four living Creatures and the four and twenty Presbyters fell down before the Lamb, each with his harp and with golden bowls full of incense (that is, full of the prayers of the saints),

³ And another angel went and stood at the altar with a golden censer; he was given abundant incense, to be laid with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar in front of the throne; ⁴ and the smoke of the incense with the prayers of all the saints rose up from the angel's hand before God.

¹⁵ Then the seventh angel blew; and loud voices followed in heaven, crying, "The rule of the world has passed to our Lord and his Christ, and he shall reign for ever and ever."

⁴ Who shall not fear, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou alone art holy. Yea, all nations shall come and worship before thee, for thy judgments are disclosed."

²⁴ Why, it is owing to you that the name of God is maligned among the Gentiles, as scripture says!

¹ Take care not to practise your charity before men in order to be noticed; otherwise you get no reward from your Father in heaven. No, ² When you give alms, make no flourish of trumpets like the hypocrites in the synagogues and the streets, so as to win applause from men; I tell you truly, they do get their reward.

⁵ Also, when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites, for they like to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street-corners, so as to be seen by men; I tell you truly, they do get their reward.

¹⁶ When you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they look woebegone to let men see they are fasting; I tell you truly, they do get their reward.

⁴ This angered some of those present. "What was the use of wasting perfume like this? ⁵ This perfume might have been sold for over three hundred shillings, and the poor might have got that." So they upbraided her.

³⁷ Then he came and found them asleep; so he said to Peter, "Are you sleeping, Simon? Could you not watch for a single hour? ³⁸ Watch and pray, all of you, so that you may not slip into temptation. The spirit is eager but the flesh is weak."

³⁵ nor by earth, for it is the footstool of his feet, nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King;

⁵¹ he will cut him in two and assign him the fate of the impious. There men will wail and gnash their teeth.

⁴¹ Sitting down opposite the treasury, he watched the people putting their money into the treasury. A number of the rich were putting in large sums, ⁴² but a poor widow came up and put in two little coins amounting to a halfpenny. ⁴³ And he called his disciples and said to them, "I tell you truly, this poor widow has put in more than all who have put their money into the treasury; ⁴⁴ for they have all put in a contribution out of their surplus, but she has given out of her neediness all she possessed, her whole living."

⁸ She has done all she could — she has anticipated the perfuming of my body for burial.

¹ Meanwhile as the crowd was gathering in its thousands till they trod on one another, he proceeded to say to his disciples first of all, "Be on your guard against the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy, ² Nothing is hidden that shall not be revealed, or concealed that shall not be made known.

⁴⁶ that servant's lord and master will arrive on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour which he does not know; he will cut him in two and assign him the fate of unbelievers.

¹ But a man called Ananias, who with his wife Sapphira had sold some property, ² appropriated some of the purchase-money with the connivance of his wife; he only brought part of it to lay before the feet of the apostles. ³ "Ananias," said Peter, "why has Satan filled your heart and made you cheat the holy Spirit by appropriating some of the money paid for the land? ⁴ When it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And even after the sale, was the money not yours to do as you pleased about it? How could you think of doing a thing like this? You have not defrauded men but God." ⁵ When Ananias heard this, he fell down and expired. (Great awe came over all who heard of it.) ⁶ And the younger men rose, wrapped the body up and carried it away to be buried. ⁷ After an interval of about three hours his wife happened to come in, quite unconscious of what had occurred. ⁸ "Tell me," said Peter, "did you only sell the land for such and such a sum?" "Yes," she said, "that was all we sold it for." ⁹ Peter said to her, "How could you arrange to put the Lord's Spirit to the proof? Listen, there are the footsteps of the men who have buried your husband! They are at the door, and they will carry you out as well." ¹⁰ Instantly she fell down at their feet and expired. The younger men came in to find her dead; they carried her out and buried her beside her husband.

¹² If only one is ready to give, according to his means, it is acceptable; he is not asked to give what he has not got.

¹⁵ which will be brought about in due time by that blessed and only Sovereign, King of kings and Lord of lords,

²⁹ but with godly fear and awe, for our God is indeed a consuming fire.

⁸ but as for the craven, the faithless, the abominable, as for murderers, the immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and liars of all kinds — their lot is the lake that blazes with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."