Malachi 4 Cross References - Riverside

¹² He has his fan in his hand and will thoroughly clean his threshing-floor. He will gather his grain into his storehouse, but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable."

¹⁵ "Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, road to the sea, country beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles, ¹⁶ the people that sat in darkness saw a great light and upon those sitting in the land and shadow of death light dawned."

¹⁷ "Do not think that I have come to do away with the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to do away with them, but to fill them full. ¹⁸ I tell you truly, until heaven and earth pass away not the smallest letter or part of a letter will pass away from the Law, until all is done. ¹⁹ Whoever breaks one of these commandments, the least of them, and teaches men to do so, will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, and whoever does them and teaches them, he will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. ²⁰ For I say to you that, unless your righteousness far exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

⁵ Blind men recover sight, lame men walk, lepers are cleansed, deaf men hear, dead men are raised, and poor men have the good news proclaimed to them.

¹³ For all the prophets and the Law prophesied until John. ¹⁴ If you are willing to believe it, he is Elijah who was to come.

¹⁰ The disciples asked him, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?" ¹¹ He answered, "Elijah does come and restore all things. ¹² But I tell you Elijah has already come and they did not recognize him, but did to him whatever they chose. Just so the Son of Man is about to suffer at their hands." ¹³ Then the disciples understood that he was speaking to them of John the Baptist.

¹⁶ A man came to him and said, "Teacher, what good thing shall I do to have life eternal?" ¹⁷ He said to him, "Why do you ask me about the good? One only is the Good. But if you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments." ¹⁸ He said to him, "Which?" Jesus said to him, "Thou shalt not commit murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, ¹⁹ Honor thy father and thy mother, and Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." ²⁰ The young man said to him, "All these I have kept. What do I lack still?" ²¹ Jesus said to him, "If you wish to be perfect, go sell your property and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and then come, follow me." ²² When the young man heard that saying, he went away grieved. For he possessed great wealth.

⁷ Then the king grew angry and sent his armies and destroyed those murderers and burned up their city.

³⁶ "Teacher, which commandment in the law is greatest?" ³⁷ Jesus said to him, " 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind.' ³⁸ This is the greatest and first commandment. ³⁹ The second is like it, 'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.' ⁴⁰ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets."

³⁵ so that all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the Temple and the altar, may come on you. ³⁶ I tell you truly all this will come on this generation. ³⁷ Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you, how often would I fain have gathered your children as a bird gathers her nestlings under her wings, and you would not.

³⁷ Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you, how often would I fain have gathered your children as a bird gathers her nestlings under her wings, and you would not. ³⁸ See, your house is left to you desolate,

²⁷ For as the lightning comes out of the east and shines across to the west, so will the coming of the Son of Man be. ²⁸ Wherever the carcass is, there will the vultures flock together. ²⁹ "Immediately after the distress of those days the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give her light, and the stars will fall from heaven and the powers of heaven will be shaken. ³⁰ And then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. Then will all the tribes of the earth beat their breasts for grief, and they will see the Son of Man as he comes on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

⁴⁷ Some of those who were standing there said, when they heard it, "This man is calling for Elijah." ⁴⁸ Immediately one of them took a sponge and filled it with sour wine and put it on a reed and gave him a drink. ⁴⁹ The rest said, "Let him alone, let us see whether Elijah comes to save him."

¹¹ They asked him, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?" ¹² He said, "Elijah does come first and reforms everything. How is it written also of the Son of Man that he suffers many things and is treated with contempt? ¹³ I tell you Elijah has already come, and they have done to him what they chose, just as it was written of him."

²¹ Peter, calling to mind, said to him, "Rabbi, see, the fig tree that you cursed has withered up."

²⁸ Then came one of the scribes, and, after listening to their discussion and knowing that he had answered them well, asked, "Which is the first commandment of all?" ²⁹ Jesus answered, "The first is, 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord, ³⁰ and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind and with all thy strength.' ³¹ This is the second, 'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.' There is no other commandment greater than these." ³² The scribe said to him, "Right, teacher; you have said truly that he is one and there is no other beside him, ³³ and to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength and to love one's neighbor as one's self is more than all the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices." ³⁴ Jesus, seeing that he had answered with intelligence, said to him, "You are not far from the kingdom of God." After that no one dared question him further.

¹⁴ "When you see the abomination of desolation standing where it ought not [Let the reader consider], then let those in Judea flee to the mountains, ¹⁵ and let him who is on top of the house not descend and enter to take anything from his house, ¹⁶ and let him who is in the field not turn back to get his cloak. ¹⁷ Alas for the women with child and the nursing mothers in those days! ¹⁸ Pray that it may not be in the winter. ¹⁹ For those will be days of misery such as has not been since the beginning of God's creation until now, and never will be again. ²⁰ Unless the Lord had shortened those days, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of those whom he has chosen he has shortened the days. ²¹ Then if any one says to you, 'See here is the Christ!' or, 'See there,' believe him not. ²² False Christs and false prophets will do signs and wonders to mislead if possible the chosen. ²³ But you, be on your guard. I have foretold you all things. ²⁴ "But in those days, after that misery, the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give her light ²⁵ and the stars will be falling from heaven and the powers that are in the heavens will be shaken. ²⁶ Then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory.

¹⁶ and many of the sons of Israel will he turn to the Lord their God. ¹⁷ He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared for him."

¹⁷ He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared for him."

⁵⁰ His kindness is from generation to generation upon those who fear him.

⁷⁶ And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High. You will go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways,

⁷⁸ Through the tender compassion of our God, With which the sunrise from on high will shine upon us;

³² a light for revelation to Gentiles and a glory to thy people Israel."

²⁶ But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet. ²⁷ For this is he about whom it was written, 'Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will make ready your way before you.' ²⁸ I tell you there is not among those born of women a greater than John. But an inferior in the kingdom of God is greater than he."

³⁰ Suddenly two men were talking with him. They were Moses and Elijah,

²⁵ Then a certain lawyer stood up to test him, and said, "Teacher, what must I do to inherit life eternal?" ²⁶ He said to him, "What is written in the Law? How do you read it?" ²⁷ He answered, " 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy strength and with all thy mind, and thy neighbor as thyself.' ²⁸ Jesus said to him, "You have answered correctly; do this and you will live."

²⁹ Abraham said, 'They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.' ³⁰ But he said, 'No, father Abraham, but if one goes to them from the dead, they will have a change of heart.' ³¹ Abraham replied, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rises from the dead.'

⁴¹ As he drew near and looked at the city, he wept over it, ⁴² saying, "If this day you also knew the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes! ⁴³ For days will come when your enemies will throw up a palisade against you and encircle you and hem you in on every side

⁴³ For days will come when your enemies will throw up a palisade against you and encircle you and hem you in on every side ⁴⁴ and level you to the ground, and your children within you, and they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know the time when you were visited."

²⁰ "But when you see Jerusalem encircled by camps, then know that her desolation is near.

²² for these are days of vengeance, that all the prophecies may be fulfilled. ²³ Alas for the women with child and the nursing mothers in those days! For there will be great distress on earth and wrath upon this people, ²⁴ and they will fall by the edge of the sword and will be taken as captives into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles have gone by. ²⁵ "There will be portents in the sun and in the moon and in the stars, and on earth distress of nations in perplexity at the roar of the sea and its surges, ²⁶ men fainting from fear and foreboding of what is coming upon mankind. For the powers of the heavens will be shaken. ²⁷ And then they will see the Son of Man coming on a cloud with power and great glory.

⁴ In him was Life, and the Life was the Light of men.

⁸ He was not the Light, but he came to testify about the Light.

¹⁴ The Word became flesh and tented among us, and we looked upon his glory, glory as of an only son from a father, full of grace and truth.

²¹ They asked him, "What then? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the prophet?" He answered, "No."

²⁵ They asked him, "Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ nor Elijah nor the prophet?"

³⁹ You search the Scriptures because you think that you have in them life eternal, and it is they that testify of me, ⁴⁰ and yet you will not come to me to have life. ⁴¹ I do not accept honor from men, ⁴² but I know that you have not the love of God within you. ⁴³ I have come in the name of my Father and you do not accept me. If another comes in his own name, you will accept him. ⁴⁴ How can you believe, you who accept honor from one another and do not seek honor from the only God? ⁴⁵ Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. You have an accuser, Moses in whom you trust. ⁴⁶ If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me. ⁴⁷ But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?"

¹² Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

⁴ We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. Night is coming when no one can work.

³⁵ Jesus said to them, "A little while longer the Light is among you. Walk while you have the Light, that darkness may not overtake you. He who walks in darkness does not know where he is going. ³⁶ While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so as to become sons of Light." Jesus said these things and then went away and hid himself from them.

⁴⁰ "He has blinded their eyes and dulled their mind so that they may not see with their eyes nor understand with their mind and repent so that I should heal them."

² Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every one that bears fruit he cleanses, that it may bear more fruit. ³ You are already clean through the word that I have spoken to you. ⁴ Abide in me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in me. ⁵ I am the Vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me and I in him — he bears much fruit; but without me you cannot do anything.

¹⁹ I will give portents in heaven above and signs on the earth beneath, blood and fire and vapor of smoke. ²⁰ The sun will be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the day of the Lord comes — that great and glorious day.

²⁶ "Brethren, sons of Abraham's race and those among you who reverence God, the message of this salvation has been sent to you.

⁴⁷ For so the Lord has commanded us, 'I have set you for a light of the Gentiles, that you may be for salvation to the ends of the earth.'

¹⁸ to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and inheritance among those who are made holy by faith in me.'

³¹ Do we then by faith nullify the Law? Never. On the contrary we establish the Law.

¹ LET every person be obedient to the superior authorities. For there is no authority except from God and the actual authorities have been appointed by God. ² So he who resists the authority opposes the arrangement of God. Those who resist will bring on themselves condemnation. ³ For rulers are not a terror to good deeds, but to bad. Do you wish not to fear the authority? Do what is good and you will have praise from it. ⁴ For he is a servant of God to promote your good. But if you are doing evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword to no purpose. For he is God's servant to inflict his wrath on him who practices evil. ⁵ Therefore we must be obedient, not only because of the punishment but as a matter of conscience. ⁶ For this reason also you pay tribute. For they are God's officers attending to this very thing. ⁷ Pay to all their dues, tribute to whom tribute is due, custom to whom custom is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due. ⁸ Owe no one anything, except to love one another. He who loves the other has fulfilled the Law. ⁹ For the commandments, "Thou shalt not commit adultery," "Thou shalt not commit murder," "Thou shalt not steal," "Thou shalt not covet," and any other that there may be, are summed up in this: "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." ¹⁰ Love works no evil to a neighbor. Love therefore is full obedience to the Law.

²⁰ The God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you!

¹³ For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not let your freedom be an opportunity for the flesh, but in love be servants to one another. ¹⁴ For the whole Law is summed up in one word: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

²⁴ Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its emotions and passions. ²⁵ If we are living in the Spirit let us direct our lives by the Spirit.

⁸ For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live like children of light — ⁹ for the fruit of light appears in all generosity and righteousness and truth — ¹⁰ testing what is pleasing to the Lord, ¹¹ and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them, ¹² for the things that they do in secret it is shameful even to speak of. ¹³ But all things when reproved are shown truly by the light, for everything shown truly is light. ¹⁴ Therefore it says, "Wake, O sleeper, and rise from the dead and Christ will give you light."

³ We ought always to thank God for you, brethren, as is fitting, since your faith is growing greatly and the love of each and all of you toward one another is increasing,

⁸ With flaming fire he will inflict vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the good news of our Lord Jesus.

⁸ but if it bears thorns and thistles it is judged worthless and is near to being cursed. In the end it will be burnt over.

²⁶ For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there remains no longer any sacrifice for sins, ²⁷ but a dreadful expectation of doom and a fury of fire that will devour the opposers. ²⁸ Any one who sets aside a law of Moses dies without pity on the testimony of two or three witnesses. ²⁹ Of how much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy who has trampled on the Son of God, who has thought the blood of the covenant, by which it was made holy, an unholy thing, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace? ³⁰ For we know him who said, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay," and again, "The Lord will judge his people." ³¹ It is dreadful to fall into the hands of the living God.

⁹ But if you have partiality, you commit sin and are convicted by the law as law-breakers. ¹⁰ For he who keeps the whole law, but stumbles in one point, has become guilty of all. ¹¹ For he who said, "Thou shalt not commit adultery," said also, "Thou shalt not commit murder." If you do not commit adultery, but do commit murder, you have become a law-breaker. ¹² So speak and so act as those who are soon to be judged by a law of liberty. ¹³ For judgment is merciless to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

¹⁹ Thus have we the words of the prophets confirmed, and you will do well to give attention to them as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts;

⁷ But the present heavens and the earth are by the same word treasured up and kept for fire on the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

¹⁸ but grow in grace and in knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory now and to the day of eternity!

⁸ Again I am writing a new command, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true Light is already shining.

²⁸ And I will give him the morning star.

¹⁷ for the day, the great day, of their wrath has come and who can stand?"

¹⁵ The seventh angel sounded his trumpet and there came loud voices in heaven saying, "The kingship of the world has become our Lord's and his Christ's and he will be king for the ages of the ages."

¹⁸ The Gentiles raged, but thy wrath came and the time to judge the dead and to give the reward to thy servants the prophets and to the holy who reverence thy name, the small and the great, and to destroy those who are destroying the earth."

²⁰ The winepress was trodden outside the city and blood came out from the wine-press as high as the horses' bridles for a thousand and six hundred furlongs.

¹⁵ From his mouth issues a sharp sword to smite the nations. He will shepherd them with a rod of iron, and he treads the winepress of the fierce wrath of God Almighty.

² In the space between the street and the river, on this side and on that, grew trees of life bearing twelve kinds of fruit, and yielding their fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. ³ There will no longer be any accursed thing. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it and his servants will worship him with holy rites.

¹⁶ "I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the bright morning Star."

²⁰ He who bears this testimony says, "Yes, I am coming soon." Amen, come, Lord Jesus. ²¹ The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all!