Malachi 2:10
Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?
Malachi 2:10 in other translations
| BSB | Do we not all have one Father? Did not one God create us? Why then do we break faith with one another so as to profane the covenant of our fathers? |
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| WEB | Don’t we all have one father? Hasn’t one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers? |
| ASV | 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? |
| YLT | Have we not all one father? Hath not our God prepared us? Wherefore do we deal treacherously, Each against his brother, To pollute the covenant of our fathers? |
| DARBY | Have we not all one father? Hath not one God created us? Why do we deal unfaithfully every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers? |
| BBE | Have we not all one father? has not one God made us? why are we, every one of us, acting falsely to his brother, putting shame on the agreement of our fathers? |
| Webster | Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers? |
What does Malachi 2:10 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Malachi 2:10-16
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Malachi 2:10-17
Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain
Malachi 2:10 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Malachi 2:10
- Psalms 100:3
Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
- Malachi 2:11
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 loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.
- 1 Corinthians 8:6
But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
- Ephesians 4:6
One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
- Isaiah 63:16
Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O Lord, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.
- Isaiah 64:8
But now, O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
- Matthew 3:9
And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
- Micah 7:2-6
The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net. That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up. The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity. Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom. …
- Malachi 2:14-15
Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
- Acts 7:26
And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?
- Isaiah 44:2
Thus saith the Lord that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen.
- Jeremiah 9:4-5
Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders. And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
1:6; Jos 24:3; Isa 51:2; 63:16; 64:8; Eze 33:24; Mt 3:9; Lu 1:73; 3:8
Joh 8:39,53,56; Ac 7:2; Ro 4:1; 9:10; 1Co 8:6; Eph 4:6; Heb 12:9
hath.
Job 31:15; Ps 100:3; Isa 43:1,7,15; 44:2; Joh 8:41; Ac 17:25
why.
11,14,15; Jer 9:4,5; Mic 7:2-6; Mt 10:21; 22:16; Ac 7:26; 1Co 6:6-8
Eph 4:25; 1Th 4:6
by.
8,11; Ex 34:10-16; Jos 23:12-16; Ezr 9:11-14; 10:2,3; Ne 13:29
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Context
- Malachi 2:9
Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.
- Malachi 2:10
Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?
- Malachi 2:11
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 loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.
Malachi 2:10 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | ¿No tenemos todos un mismo padre? ¿No nos ha criado un mismo Dios? ¿Por qué menospreciaremos cada uno á su hermano, quebrantando el pacto de nuestros padres? |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | N’y a-t-il pas pour nous tous un seul père? Un seul ✶Dieu ne nous a-t-il pas créés? Pourquoi agissons-nous perfidement chacun envers son frère, en profanant l’alliance de nos pères? |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Haben wir nicht alle einen Vater? Hat nicht ein Gott uns geschaffen? Warum handeln wir treulos einer gegen den anderen, indem wir den Bund unserer Väter entweihen? |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Numquid non pater unus omnium nostrum? numquid non Deus unus creavit nos? quare ergo despicit unusquisque nostrum fratrem suum, violans pactum patrum nostrorum? |