Malachi 2:10
Good News Translation
Don't we all have the same father? Didn't the same God create us all? Then why do we break our promises to one another, and why do we despise the covenant that God made with our ancestors?

New Revised Standard Version
Have we not all one father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our ancestors?

Contemporary English Version
Don't you know that we all have God as our Father? Didn't the one God create each of us? Then why do you cheat each other by breaking the agreement God made with your ancestors?

New American Bible
Have we not all one father? Has not one God created us? Why, then, do we break faith with each other, profaning the covenant of our ancestors?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why then doth every one of us despise his brother, violating the covenant of our fathers?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why then doth every one of us despise his brother, violating the covenant of our fathers?

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Malachi 1:6 The son honoureth the father, and the servant his master: if then I be a father, where is my honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear: saith the Lord of hosts.

Joshua 24:3 And I took your father Abraham from the borders of Mesopotamia: and brought him into the land of Chanaan: and I multiplied his seed,

Isaiah 51:2 Look unto Abraham your father, and to Sara that bore you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and multiplied him.

Isaiah 63:16 For thou art our father, and Abraham hath not known us, and Israel hath been ignorant of us: thou, O Lord, art our father, our redeemer, from everlasting is thy name.

Isaiah 64:8 And now, O Lord, thou art our father, and we are clay: and thou art our maker, and we all are the works of thy hands.

Ezekiel 33:24 Son of man, they that dwell in these ruinous places in the land of Israel, speak, saying: Abraham was one, and he inherited the land, but we are many, the land is given us in possession.

Matthew 3:9 And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham for our father. For I tell you that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.

Luke 1:73 The oath, which he swore to Abraham our father, that he would grant to us.

Luke 3:8 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of penance: and do not begin to say, We have Abraham for our father. For I say unto you that God is able of these stones, to raise up children to Abraham.

John 8:39,53,56 They answered and said to him: Abraham is our father. Jesus saith them: If you be the children of Abraham, do the works of Abraham. . . .

Acts 7:2 Who said: Ye men, brethren and fathers, hear. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charan.

Romans 4:1 What shall we say then that Abraham hath found, who is our father according to the flesh?

Romans 9:10 And not only she. But when Rebecca also had conceived at once of Isaac our father.

1 Corinthians 8:6 Yet to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we unto 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 us all.

Hebrews 12:9 Moreover, we have had fathers of our flesh for instructors, and we reverenced them. Shall we not much more obey the Father of spirits and live?

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Job 31:15 Did not he that made me in the womb make him also: and did not one and the same form me in the womb?

Psalm 100:3 Know ye that the Lord he is God: he made us, and not we ourselves. We are his people and the sheep of his pasture.

Isaiah 43:1,7,15 And now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and formed thee, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed thee, and called thee by thy name: thou art mine. . . .

Isaiah 44:2 Thus saith the Lord that made and formed thee, thy helper from the womb: Fear not, O my servant Jacob, and thou most righteous whom I have chosen.

John 8:41 You do the works of your father. They said therefore to him: We are not born of fornication: we have one Father, even God.

Acts 17:25 Neither is he served with men's hands, as though he needed any thing: seeing it is he who giveth to all life and breath and all things:

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Malachi 2:11,14,15 Juda hath transgressed, and abomination hath been committed in Israel, and in Jerusalem: for Juda hath profaned the holiness of the Lord, which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god. . . .

Jeremiah 9:4,5 Let every man take heed of his neighbour, and let him not trust in any brother of his: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every friend will walk deceitfully. . . .

Micah 7:2-6 The holy man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood, every one hunteth his brother to death. . . .

Matthew 10:21 The brother also shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the son; and the children shall rise up against their parents, and shall put them to death.

Matthew 22:16 And they sent to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying: Master, we know that thou art a true speaker and teachest the way of God in truth. Neither carest thou for any man: for thou dost not regard the person of men.

Acts 7:26 And the day following, he shewed himself to them when they were at strife and would have reconciled them in peace, saying: Men, ye are brethren. Why hurt you one another?

1 Corinthians 6:6-8 But brother goeth to law with brother: and that before unbelievers. . . .

Ephesians 4:25 Wherefore, putting away lying, speak ye the truth, every man with his neighbour. For we are members one of another.

1 Thessalonians 4:6 And that no man overreach nor circumvent his brother in business: because the Lord is the avenger of all these things, as we have told you before and have testified.

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Malachi 2:8,11 But you have departed out of the way, and have caused many to stumble at the law: you have made void the covenant of Levi, saith the Lord of hosts. . . .

Exodus 34:10-16 The Lord answered: I will make a covenant in the sight of all, I will do signs such as were never seen upon the earth, nor in any nations; that this people, in the midst of whom thou art, may see the terrible work of the Lord which I will do. . . .

Joshua 23:12-16 But if you will embrace the errors of these nations that dwell among you, and make marriages with them, and join friendships: . . .

Ezra 9:11-14 Which thou hast commanded by the hand of thy servants the prophets, saying: The land which you go to possess, is an unclean land, according to the uncleanness of the people, and of other lands, with their abominations, who have filled it from mouth to mouth with their filth. . . .

Ezra 10:2,3 And Sechenias the son of Jehiel of the sons of Elam answered, and said to Esdras: We have sinned against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: and now if there be repentance in Israel concerning this, . . .

Nehemiah 13:29 Remember them, O Lord my God, that defile the priesthood, and the law of priests and Levites.

Context
Judah's Unfaithfulness
10Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why then doth every one of us despise his brother, violating the covenant of our fathers?11Juda hath transgressed, and abomination hath been committed in Israel, and in Jerusalem: for Juda hath profaned the holiness of the Lord, which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.…
Cross References
Acts 17:24
God, who made the world and all things therein, he being Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands.

Acts 17:26
And hath made of one, all mankind, to dwell upon the whole face of the earth, determining appointed times and the limits of their habitation.

1 Corinthians 8:6
Yet to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we unto 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 us all.

Exodus 19:4
You have seen what I have done to the Egyptians, how I have carried you upon the wings of eagles, and have taken you to myself.

Exodus 24:3
So Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice: We will do all the words of the Lord, which he hath spoken.

Exodus 24:7
And taking the book of the covenant, he read it in the hearing of the people: and they said: All things that the Lord hath spoken, we will do, we will be obedient.

Isaiah 63:16
For thou art our father, and Abraham hath not known us, and Israel hath been ignorant of us: thou, O Lord, art our father, our redeemer, from everlasting is thy name.

Isaiah 64:8
And now, O Lord, thou art our father, and we are clay: and thou art our maker, and we all are the works of thy hands.

Jeremiah 9:4
Let every man take heed of his neighbour, and let him not trust in any brother of his: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every friend will walk deceitfully.

Jeremiah 9:5
And a man shall mock his brother, and they will not speak the truth: for they have taught their tongue to speak lies: they have laboured to commit iniquity.

Jeremiah 31:9
They shall come with weeping: and I will bring them back in mercy: and I will bring them through the torrents of waters in a right way, and they shall not stumble in it: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

Malachi 1:6
The son honoureth the father, and the servant his master: if then I be a father, where is my honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear: saith the Lord of hosts.

Malachi 2:9
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