Cross references
Malachi 1:2
“I have loved you,” says the LORD.
But you ask, “How have You loved us?”
“Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the LORD. “Yet Jacob I have loved,
Malachi 1:2 has 23 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 10 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Jeremiah 31:3 (9 votes) and Isaiah 41:8–9 (8 votes). 26 other verses point back to it. It links with 18 other books, from Genesis 25 to Romans 11.
Which verses does Malachi 1:2 point to?
The 20 strongest of 23, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Jeremiah 31:39 votes
The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.
- Isaiah 41:8–98 votes
“But you, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham My friend— I brought you from the ends of the earth and called you from its farthest corners. I said, ‘You are My servant.’ I have chosen and not rejected you.
- Deuteronomy 10:156 votes
Yet the LORD has set His affection on your fathers and loved them. And He has chosen you, their descendants after them, above all the peoples, even to this day.
- Romans 9:10–135 votes
Not only that, but Rebecca’s children were conceived by one man, our father Isaac. Yet before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad, in order that God’s plan of election might stand, …
- Deuteronomy 4:374 votes
Because He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by His presence and great power,
- Deuteronomy 7:6–84 votes
For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth. The LORD did not set His affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than the other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples. …
- Deuteronomy 32:8–144 votes
When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God. But the LORD’s portion is His people, Jacob His allotted inheritance. …
- Isaiah 43:44 votes
Because you are precious and honored in My sight, and because I love you, I will give men in exchange for you and nations in place of your life.
- Malachi 3:7–84 votes
Yet from the days of your fathers, you have turned away from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Hosts. “But you ask, ‘How can we return?’ Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you ask, ‘How do we rob You?’ In tithes and offerings.
- Malachi 3:13–144 votes
“Your words against Me have been harsh,” says the LORD. “Yet you ask, ‘What have we spoken against You?’ You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His requirements and walking mournfully before the LORD of Hosts?
- Malachi 1:6–73 votes
“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised Your name?’ By presenting defiled food on My altar. But you ask, ‘How have we defiled You?’ By saying that the table of the LORD is contemptible.
- Malachi 2:173 votes
- Romans 11:28–293 votes
- Genesis 25:232 votes
- Genesis 27:27–302 votes
- Genesis 27:332 votes
- Genesis 28:3–42 votes
- Genesis 28:13–142 votes
- Genesis 32:28–302 votes
- Genesis 48:42 votes
Which verses point to Malachi 1:2?
The 10 strongest of 26.