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Malachi 1:8-10 (NET)

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⁸ For when you offer blind animals as a sacrifice, is that not wrong? And when you offer the lame and sick, is that not wrong as well? Indeed, try offering them to your governor! Will he be pleased with you or show you favor?" asks the LORD who rules over all. ⁹ But now plead for God's favor that he might be gracious to us. "With this kind of offering in your hands, how can he be pleased with you?" asks the LORD who rules over all. ¹⁰ "I wish that one of you would close the temple doors, so that you no longer would light useless fires on my altar. I am not pleased with you," says the LORD who rules over all, "and I will no longer accept an offering from you.


This passage relates to the following topic(s):
(v. 8) Pleasing God - God is not pleased with giving our second best
(v. 8) Giving / Contribution - God is not pleased with giving our second best

This passage is referenced in the following study note(s):
(v. 8) Sermon: Pleasing the Lord? (2004-01-18)
(v. 9) Sermon: Pleasing the Lord? (2004-01-18)
(v. 10) Sermon: Pleasing the Lord? (2004-01-18)