Malachi 2 cross-references
Malachi 2 has 17 verses, which point to 356 other passages and are cited by 266. Below is the King James text of each verse with its strongest cross-references, ranked by OpenBible.info reader votes.
See Malachi 2’s threads in the explorerMalachi 2:1
And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.
Points to (4)
- Malachi 1:6 — A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I… 3 votes
- Hosea 5:1 — Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment… 3 votes
- Jeremiah 13:13 — Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land,… 3 votes
- Lamentations 4:13 — For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the… 2 votes
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- Hosea 4:6 — My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee,… 20 votes
- Hosea 5:1 — Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment… 3 votes
- 1 Samuel 2:12 — Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD. 3 votes
- Malachi 3:3 — And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as… 2 votes
Malachi 2:2
If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.
Points to (29)
- Revelation 14:7 — Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship… 9 votes
- Luke 17:18 — There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger. 9 votes
- Psalms 81:11–12 — But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. 7 votes
- Psalms 69:22 — Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become… 7 votes
- 1 Peter 4:11 — If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability… 5 votes
- Malachi 3:9 — Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. 5 votes
Pointed to from (35)
- Deuteronomy 28:15 — But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all… 12 votes
- Haggai 1:6 — Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with… 11 votes
- Malachi 3:9 — Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. 9 votes
- Proverbs 3:33 — The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just. 8 votes
Malachi 2:3
Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.
Points to (12)
- Nahum 3:6 — And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock. 7 votes
- Malachi 2:9 — Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my… 5 votes
- Joel 1:17 — The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn… 3 votes
- Job 20:7 — Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he? 3 votes
- 1 Kings 14:10 — Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that… 3 votes
- Exodus 29:14 — But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, shalt thou burn with fire without the camp: it is a… 3 votes
Pointed to from (7)
- Psalms 7:16 — His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate. 4 votes
- Malachi 2:9 — Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my… 2 votes
- 1 Kings 14:10 — Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that… 2 votes
- Deuteronomy 28:18 — Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of… 2 votes
Malachi 2:4
And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.
Points to (14)
- Numbers 3:12 — And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn that… 6 votes
- Ezekiel 38:23 — Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they… 4 votes
- John 15:2 — Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it,… 3 votes
- Luke 10:11 — Even the very dust of your city, which cleaveth on us, we do wipe off against you: notwithstanding be ye sure… 3 votes
- Matthew 3:12 — Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he… 3 votes
- Ezekiel 44:9–16 — Thus saith the Lord GOD; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my… 3 votes
Pointed to from (9)
- Numbers 25:12 — Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace: 7 votes
- Matthew 21:33 — Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about,… 4 votes
- Isaiah 43:27 — Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me. 3 votes
- Zechariah 12:13 — The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives… 2 votes
Malachi 2:5
My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name.
Points to (10)
- Ezekiel 37:26 — Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will… 9 votes
- Numbers 25:12–13 — Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace: 9 votes
- Ezekiel 34:25 — And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and… 8 votes
- Numbers 16:9–10 — Seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of… 5 votes
- Exodus 32:26–29 — Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the LORD'S side? let him come unto me. And all… 5 votes
- Psalms 106:30–31 — Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed. 4 votes
Pointed to from (7)
- Isaiah 54:10 — For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither… 19 votes
- Isaiah 8:13 — Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. 6 votes
- Malachi 2:8 — But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant… 3 votes
- Deuteronomy 33:9 — Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor… 3 votes
Malachi 2:6
The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity.
Points to (20)
- Daniel 12:3 — And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to… 12 votes
- 2 Timothy 2:15–16 — Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word… 9 votes
- Revelation 14:5 — And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God. 8 votes
- Jeremiah 23:22 — But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned… 7 votes
- James 5:19–20 — Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; 6 votes
- Acts 26:18 — To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they… 6 votes
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- Proverbs 3:3 — Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: 13 votes
- Proverbs 31:26 — She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness. 9 votes
- Genesis 5:22 — And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: 7 votes
- 2 John 1:4 — I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the… 5 votes
Malachi 2:7
For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
Points to (23)
- 2 Timothy 2:24–25 — And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, 13 votes
- Leviticus 10:11 — And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the LORD hath spoken unto them by the… 10 votes
- Deuteronomy 21:5 — And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the LORD thy God hath chosen to minister unto him,… 7 votes
- 2 Corinthians 5:20 — Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead,… 6 votes
- 1 Thessalonians 4:8 — He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit. 5 votes
- Acts 16:17 — The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew… 5 votes
Pointed to from (45)
- 2 Timothy 2:2 — And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who… 22 votes
- Hosea 4:6 — My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee,… 22 votes
- 2 Corinthians 5:20 — Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead,… 19 votes
- Ezra 7:10 — For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes… 15 votes
Malachi 2:8
But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.
Points to (23)
- Nehemiah 13:29 — Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of… 7 votes
- Jeremiah 18:15 — Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble… 4 votes
- Jeremiah 17:5 — Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart… 4 votes
- Malachi 2:5 — My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and… 3 votes
- Ezekiel 44:10 — And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after… 3 votes
- Isaiah 30:11 — Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us. 3 votes
Pointed to from (21)
- Malachi 1:6 — A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I… 7 votes
- 1 Samuel 2:30 — Wherefore the LORD God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should… 7 votes
- Ezekiel 22:26 — Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the… 6 votes
- Psalms 119:126 — It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law. 6 votes
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.
Points to (25)
- 1 Samuel 2:30 — Wherefore the LORD God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should… 5 votes
- Deuteronomy 1:17 — Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be… 5 votes
- Luke 11:42 — But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and… 4 votes
- Galatians 2:6 — But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no… 3 votes
- Luke 10:29 — But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour? 3 votes
- Mark 7:8–14 — For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and… 3 votes
Pointed to from (13)
- James 3:17 — But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of… 6 votes
- Malachi 2:3 — Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and… 5 votes
- Nahum 3:6 — And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock. 5 votes
- Hosea 4:7 — As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame. 4 votes
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?
Points to (43)
- 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… 43 votes
- Malachi 2:11 — Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath… 37 votes
- 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,… 10 votes
- Ephesians 4:6 — One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. 9 votes
- Isaiah 63:16 — Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD,… 7 votes
- 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… 6 votes
Pointed to from (8)
- Acts 17:26 — And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined… 20 votes
- 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,… 17 votes
- Ephesians 4:6 — One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. 15 votes
- Isaiah 63:16 — Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD,… 6 votes
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.
Points to (25)
- 2 Corinthians 6:14–18 — Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with… 34 votes
- Ezra 9:1–2 — Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and… 4 votes
- Revelation 21:8 — But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and… 3 votes
- Psalms 106:34–39 — They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD commanded them: 3 votes
- Nehemiah 13:23–29 — In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab: 3 votes
- 1 Kings 11:1–8 — But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites,… 3 votes
Pointed to from (17)
- Malachi 2:10 — Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his… 37 votes
- 2 Corinthians 6:14 — Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with… 21 votes
- Hosea 7:8 — Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned. 7 votes
- Psalms 81:9 — There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god. 4 votes
Malachi 2:12
The LORD will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the LORD of hosts.
Points to (26)
- Revelation 19:20 — And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he… 2 votes
- 2 Timothy 3:13 — But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. 2 votes
- Matthew 15:14 — Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the… 2 votes
- Malachi 2:10 — Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his… 2 votes
- Malachi 1:10 — Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought? neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for… 2 votes
- Zechariah 12:7 — The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the… 2 votes
Pointed to from (2)
- James 3:1 — My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. 4 votes
- Exodus 12:15 — Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for… 2 votes
Malachi 2:13
And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth it with good will at your hand.
Points to (12)
- Isaiah 1:11–15 — To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings… 5 votes
- Jeremiah 14:12 — When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not… 3 votes
- Psalms 78:34–37 — When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God. 3 votes
- Jeremiah 6:20 — To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt… 2 votes
- Ecclesiastes 4:1 — So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such… 2 votes
- Proverbs 15:8 — The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight. 2 votes
Pointed to from (11)
- Matthew 19:8 — He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but… 5 votes
- Ecclesiastes 4:1 — So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such… 4 votes
- Hebrews 8:9 — Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead… 3 votes
- Isaiah 43:24 — Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but… 3 votes
Malachi 2:14
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.
Points to (19)
- Malachi 2:15 — And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly… 15 votes
- Isaiah 54:6 — For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast… 9 votes
- Ecclesiastes 9:9 — Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee… 9 votes
- Genesis 31:50 — If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us;… 7 votes
- Malachi 3:5 — And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the… 6 votes
- Jeremiah 42:5 — Then they said to Jeremiah, The LORD be a true and faithful witness between us, if we do not even according… 6 votes
Pointed to from (26)
- Genesis 2:24 — Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one… 19 votes
- 1 Peter 3:7 — Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the… 15 votes
- Malachi 2:15 — And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly… 15 votes
- Matthew 5:32 — But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her… 12 votes
Malachi 2:15
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.
Points to (34)
- Matthew 19:4–6 — And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male… 16 votes
- Mark 10:6–8 — But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. 15 votes
- Malachi 2:14 — Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against… 15 votes
- Genesis 2:20–24 — And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam… 11 votes
- Genesis 1:27 — So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 11 votes
- 1 Timothy 3:11–12 — Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things. 8 votes
Pointed to from (20)
- Genesis 1:27 — So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 20 votes
- 2 Corinthians 6:14 — Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with… 15 votes
- Malachi 2:14 — Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against… 15 votes
- 1 Corinthians 7:14 — For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband:… 12 votes
Malachi 2:16
For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.
Points to (10)
- Matthew 19:3–9 — The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his… 16 votes
- Matthew 5:31–32 — It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: 12 votes
- Mark 10:2–12 — And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him. 10 votes
- Luke 16:18 — Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that… 9 votes
- Proverbs 28:13 — He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy. 6 votes
- Micah 7:2–3 — The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for… 4 votes
Pointed to from (4)
- Isaiah 46:4 — And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even… 12 votes
- Matthew 19:7 — They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away? 4 votes
- Mark 10:2 — And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him. 2 votes
- Deuteronomy 24:1 — When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes,… 2 votes
Malachi 2:17
Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?
Points to (27)
- Isaiah 43:24 — Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but… 8 votes
- 2 Peter 3:3–4 — Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 5 votes
- Zephaniah 1:12 — And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that… 4 votes
- Isaiah 30:18 — And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he… 4 votes
- Isaiah 5:18–20 — Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: 4 votes
- Ecclesiastes 8:11 — Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is… 4 votes
Pointed to from (20)
- Isaiah 5:20 — Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that… 43 votes
- 2 Peter 3:4 — And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as… 12 votes
- Psalms 58:11 — So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the… 10 votes
- Malachi 3:13 — Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee? 9 votes