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Haveg 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?

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1 Cor. 8:6• ⁶yet to us [there is] 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. (1 Cor. 8:6)

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Mal. 1:6• ⁶A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith Jehovah of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name? (Mal. 1:6)

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Josh. 24:3• ³{i}And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the river, and led him throughout the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed and gave him Isaac.{/i} (Josh. 24:3)

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Isa. 51:2• ²Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah [that] bare you: for when he was alone I called him, and blessed him, and made him many. (Isa. 51:2)

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Isa. 63:16• ¹⁶For thou [art] our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O Jehovah, [art] our father; our Redeemer, from everlasting [is] thy name. (Isa. 63:16)

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Isa. 64:8• ⁸But, now O Jehovah, thou [art] our father; we [are] the clay, and thou our potter; and we all [are] the work of thy hand. (Isa. 64:8)

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Ezek. 33:24• ²⁴Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance. (Ezek. 33:24)

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Matt. 3:9• ⁹{i}And do not think to say within yourselves, We have Abraham for [our] father; for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.{/i} (Matt. 3:9)

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Luke 1:73• ⁷³[the] oath which he swore to Abraham, our father, (Luke 1:73)

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Luke 3:8• ⁸{i}Produce therefore fruits worthy of repentance; and begin not to say in yourselves,{/i} We have Abraham for [our] father; for I say to you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham. (Luke 3:8)

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John 8:39,53,56• ³⁹They answered and said to him, Our father is Abraham. Jesus saith to them, If ye are Abraham's children, ye would practice the works of Abraham;
⁵³Art thou greater than our father Abraham who died, and the prophets died? whom makest thou thyself?
⁵⁶Abraham your father exulted to see my day, and he saw and rejoiced. (John 8:39,53,56)

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Acts 7:2• ²And he said, Brethren and fathers, hear. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran, (Acts 7:2)

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Rom. 4:1• ¹What then shall we say that Abraham our fore-father according to flesh hath found? (Rom. 4:1)

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Rom. 9:10• ¹⁰And not only [so], but also Rebecca having conceived by one, Isaac our father, (Rom. 9:10)

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1 Cor. 8:6• ⁶yet to us [there is] 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. (1 Cor. 8:6)

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Eph. 4:6• ⁶one God and Father of all, that [is] over all, and through all, and in us all. (Eph. 4:6)

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Heb. 12:9• ⁹Then indeed we had fathers of our flesh as chasteners, and we reverenced them: shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of the spirits and live? (Heb. 12:9)

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Job 31:15• ¹⁵In the belly did not he that made me make him?{HR}And did not One fashion us in the womb? (Job 31:15)

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Psa. 100:3• ³Know that Jehovah {i}he{/i} [is] God;{HR}{i}He{/i} made us, and not {i}we,{/i} (Psa. 100:3)

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Isa. 43:1,7,15• ¹But now thus saith Jehovah that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not, for I have redeemed thee; I have called [thee] by thy name, thou [art] mine.
⁷every one that is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory; I have formed him, yea, I have made him.
¹⁵I [am] Jehovah, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King. (Isa. 43:1,7,15)

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Isa. 44:2• ²Thus saith Jehovah that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, [who] helpeth thee, Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen. (Isa. 44:2)

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John 8:41• ⁴¹Ye practice the works of your father. They said [therefore] to him, We were not born of fornication; we have one father, God. (John 8:41)

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Acts 17:25• ²⁵Nor is he served by human hands as needing something more, himself giving to all life, and breath, and all things. (Acts 17:25)

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Mal. 2:11,14‑15• ¹¹Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of Jehovah which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.
¹⁴Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah 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.
¹⁵And 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. (Mal. 2:11,14‑15)

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Jer. 9:4‑5• ⁴{i}Take ye heed every one of his friend, and confide not in any brother; for every brother only supplanteth, and every friend goeth about with slander.{/i}
⁵{i}And they act deceitfully every one with his neighbour, and speak not the truth: they teach their tongue to speak falsehood, they weary themselves with perverse dealing.{/i} (Jer. 9:4‑5)

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Mic. 7:2‑6• ²The good man is perished {i}out of the land, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood, they hunt every man his brother with a net.{/i}
³{i}Both hands are for evil, to do it well. The prince asketh, and the judge is there for a reward; and the great man uttereth his soul's greed: and together they combine it.{/i}
⁴{i}The best of them is as a briar; the most upright, worse than a thorn-fence. The day of thy watchmen, thy visitation is come; now shall be their perplexity.{/i}
⁵Trust 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.
⁶For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house. (Mic. 7:2‑6)

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Matt. 10:21• ²¹{i}But brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child; and children shall rise up against parents and shall put them to death;{/i} (Matt. 10:21)

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Matt. 22:16• ¹⁶{i}And they send out to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Teacher, we know that thou art true and teachest the way of God in truth, and carest not for anyone, for thou regardest not men's person;{/i} (Matt. 22:16)

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Acts 7:26• ²⁶And on the day following he appeared to them as they were striving, and compelled them to peace, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another? (Acts 7:26)

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1 Cor. 6:6‑8• ⁶But brother goeth to law with brother, and this before unbelievers.
⁷Already therefore it is altogether a fault in you that ye go to law among yourselves. Why are ye not rather wronged? why are ye not rather defrauded?
⁸But ye do wrong and defraud, and this brethren. (1 Cor. 6:6‑8)

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Eph. 4:25• ²⁵Wherefore having put off falsehood, speak truth each with his neighbour, for we are members one of another. (Eph. 4:25)

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1 Thess. 4:6• ⁶that he should not over-reach and wrong his brother in the matter; because the Lord is an avenger in respect of all these things, even as we told you before and fully testified. (1 Thess. 4:6)

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Mal. 2:8,11• ⁸But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith Jehovah of hosts.
¹¹Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of Jehovah which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god. (Mal. 2:8,11)

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Ex. 34:10‑16• ¹⁰{i}And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels that have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people in the midst of which thou art shall see the work of Jehovah; for a terrible thing it shall be that I will do with thee.{/i}
¹¹{i}Observe what I command thee this day: behold, I will drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.{/i}
¹²{i}Take heed to thyself, that thou make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which thou shalt come, lest it be a snare in the midst of thee;{/i}
¹³{i}but ye shall demolish their altars, shatter their statues, and hew down their Asherahs.{/i}
¹⁴{i}For thou shalt worship no other God; for Jehovah—Jealous is his name—is a jealous God;{/i}
¹⁵{i}lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and then, when they go a whoring after their gods, and sacrifice unto their gods, thou be invited, and eat of their sacrifice,{/i}
¹⁶{i}and thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.{/i} (Ex. 34:10‑16)

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Josh. 23:12‑16• ¹²{i}For if ye in any wise go back, and cleave unto the residue of these nations, these that remain among you, and make marriages with them, and come in unto them and they unto you:{/i}
¹³{i}know for a certainty that Jehovah your God will no more dispossess these nations from before you, and they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which Jehovah your God hath given you.{/i}
¹⁴{i}And behold, I am going this day the way of all the earth; and ye know in all your heart, and in all your soul, that not one thing hath failed of all the good words that Jehovah your God hath spoken concerning you: all are come to pass unto you—not one thing hath failed thereof.{/i}
¹⁵{i}But it shall come to pass, that as every good word hath been fulfilled to you, that Jehovah your God spoke to you, so will Jehovah bring upon you every evil word, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which Jehovah your God hath given you;{/i}
¹⁶{i}when ye transgress the covenant of Jehovah your God which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods, and bow yourselves unto them, so that the anger of Jehovah shall be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto you.{/i} (Josh. 23:12‑16)

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Ezra 9:11‑14• ¹¹{i}which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land through the filthiness of the peoples of the lands, through their abominations with which they have filled it from one end to another through their uncleanness.{/i}
¹²{i}Now therefore give not your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity for ever; that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.{/i}
¹³{i}And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this,{/i}
¹⁴{i}should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the peoples of these abominations? wouldest thou not be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant nor any to escape?{/i} (Ezra 9:11‑14)

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Ezra 10:2‑3• ²And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.
³{i}And now let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandments of our God; and let it be done according to the law.{/i} (Ezra 10:2‑3)

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Neh. 13:29• ²⁹Remember them, my God, for they are polluters of the priesthood, and of the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites! (Neh. 13:29)

• What are the truths he adduces to show the evil of their conduct? They are two—their common standing before God, on the ground of His covenant (Have we not all one Father?), and their common relationship to God as their Creator (Has not one God created us?). (“Malachi 2” by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

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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?

W. Kelly Translation

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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?