5"My covenant was with him, a covenant of life and peace, and I gave them to him; this called for reverence and he revered me and stood in awe of my name.


In Context

2 If you do not listen, and if you do not set your heart to honor my name," says the Lord Almighty, "I will send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already cursed them, because you have not set your heart to honor me.

3 "Because of you I will rebuke your descendants ; I will spread on your faces the offal from your festival sacrifices, and you will be carried off with it.

4 And you will know that I have sent you this admonition so that my covenant with Levi may continue," says the Lord Almighty.

5 "My covenant was with him, a covenant of life and peace, and I gave them to him; this called for reverence and he revered me and stood in awe of my name.

6 True instruction was in his mouth and nothing false was found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many from sin.

7 "For the lips of a priest ought to preserve knowledge, and from his mouth men should seek instruction- because he is the messenger of the Lord Almighty.

Malachi 2:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:5My 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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:5My covenant was with him of life and peace: and I gave him fear: and he feared me, and he was afraid before my name.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:5My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him that he might fear; and he feared me, and stood in awe of my name.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:5My covenant with him was of life and peace, and I gave them to him that he might fear; and he feared me, and trembled before my name.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:5My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him that he might fear, and he feared me, and stood in awe of my name.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:5My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear with which he feared me, and was afraid before my name.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:5|My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him that he might be reverent toward me; and he was reverent toward me, and stood in awe of my name.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:5My covenant hath been with him of life and of peace, And I make them to him a fear, and he doth fear Me, And because of My name he hath been affrighted.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:5My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear with which he feared me, and was afraid before my name.