MALACHI 3
1 Behold, I send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in, behold, he cometh, saith the LORD of hosts.
2 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap:
3 and he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver; and they shall offer unto the LORD offerings in righteousness.
4 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in ancient years.
5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers; and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
6 For I the LORD change not; therefore ye, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed.
7 From the days of your fathers ye have turned aside from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye say, Wherein shall we return?
8 Will a man rob God? yet ye rob me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
9 Ye are cursed with the curse; for ye rob me, even this whole nation.
10 Bring ye the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.
12 And all nations shall call you happy: for ye shall he a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.
13 Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein have we spoken against thee?
14 Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?
15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and are delivered.
16 Then they that feared the LORD spake one with another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before him, for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.
17 And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in the day that I do make, even a peculiar treasure; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
18 Then shall ye return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
Cross-references
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- 1Mal 4:5, Luk 1:76, Mrk 1:2–3, Mat 11:10–11, Luk 7:26–28, Isa 63:9, Mal 2:7, Act 19:4
- 2Zec 13:9, Isa 4:4, 1Co 3:13–15, Rev 6:17, 1Pe 2:7–8, Luk 21:36, Luk 3:17, Psa 2:7
- 3Isa 1:25, Pro 17:3, Zec 13:9, Heb 12:10, Dan 12:10, Eph 5:26–27, Psa 66:10, Tit 2:14
- 42Ch 7:1–3, Isa 56:7, Zec 8:3, Jer 30:18–20, Ezk 43:26–27, Ezk 20:40–41, 2Ch 8:12–14, Jer 2:2–3
- 5Jas 5:8–9, Heb 13:4, Deu 5:11, Jas 5:4, Deu 27:19, Mal 2:14, Gal 5:19–21, Jer 7:9–10
- 6Num 23:19, Heb 13:8, Jas 1:17, Lam 3:22–23, Jer 32:27, Isa 40:28–31, Rom 8:28–32, Exo 3:14–15
- 7Zec 1:3, Rom 10:21, Jas 4:8, Deu 31:20, Rom 10:3, Lev 26:40–42, Hos 14:1, Neh 9:28–30
- 8Pro 3:9–10, Mat 22:21, Mrk 12:17, Psa 29:2, Luk 20:25, Mal 1:13, Num 18:21–32, Jos 7:11
- 9Deu 28:15–19, Mal 2:2, Hag 1:6–11, Hag 2:14–17, Jos 22:20, Isa 43:28, Jos 7:12–13
- 102Co 9:6–8, Mat 6:33, Pro 3:9–10, Psa 37:3, Deu 28:12, Lev 27:30, Neh 13:10–13, Neh 12:44
- 11Deu 11:14, Jol 2:22, Zec 8:12, Jol 1:4, Jol 2:20, Amo 7:1–3, Amo 4:9, Jer 8:13
- 12Isa 61:9, Zec 8:23, Isa 62:4, Luk 1:48, Jer 33:9, Deu 11:12, Dan 8:9, Zep 3:19–20
- 13Mal 2:17, Isa 37:23, Rom 9:20, Mal 1:6–8, 2Th 2:4, Job 40:8, 2Ch 32:14–19, Mal 2:14
- 14Isa 58:3, Psa 73:8–13, Zep 1:12, Job 35:3, Zec 7:3–6, Jol 2:12, Job 34:9, Job 22:17
- 15Jer 12:1–2, Job 21:7–15, Mal 4:1, Mal 2:17, Job 22:23, Mat 4:6–7, Psa 49:18, Psa 78:56
- 16Rev 20:12, Psa 56:8, Mal 4:2, Rev 15:4, Isa 26:3, Heb 4:12–13, 1Th 5:11, Heb 10:24
- 17Exo 19:5, Deu 7:6, 2Co 6:18, Isa 62:3–4, Rom 8:32, Jer 32:38–39, 1Pe 2:9, Deu 26:17–18
- 18Mat 25:46, Psa 58:10–11, Gen 18:25, Jos 24:15, Mal 3:14–15, Act 27:23, Jer 12:15, Jhn 12:26
Topics in this chapter
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Afflictions and Adversities, Aliens, Art, Backsliders, Blasphemy, Blessing, Book, Character, Children, Church, Communion, Condescension of God, Employee, Employer, Fear, Fellowship, Fire, Fuller, Furnace, God, Godlessness, Gold, Heaven, Hireling, Hypocrisy, Infidelity, Israel, Prophecies Concerning, Jesus, the Christ, Jewels, Labor, Levites, Liberality, Malachi, Master, Messenger, Murmuring, Oppression, Orphan, Parsimony (Stinginess), Perjury, Presumption, Prophecy, Purity, Quotations and Allusions, Refining, Repentance, Righteous, Righteousness, Servant, Silver, Skepticism, Soap, Sorcery, Strangers, Symbols and Similitudes, Temple, Tithes, Treasure-Houses, Vanity, Wages, Wicked (People), Widow, Worship