Verse-Reference
Reference-Verse
Abbreviate Books
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 Mal 3:1 |
"Behold, I am going to send My [fn]messenger, and he will [fn]clear the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to His temple; [fn]and the [fn]messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight, behold, He is coming," says the LORD of hosts. |
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Mal 3:2 |
"But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner's fire and like [fn]fullers' soap. |
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Mal 3:3 |
"He will sit as a smelter and purifier of silver, and He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, so that they may present to the LORD [fn]offerings in righteousness. |
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Mal 3:4 |
"Then the [fn]offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the LORD as in the days of old and as in former years. |
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Mal 3:5 |
"Then I will draw near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers and against those who swear falsely, and against those who oppress the wage earner in his wages, the widow and the [fn]orphan, and those who turn aside the [fn]alien and do not [fn]fear Me," says the LORD of hosts. |
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Mal 3:6 |
"For [fn]I, the LORD, do not change; therefore you, O sons of Jacob, [fn]are not consumed. |
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Mal 3:7 |
"From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you," says the LORD of hosts. "But you say, 'How shall we return?' |
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Mal 3:8 |
"Will a man [fn]rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you say, 'How have we robbed You?' In tithes and [fn]offerings. |
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Mal 3:9 |
"You are cursed with a curse, for you are [fn]robbing Me, the whole nation of you! |
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Mal 3:10 |
"Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be [fn]food in My house, and test Me now in this," says the LORD of hosts, "if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you a blessing until [fn]it overflows. |
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Mal 3:11 |
"Then I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not [fn]destroy the fruits of the ground; nor will your vine in the field cast its grapes," says the LORD of hosts. |
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Mal 3:12 |
"All the nations will call you blessed, for you shall be a delightful land," says the LORD of hosts. |
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Mal 3:13 |
"Your words have been [fn]arrogant against Me," says the LORD. "Yet you say, 'What have we spoken against You?' |
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Mal 3:14 |
"You have said, 'It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept His charge, and that we have walked in mourning before the LORD of hosts? |
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Mal 3:15 |
'So now we call the arrogant blessed; not only are the doers of wickedness built up but they also test God and escape.'" |
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Mal 3:16 |
Then those who [fn]feared the LORD spoke to one another, and the LORD gave attention and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before Him for those who [fn]fear the LORD and who esteem His name. |
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Mal 3:17 |
"They will be Mine," says the LORD of hosts, "on the day that I [fn]prepare My [fn]own possession, and I will [fn]spare them as a man [fn]spares his own son who serves him." |
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Mal 3:18 |
So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve Him. |
NASB Footnotes:
- (3:1) Or, angel
- (3:1) Or, prepare
- (3:1) Or, even
- (3:2) Literally: laundrymen's
- (3:3) Or, grain offerings
- (3:4) Or, grain offering
- (3:5) Or, fatherless
- (3:5) Or, sojourner
- (3:5) Or, revere
- (3:6) Or, I am the LORD; I do not
- (3:6) Or, have not come to an end
- (3:8) Or, defraud
- (3:8) Or, heave offerings
- (3:9) Or, defrauding
- (3:10) Literally: prey
- (3:10) Or, there is not room enough
- (3:11) Literally: ruin
- (3:13) Literally: strong
- (3:16) Or, revere(d)
- (3:17) Literally: make
- (3:17) Or, special treasure
- (3:17) Or, have (has) compassion on
