BLB Mal 3

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Mal 3:5 — 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.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

I will come		Mal 2:17; Psa 50:3-6; Psa 96:13; Psa 98:9; Eze 34:20-22; Hbr 10:30,31; Jam 5:8,9; Jud 1:14,15
a swift		Mal 2:14; Psa 50:7; Psa 81:8; Jer 29:23; Mic 1:2; Mat 23:14-35
the sorcerers		Lev 20:6,10,27; Deu 5:11,17-21; Jer 7:9,10; Eze 22:6-12; Zec 5:3,4; 1Cr 6:9,10; Gal 5:19-21; Hbr 13:4; Rev 21:8; Rev 22:15
against those		Exd 22:21-24; Lev 19:13; Deu 24:14,15,17; Deu 27:19; Pro 22:22,23; Pro 23:10,11; Jer 22:13-17; Jam 5:4,12
oppress		or, defraud. 1Th 4:6
fear		Gen 20:11; Gen 42:18; Exd 1:17; Exd 18:21; Neh 5:15; Psa 36:1; Pro 8:13; Pro 16:6; Luk 23:40; Rom 3:8

Correlating Passages

I will come

	Mal 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?
	Psa 50:3	Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
	Psa 50:4	He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.
	Psa 50:5	Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
	Psa 50:6	And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God [is] judge himself. Selah.
	Psa 96:13	Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.
	Psa 98:9	Before the LORD; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.
	Eze 34:20	Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them; Behold, I, [even] I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle.
	Eze 34:21	Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad;
	Eze 34:22	Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle.
	Hbr 10:30	For we know him that hath said, Vengeance [belongeth] unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.
	Hbr 10:31	[It is] a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
	Jam 5:8	Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
	Jam 5:9	Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.
	Jud 1:14	And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
	Jud 1:15	To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard [speeches] which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

a swift

	Mal 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.
	Psa 50:7	Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I [am] God, [even] thy God.
	Psa 81:8	Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;
	Jer 29:23	Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and [am] a witness, saith the LORD.
	Mic 1:2	Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.
	Mat 23:14	Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
	Mat 23:15	Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
	Mat 23:16	Woe unto you, [ye] blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!
	Mat 23:17	[Ye] fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?
	Mat 23:18	And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.
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the sorcerers

	Lev 20:6	And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.
	Lev 20:10	And the man that committeth adultery with [another] man's wife, [even he] that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
	Lev 20:27	A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood [shall be] upon them.
	Deu 5:11	Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold [him] guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
	Deu 5:17	Thou shalt not kill.
	Deu 5:18	Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
	Deu 5:19	Neither shalt thou steal.
	Deu 5:20	Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.
	Deu 5:21	Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any [thing] that [is] thy neighbour's.
	Jer 7:9	Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
	Jer 7:10	And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?
	Eze 22:6	Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood.
	Eze 22:7	In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
	Eze 22:8	Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
	Eze 22:9	In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.
	Eze 22:10	In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.
	Eze 22:11	And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter.
	Eze 22:12	In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.
	Zec 5:3	Then said he unto me, This [is] the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off [as] on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off [as] on that side according to it.
	Zec 5:4	I will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.
	1Cr 6:9	Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
	1Cr 6:10	Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
	Gal 5:19	Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
	Gal 5:20	Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
	Gal 5:21	Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
	Hbr 13:4	Marriage [is] honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
	Rev 21:8	But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
	Rev 22:15	For without [are] dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

against those

	Exd 22:21	Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
	Exd 22:22	Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
	Exd 22:23	If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;