3Malachi 3

1Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the LORD, whom you seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom you delight in: behold, he shall come, says the LORD of hosts.Select Malachi 3:1

2But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appears? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap:Select Malachi 3:2

3And 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, that they may offer to the LORD an offering in righteousness.Select Malachi 3:3

4Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant to the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years.Select Malachi 3:4

5And 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, says the LORD of hosts.Select Malachi 3:5

6For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore you sons of Jacob are not consumed. ¶Select Malachi 3:6

7Even from the days of your fathers you are gone away from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the LORD of hosts. But you said, Wherein shall we return? ¶Select Malachi 3:7

8Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed me. But you say, Wherein have we robbed you? In tithes and offerings.Select Malachi 3:8

9You are cursed with a curse: for you have robbed me, even this whole nation.Select Malachi 3:9

10Bring you all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in my house, and prove me now herewith, says 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.Select Malachi 3:10

11And 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, says the LORD of hosts.Select Malachi 3:11

12And all nations shall call you blessed: for you shall be a delightsome land, says the LORD of hosts. ¶Select Malachi 3:12

13Your words have been stout against me, says the LORD. Yet you say, What have we spoken so much against you?Select Malachi 3:13

14You have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?Select Malachi 3:14

15And now we call the proud happy; yes, they that work wickedness are set up; yes, they that tempt God are even delivered. ¶Select Malachi 3:15

16Then they that feared the LORD spoke often one to another: and the LORD listened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought on his name.Select Malachi 3:16

17And they shall be mine, says the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son that serves him.Select Malachi 3:17

18Then shall you return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serves God and him that serves him not.Select Malachi 3:18