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King James
VersionMalachi 2. The
Book of Malachi
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Chapter 3 |
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1Behold, I will send my messenger,
and he shall prepare the way before me: and the LORD, whom ye seek, shall
suddenly come to his 2temple, even the messenger of the covenant,
whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.
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Matt 11:10,
Mark 1:2,
Luke 7:27
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2nd Chron 6:18,
Hag 2:7,
Hag 2:9,
Matt 12:6
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But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he
appeareth? for he is like a refiner's 1fire, and like
fullers' soap:
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Isa 4:4,
Matt 3:11,
Luke 3:16
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3 | And he
shall sit as a 1refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall
purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they
may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.
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Isa 66:24,
Mal 4:1,
Matt 3:12,
Matt 13:30,
Matt 13:42,
Mark 9:43,
Mark 9:48
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Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the
LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former 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 am the LORD, I change not; therefore
ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. |
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Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and
have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD
of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return? |
8 | Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me.
But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. |
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Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. |
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Bring ye all the tithes 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 blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the
LORD of hosts. | 13 | Your
words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have
we spoken so much against thee? | 14 |
Ye 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? |
15 | And now we call
the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they
that tempt God are even delivered. | 16 |
Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD
hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before
him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name. |
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And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make
up my jewels; 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. |
Malachi 4

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