The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Malachi 3:6 (CSB)

6 “Because I, the Lord, have not changed, you descendants of Jacob have not been destroyed.

 

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Malachi 3:7 (CSB)

7 “Since the days of your ancestors, you have turned from my statutes; you have not kept them. Return to me,
and I will return to you,” says the Lord of Armies.

Yet you ask, “How can we return?”

 

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Malachi 3:8 (CSB)

8 “Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing me!”

“How do we rob you?” you ask.

“By not making the payments of the tenth and the contributions.

 

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Malachi 3:9 (CSB)

9 You are suffering under a curse, yet you—the whole nation—are still robbing me.

 

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Malachi 3:10 (CSB)

10 Bring the full tenth into the storehouse so that there may be food in my house. Test me in this way,” says the Lord of Armies.
“See if I will not open the floodgates of heaven and pour out a blessing for you without measure.

 

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Malachi 3:11 (NASB)

11 Then I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruit of your ground; nor will the vine in the field
prove fruitless to you,” says the Lord of armies.

 

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Malachi 3:12 (NASB)

12 “All the nations will call you blessed, for you will be a delightful land,” says the Lord of armies.

 

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Malachi 3:13 (NASB)

13 “Your words have been arrogant against Me,” says the Lord. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against You?’

 

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Malachi 3:14 (NASB)

14 You have said, ‘It is pointless to serve God; and what benefit is it for us that we have done what He required,
and that we have walked in mourning before the Lord of armies?

 

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Malachi 3:15 (NASB)

15 So now we call the arrogant blessed; not only are the doers of wickedness built up, but they also put God to the test
and escape punishment.’”

 

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Malachi 3:16 (RSV)

16 Then those who feared the Lord spoke with one another; the Lord heeded and heard them, and a book of remembrance
was written before him of those who feared the Lord and thought on his name.

 

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Malachi 3:17 (RSV)

17 “They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, my special possession on the day when I act, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.

 

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Malachi 3:18 (RSV)

18 Then once more you shall distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God
and one who does not serve him.

 

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Malachi 4:1 (NIV)

Surely the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble, and that day that is coming
will set them on fire,’ says the Lord Almighty. ‘Not a root or a branch will be left to them.

 

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Malachi 4:2 (NIV)

2 But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its rays. And you will go out and frolic
like well-fed calves.

 

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Malachi 4:3 (NIV)

3 Then you will trample on the wicked; they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day when I act,’ says the Lord Almighty.

 

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Malachi 4:4 (NIV)

4 ‘Remember the law of my servant Moses, the decrees and laws I gave him at Horeb for all Israel.

 

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Malachi 4:5 (NIV)

5 ‘See, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before that great and dreadful day of the Lord comes.

 

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Malachi 4:6 (NIV)

6 He will turn the hearts of the parents to their children, and the hearts of the children to their parents;
or else I will come and strike the land with total destruction.’

 

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