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title: Malachi 3
slug: kjv/malachi-3
createdAt: 2024-08-25T04:06:02.690Z
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**1 **Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts. **2 **But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he *is* like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap: **3 **And 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 unto the LORD an offering in righteousness. **4 **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.

**7 **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. **9 **Ye *are* cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, *even* this whole nation. **10 **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. **17 **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.