Malachi 3:1-8

1 “I will send my messenger, who will prepare the way before me. Then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to his temple; the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, will come,” says the LORD Almighty.
2 But who can endure the day of his coming? Who can stand when he appears? For he will be like a refiner’s fire or a launderer’s soap.
3 He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; he will purify the Levites and refine them like gold and silver. Then the LORD will have men who will bring offerings in righteousness,
4 and the offerings of Judah and Jerusalem will be acceptable to the LORD, as in days gone by, as in former years.
5 “So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners among you of justice, but do not fear me,” says the LORD Almighty.

Breaking Covenant by Withholding Tithes

6 “I the LORD do not change. So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed.
7 Ever since the time of your ancestors you have turned away from my decrees and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD Almighty. “But you ask, ‘How are we to return?’
8 “Will a mere mortal rob God? Yet you rob me. “But you ask, ‘How are we robbing you?’ “In tithes and offerings.

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Cross References 31

  • 1. S Numbers 27:21; S 2 Chronicles 36:15
  • 2. S Isaiah 40:3; S Matthew 3:3; Matthew 11:10*; Mark 1:2*; Luke 7:27*
  • 3. Micah 5:2
  • 4. S Isaiah 42:6
  • 5. S 1 Samuel 9:20
  • 6. S Ezekiel 22:14; Revelation 6:17
  • 7. S Ezekiel 7:7; S Daniel 7:13; S Joel 2:31; S Matthew 16:27; James 5:8; 2 Peter 3:4; S Revelation 1:7
  • 8. S 1 Samuel 6:20
  • 9. S Isaiah 1:31; S Isaiah 30:30; S Zechariah 13:9; Matthew 3:10-12
  • 10. S Job 9:30
  • 11. S Daniel 12:10; S 1 Corinthians 3:13
  • 12. S 1 Chronicles 23:28; S Isaiah 1:25
  • 13. S Job 28:1; S Psalms 12:6; 1 Peter 1:7; Revelation 3:18
  • 14. S Psalms 132:9
  • 15. 2 Chronicles 7:12; Psalms 51:19; Malachi 1:11
  • 16. S 2 Chronicles 7:3; S Ezekiel 20:40
  • 17. S Exodus 7:11; S Isaiah 47:9
  • 18. Exodus 20:14; James 2:11; 2 Peter 2:12-14
  • 19. Leviticus 19:11-12; S Jeremiah 7:9
  • 20. S Leviticus 19:13; James 5:4
  • 21. S Exodus 22:22
  • 22. S Exodus 22:21; S Deuteronomy 24:19; S Ezekiel 22:7
  • 23. S Deuteronomy 31:12; S Isaiah 1:2
  • 24. S Numbers 23:19; S Hebrews 7:21; James 1:17
  • 25. S Job 34:15; S Hosea 11:9
  • 26. S Exodus 32:8; S Jeremiah 7:26; Acts 7:51
  • 27. S Isaiah 44:22; S Ezekiel 18:32
  • 28. S Zechariah 1:3; James 4:8
  • 29. S Malachi 1:2
  • 30. S Zechariah 5:3
  • 31. S Leviticus 27:30; Numbers 18:21; S Nehemiah 13:10-12; Luke 18:12
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