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And who can stand when He appears? For He will be like a refiner’s fire, like a launderer’s soap. <A name="4"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver. Then they will present offerings to the LORD in righteousness. <A name="5"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Then the offerings of Judah and Jerusalem will please the LORD, as in days of old and years gone by. <A name="6"></a><p class="indent1stline"><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts. <A name="7"></a><p class="hdg">Robbing God<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“Because I, the LORD, do not change, you descendants of Jacob have not been destroyed. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Yet from the days of your fathers, you have turned away from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Hosts. <p class="reg">“But you ask, ‘How can we return?’ <A name="9"></a><p class="indent1"><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! <p class="reg"> But you ask, ‘How do we rob You?’ <p class="reg"> In tithes and offerings. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>You are cursed with a curse, yet you—the whole nation—are still robbing Me. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this,” says the LORD of Hosts. “See if I will not open the windows of heaven and pour out for you blessing without measure.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I will rebuke the devourer<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your land, and the vine in your field will not fail to produce fruit,” says the LORD of Hosts. <A name="13"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“Then all the nations will call you blessed, for you will be a land of delight,” says the LORD of Hosts. <A name="14"></a><p class="hdg">The Book of Remembrance<p class="indent1stline"><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“Your words against Me have been harsh,” says the LORD. “Yet you ask, ‘What have we spoken against You?’ <A name="15"></a><p class="indent1"><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His requirements and walking mournfully before the LORD of Hosts? <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>So now we call the arrogant blessed. Not only do evildoers prosper, they even test God and escape.’<span class="thinq"> </span>” <A name="17"></a><p class="indent1"><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>At that time those who feared the LORD spoke with one another, and the LORD listened and heard them. So a scroll of remembrance was written before Him regarding those who feared the LORD and honored His name. <A name="18"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“They will be Mine,” says the LORD of Hosts, “on the day when I prepare My treasured possession. And I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/malachi/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Cited in <a href="../matthew/11.htm#10">Matthew 11:10</a>, <a href="../mark/1.htm#2">Mark 1:2</a>, and <a href="../luke/7.htm#27">Luke 7:27</a><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> Literally <i>blessing for which there will be no room</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">11</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <i>The devourer</i><span class="thin"> </span> is probably a name for a crop-destroying pest.<br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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