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 temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Mal 4:5Luke 1:76Mark 1:2-3Isa 63:9Luke 7:26-28Matt 11:10-11Acts 19:4Mal 2:7Isa 40:3-5John 1:6-7
2But 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: Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Zech 13:9Isa 4:41 Cor 3:13-15Rev 6:171 Pet 2:7-8Luke 21:36Luke 3:17Ps 2:7Heb 10:28-29John 6:42-44
3And 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Isa 1:25Prov 17:3Zech 13:9Heb 12:10Dan 12:10Eph 5:26-27Ps 66:10Titus 2:141 Pet 1:71 Pet 2:9
4Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the Lord, as in the days of old, and as in former years. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 7:1-3Isa 56:7Zech 8:3Ezek 20:40-41Ezek 43:26-27Jer 30:18-201 Chr 15:261 Chr 16:1-31 Chr 21:261 Chr 29:20-22
5And 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Jas 5:8-9Heb 13:4Deut 5:11Jas 5:4Deut 27:19Mal 2:14Gal 5:19-211 Cor 6:9-10Jer 7:9-10Rev 21:8
6For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Num 23:19Heb 13:8Jas 1:17Lam 3:22-23Jer 32:27Isa 40:28-31Rom 8:28-32Exod 3:14-15Heb 6:181 Sam 15:29
7Even 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? Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Zech 1:3Rom 10:21Jas 4:8Deut 31:20Rom 10:3Hos 14:1Isa 55:6-7Jer 3:12-14Lev 26:40-42Neh 9:28-30
8Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 3:9-10Matt 22:21Mark 12:17Ps 29:2Luke 20:25Mal 1:13Num 18:21-32Josh 7:11Lev 27:2-34Rom 13:7
9Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 28:15-19Hag 1:6-11Hag 2:14-17Mal 2:2Josh 22:20Isa 43:28Josh 7:12-13
10Bring 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Cor 9:6-8Matt 6:33Prov 3:9-10Ps 37:3Deut 28:12Lev 27:30Neh 13:10-13Neh 12:442 Chr 31:4-19Num 18:21
11And 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 11:14Joel 2:22Zech 8:12Joel 1:4Amos 7:1-3Joel 2:20Amos 4:9Jer 8:13Hab 3:17Hag 2:17
12And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the Lord of hosts. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Isa 61:9Isa 62:4Zech 8:23Luke 1:48Jer 33:92 Chr 32:23Dan 11:41Dan 8:9Deut 11:12Deut 4:6-7
13Your words have been stout against me, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee? Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Mal 2:17Isa 37:23Rom 9:202 Thess 2:4Mal 1:6-82 Chr 32:14-19Exod 5:2Jer 8:12Job 34:7-8Job 40:8
14Ye 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? Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Isa 58:3Ps 73:8-13Zeph 1:12Job 35:3Zech 7:3-6Job 34:9Joel 2:12Job 22:17Jas 4:9Job 21:14-15
15And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Jer 12:1-2Job 21:7-15Mal 2:17Mal 4:1Job 22:23Matt 4:6-71 Pet 5:5Acts 12:21Acts 5:9Dan 4:30
16Then 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Rev 20:12Ps 56:8Mal 4:2Rev 15:4Isa 26:31 Thess 5:11Heb 10:24Heb 4:12-13Mal 3:5Ps 34:15
17And 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Exod 19:5Deut 7:62 Cor 6:18Isa 62:3-4Rom 8:321 Pet 2:9Jer 32:38-39Deut 26:17-18Jer 31:33Deut 14:2
18Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Matt 25:46Gen 18:25Ps 58:10-11Josh 24:15Mal 3:14-15Acts 27:23Jer 12:15John 12:262 Thess 1:5-10Isa 3:10-11