Malachi 3 (NET)

Malachi 3:1¹“I am about to send my messenger, who will clear the way before me. Indeed, the Lord you are seeking will suddenly come to his temple, and the messenger of the covenant, whom you long for, is certainly coming,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

Malachi 3:2²Who can endure the day of his coming? Who can keep standing when he appears? For he will be like a refiner’s fire, like a launderer’s soap.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

Malachi 3:3³He will act like a refiner and purifier of silver and will cleanse the Levites and refine them like gold and silver. Then they will offer the Lord a proper offering.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

Malachi 3:4⁴The offerings of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the Lord as in former times and years past.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

Malachi 3:5⁵“I will come to you in judgment. I will be quick to testify against those who practice divination; those who commit adultery; those who break promises; and those who exploit workers, widows, and orphans, who refuse to help the resident foreigner and in this way show they do not fear me,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

Malachi 3:6⁶“Since, I, the Lord, do not go back on my promises, you, sons of Jacob, have not perished.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

Malachi 3:7⁷From the days of your ancestors you have ignored my commandments and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. “But you say, ‘How should we return?’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

Malachi 3:8⁸Can a person rob God? You are indeed robbing me, but you say, ‘How are we robbing you?’ In tithes and contributions!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

Malachi 3:9⁹You are bound for judgment because you are robbing me—this whole nation is guilty.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 28:15-19Hag 1:6-11Hag 2:14-17Mal 2:2Josh 22:20Isa 43:28Josh 7:12-13

Malachi 3:10¹⁰“Bring the entire tithe into the storehouse so that there may be food in my temple. Test me in this matter,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, “to see if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out blessing for you until there is no room for it all.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

Malachi 3:11¹¹Then I will stop the plague from ruining your crops, and the vine will not lose its fruit before harvest,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 11:14Joel 2:22Zech 8:12Joel 1:4Amos 7:1-3Joel 2:20Amos 4:9Jer 8:13Hab 3:17Hag 2:17

Malachi 3:12¹²“All nations will call you blessed, for you indeed will live in a delightful land,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 61:9Isa 62:4Zech 8:23Luke 1:48Jer 33:92 Chr 32:23Dan 11:41Dan 8:9Deut 11:12Deut 4:6-7

Malachi 3:13¹³“You have criticized me sharply,” says the Lord, “but you ask, ‘How have we criticized you?’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

Malachi 3:14¹⁴You have said, ‘It is useless to serve God. How have we been helped by keeping his requirements and going about like mourners before the Lord of Heaven’s Armies?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

Malachi 3:15¹⁵So now we consider the arrogant to be blessed; indeed, those who practice evil are successful. In fact, those who challenge God escape!’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

Malachi 3:16¹⁶Then those who respected the Lord spoke to one another, and the Lord took notice. A scroll was prepared before him in which were recorded the names of those who respected the Lord and honored his name.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rev 20:12Ps 56:8Mal 4:2Rev 15:4Isa 26:31 Thess 5:11Heb 10:24Heb 4:12-13Mal 3:5Ps 34:15

Malachi 3:17¹⁷“They will belong to me,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, “in the day when I prepare my own special property. I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

Malachi 3:18¹⁸Then once more you will see that I make a distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between the one who serves God and the one who does not.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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