1"Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!" says the Lord of hosts.

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Malachi 4:5, Malachi 4:5, Luke 1:76, Luke 1:76, Mark 1:2

2"But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire, and like launderer's soap;

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Zechariah 13:9, Zechariah 13:9, Isaiah 4:4, Isaiah 4:4, 1 Corinthians 3:13

3and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer to the Lord offerings in righteousness.

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Isaiah 1:25, Isaiah 1:25, Proverbs 17:3, Proverbs 17:3, Hebrews 12:10

4Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasant to the Lord, as in the days of old, and as in ancient years.

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2 Chronicles 7:1, 2 Chronicles 7:3, 2 Chronicles 7:1, 2 Chronicles 7:3, Ezekiel 43:26

5I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and do not fear me," says the Lord of hosts.

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James 5:8, James 5:9, James 5:8, James 5:9, Hebrews 13:4

6"For I, the Lord, do not change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

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Numbers 23:19, Numbers 23:19, Hebrews 13:8, Hebrews 13:8, James 1:17

7From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you," says the Lord of hosts. "But you say, 'How shall we return?'

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Zechariah 1:3, Zechariah 1:3, Romans 10:21, Romans 10:21, Romans 10:3

8Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, 'How have we robbed you?' In tithes and offerings.

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Proverbs 3:9, Proverbs 3:10, Proverbs 3:9, Proverbs 3:10, Matthew 22:21

9You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation.

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Deuteronomy 28:15, Deuteronomy 28:19, Deuteronomy 28:15, Deuteronomy 28:19, Haggai 2:14

10Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this," says 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 for.

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2 Corinthians 9:6, 2 Corinthians 9:8, 2 Corinthians 9:6, 2 Corinthians 9:8, Matthew 6:33

11I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast its fruit before its time in the field," says the Lord of hosts.

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Deuteronomy 11:14, Deuteronomy 11:14, Joel 2:22, Joel 2:22, Amos 7:1

12"All nations shall call you blessed, for you will be a delightful land," says the Lord of hosts.

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Zechariah 8:23, Isaiah 61:9, Zechariah 8:23, Isaiah 61:9, Isaiah 62:4

13"Your words have been stout against me," says the Lord. "Yet you say, 'What have we spoken against you?'

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Malachi 2:17, Malachi 2:17, Romans 9:20, Isaiah 37:23, Romans 9:20

14You have said, 'It is vain to serve God;' and 'What profit is it that we have followed his instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts?

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Isaiah 58:3, Isaiah 58:3, Zephaniah 1:12, Job 35:3, Psalms 73:8

15Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.'

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Malachi 4:1, Malachi 4:1, Malachi 2:17, Job 21:7, Job 21:15

16Then those who feared the Lord spoke one with another; and the Lord listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared the Lord, and who honored his name.

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Revelation 20:12, Revelation 20:12, Psalms 56:8, Psalms 56:8, Malachi 4:2

17They shall be mine," says the Lord of hosts, "my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.

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Exodus 19:5, Exodus 19:5, Deuteronomy 7:6, Deuteronomy 7:6, 2 Corinthians 6:18

18Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn't serve him.

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Genesis 18:25, Matthew 25:46, Genesis 18:25, Matthew 25:46, Psalms 58:10