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Malachi Chapter 3

Malachi
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Malachi

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In this chapter God declares that the people have become a defiled house and that the priests are corrupt, so He will not hear their prayers. He warns that He will bring judgment on those who reject His law and turn away from His covenant. The message urges the people to repent and seek His presence.

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(1) Behold, 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.
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Malachi 2:7Malachi 4:5Matthew 11:10Matthew 11:11Mark 1:2Mark 1:3Luke 1:76Luke 7:26Luke 7:27Luke 7:28John 1:6John 1:7

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Matthew 11:10Mark 1:2Luke 7:27Malachi 2:7II Kings 6:32Leviticus 26:42

(2) But 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:
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Malachi 4:1Amos 5:18Amos 5:19Amos 5:20Matthew 3:7Matthew 3:8Matthew 3:9Matthew 3:10Matthew 3:11Matthew 3:12Matthew 21:31Matthew 21:32

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John 15:4

(3) And 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.
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Psalms 66:10Proverbs 17:3Proverbs 25:4Isaiah 1:25Isaiah 48:10Jeremiah 6:28Jeremiah 6:29Jeremiah 6:30Ezekiel 22:18Ezekiel 22:19Ezekiel 22:20Ezekiel 22:21

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Exodus 38:17Genesis 23:16Exodus 27:17Exodus 38:19Leviticus 27:6Numbers 7:13

(4) Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years.
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Isaiah 1:26Isaiah 1:27Isaiah 56:7Jeremiah 30:18Jeremiah 30:19Jeremiah 30:20Jeremiah 31:23Jeremiah 31:24Ezekiel 20:40Ezekiel 20:41Ezekiel 43:26Ezekiel 43:27

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Ezekiel 16:55

(5) And 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.
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Malachi 2:17Psalms 50:3Psalms 50:4Psalms 50:5Psalms 50:6Psalms 96:13Psalms 98:9Ezekiel 34:20Ezekiel 34:21Ezekiel 34:22Hebrews 10:30Hebrews 10:31

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Zechariah 1:3Deuteronomy 10:18Deuteronomy 27:19Jeremiah 7:6Jeremiah 22:3Zechariah 7:10

(6) For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
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Genesis 15:7Genesis 15:18Genesis 22:16Exodus 3:14Exodus 3:15Nehemiah 9:7Nehemiah 9:8Isaiah 41:13Isaiah 42:5Isaiah 42:6Isaiah 42:7Isaiah 42:8

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Leviticus 27:33

(7) Even 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?
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Deuteronomy 9:7Deuteronomy 9:8Deuteronomy 9:9Deuteronomy 9:10Deuteronomy 9:11Deuteronomy 9:12Deuteronomy 9:13Deuteronomy 9:14Deuteronomy 9:15Deuteronomy 9:16Deuteronomy 9:17Deuteronomy 9:18

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Song of Solomon 6:13Jeremiah 15:19Jeremiah 44:14Ezekiel 16:55Genesis 3:19Leviticus 25:10

(8) Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
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Psalms 29:2Proverbs 3:9Proverbs 3:10Matthew 22:21Mark 12:17Luke 20:25Romans 13:7Malachi 1:8Malachi 1:13Leviticus 5:15Leviticus 5:16Leviticus 27:2

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I Kings 8:64Numbers 29:39Deuteronomy 12:6II Chronicles 7:7Ezekiel 45:17II Chronicles 29:31

(9) Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.
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Malachi 2:2Deuteronomy 28:15Deuteronomy 28:16Deuteronomy 28:17Deuteronomy 28:18Deuteronomy 28:19Joshua 7:12Joshua 7:13Joshua 22:20Isaiah 43:28Haggai 1:6Haggai 1:7

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Jeremiah 5:15Malachi 2:2Galatians 3:13

(10) Bring 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.
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II Chronicles 31:4II Chronicles 31:5II Chronicles 31:6II Chronicles 31:7II Chronicles 31:8II Chronicles 31:9II Chronicles 31:10Nehemiah 10:33Nehemiah 10:34Nehemiah 10:35Nehemiah 10:36Nehemiah 10:37

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I Kings 8:64II Kings 16:15Ezekiel 41:16Isaiah 44:3Zechariah 1:3

(11) And 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.
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Joel 2:20Amos 4:9Amos 7:1Amos 7:2Amos 7:3Haggai 2:17Deuteronomy 11:14Jeremiah 8:13Joel 1:7Joel 1:12Joel 2:22Habakkuk 3:17

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Deuteronomy 28:4Deuteronomy 28:11Deuteronomy 30:9Jeremiah 7:20Ezekiel 47:12Hosea 10:1

(12) And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.
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Deuteronomy 4:6Deuteronomy 4:7II Chronicles 32:23Psalms 72:17Isaiah 61:9Jeremiah 33:9Zephaniah 3:19Zephaniah 3:20Zechariah 8:23Luke 1:48Deuteronomy 8:7Deuteronomy 8:8

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Psalms 72:17Zechariah 1:3

(13) Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?
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Malachi 2:17Exodus 5:2II Chronicles 32:14II Chronicles 32:15II Chronicles 32:16II Chronicles 32:17II Chronicles 32:18II Chronicles 32:19Job 34:7Job 34:8Psalms 10:11Isaiah 5:19

(14) Ye 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?
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Job 21:14Job 21:15Job 22:17Job 34:9Job 35:3Psalms 73:8Psalms 73:9Psalms 73:10Psalms 73:11Psalms 73:12Psalms 73:13Isaiah 58:3

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Joshua 24:15Judges 9:28Jeremiah 28:14I Samuel 12:21Zechariah 1:3

(15) And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
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Malachi 4:1Esther 5:10Psalms 10:3Psalms 49:18Psalms 73:12Daniel 4:30Daniel 4:37Daniel 5:20Daniel 5:21Daniel 5:22Daniel 5:23Daniel 5:24

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Jeremiah 44:9Joel 2:32

(16) Then 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.
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Malachi 3:5Malachi 4:2Genesis 22:12I Kings 18:3I Kings 18:12Job 28:28Psalms 33:18Psalms 111:10Psalms 112:1Psalms 147:11Isaiah 50:10Acts 9:31

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II Kings 22:13I Chronicles 29:29Revelation 22:19Joshua 4:14II Chronicles 20:34II Chronicles 34:21

(17) And 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.
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Song of Solomon 2:16Jeremiah 31:33Jeremiah 32:38Jeremiah 32:39Ezekiel 16:8Ezekiel 36:27Ezekiel 36:28Zechariah 13:9John 10:27John 10:28John 10:29John 10:30

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Zechariah 1:3

(18) Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
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Malachi 3:14Malachi 3:15Malachi 1:4Job 6:29Job 17:10Jeremiah 12:15Joel 2:14Zechariah 1:6Genesis 18:25Psalms 58:10Psalms 58:11Isaiah 3:10

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Song of Solomon 6:13Luke 22:27Jeremiah 15:19Jeremiah 44:14Ezekiel 16:55Malachi 3:7

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