Malachi:3

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* Behold , I will send my messenger mal #ak #, 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 . * But who may abide the day of his coming ? and who shall stand when he appeareth ? for he is like a refiners fire , and like fullers soap : * 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 . * Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD , as in the days of old , and as in former years . * 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 . * For I am the LORD , I change not ; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed . * 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 ? * Will a man rob God ? Yet ye have robbed me . But ye say , Wherein have we robbed thee ? In tithes and offerings . * Ye are cursed with a curse : for ye have robbed me , even this whole nation . * Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse , that there may be meat in mine house , and prove me now herewith zo #th #, 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 . * 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 . * And all nations shall call you blessed : for ye shall be a delightsome land , saith the LORD of hosts . * Your words have been stout against me , saith the LORD . Yet ye say , What have we spoken so much against thee ? * 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 ? * And now we callthe proud happy ; yea , they that work wickedness are set up ; yea , they that tempt God are even delivered . * 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 . * 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 . * 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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