Malachi:3:6-18
rsv@Malachi:3:6 @ "For I the LORD do not change; therefore you, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed.
rsv@Malachi:3:7 @ From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my statutes 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?'
rsv@Malachi:3:8 @ Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, `How are we robbing thee?' In your tithes and offerings.
rsv@Malachi:3:9 @ You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me; the whole nation of you.
rsv@Malachi:3:10 @ Bring the full tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house; and thereby put me to the test, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you an overflowing blessing.
rsv@Malachi:3:11 @ I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your soil; and your vine in the field shall not fail to bear, says the LORD of hosts.
rsv@Malachi:3:12 @ Then all nations will call you blessed, for you will be a land of delight, says the LORD of hosts.
rsv@Malachi:3:13 @ "Your words have been stout against me, says the LORD. Yet you say, `How have we spoken against thee?'
rsv@Malachi:3:14 @ You have said, `It is vain to serve God. What is the good of our keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning before the LORD of hosts?
rsv@Malachi:3:15 @ Henceforth we deem the arrogant blessed; evildoers not only prosper but when they put God to the test they escape.'"
rsv@Malachi:3:16 @ Then those who feared the LORD spoke with one another; the LORD heeded and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the LORD and thought on his name.
rsv@Malachi:3:17 @ "They shall be mine, says the LORD of hosts, my special possession on the day when I act, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.
rsv@Malachi:3:18 @ Then once more you shall distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him.
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