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Malachi 3

King James Version · 18 verses · 998 cross-references linking it to 493 other chapters

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  1. 1Behold, 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.109 cross-references: Malachi 4:5, Luke 1:76, Mark 1:2–3, Isaiah 63:9, Acts 19:4
  2. 2But 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:82 cross-references: Zechariah 13:9, Isaiah 4:4, 1 Corinthians 3:13–15, Revelation 6:17, 1 Peter 2:7–8
  3. 3And 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.56 cross-references: Isaiah 1:25, Proverbs 17:3, Hebrews 12:10, Daniel 12:10, Zechariah 13:9
  4. 4Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the Lord, as in the days of old, and as in former years.27 cross-references: 2 Chronicles 7:1–3, Ezekiel 43:26–27, Zechariah 8:3, Isaiah 56:7, 2 Chronicles 8:12–14
  5. 5And 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.141 cross-references: James 5:8–9, Hebrews 13:4, Deuteronomy 5:11, Malachi 2:14, James 5:4
  6. 6For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.52 cross-references: Numbers 23:19, Hebrews 13:8, James 1:17, Lamentations 3:22–23, Jeremiah 32:27
  7. 7Even 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?44 cross-references: Zechariah 1:3, Romans 10:21, Romans 10:3, Deuteronomy 31:20, James 4:8
  8. 8Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.48 cross-references: Proverbs 3:9–10, Matthew 22:21, Mark 12:17, Psalms 29:2, Numbers 18:21–32
  9. 9Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.16 cross-references: Deuteronomy 28:15–19, Haggai 2:14–17, Haggai 1:6–11, Malachi 2:2, Joshua 22:20
  10. 10Bring 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.63 cross-references: 2 Corinthians 9:6–8, Matthew 6:33, Proverbs 3:9–10, Psalms 37:3, Deuteronomy 28:12
  11. 11And 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.12 cross-references: Deuteronomy 11:14, Joel 2:22, Amos 7:1–3, Zechariah 8:12, Joel 2:20
  12. 12And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the Lord of hosts.19 cross-references: Zechariah 8:23, Isaiah 61:9, Isaiah 62:4, Jeremiah 33:9, Deuteronomy 4:6–7
  13. 13Your words have been stout against me, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?42 cross-references: Malachi 2:17, Romans 9:20, Isaiah 37:23, Malachi 1:6–8, 2 Thessalonians 2:4
  14. 14Ye 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?34 cross-references: Isaiah 58:3, Zephaniah 1:12, Job 35:3, Psalms 73:8–13, Zechariah 7:3–6
  15. 15And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.51 cross-references: Malachi 4:1, Malachi 2:17, Job 21:7–15, Numbers 14:22–23, Jeremiah 7:10
  16. 16Then 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.92 cross-references: Revelation 20:12, Psalms 56:8, Malachi 4:2, Revelation 15:4, 1 Thessalonians 5:11
  17. 17And 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.57 cross-references: Exodus 19:5, Deuteronomy 7:6, 2 Corinthians 6:18, Isaiah 62:3–4, Jeremiah 32:38–39
  18. 18Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.61 cross-references: Genesis 18:25, Matthew 25:46, Psalms 58:10–11, Joshua 24:15, Jeremiah 12:15

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