Malachi 3:6-10

New Century Version

Stealing from God

⁶ “I the Lord do not change. So you descendants of Jacob have not been destroyed. ⁷ Since the time of your ancestors, you have disobeyed my rules and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says the Lord All-Powerful.

“But you ask, ‘How can we return?’

⁸ “Should a person rob God? But you are robbing me.

“You ask, ‘How have we robbed you?’

“You have robbed me in your offerings and the tenth of your crops. ⁹ So a curse is on you, because the whole nation has robbed me. ¹⁰ Bring to the storehouse a full tenth of what you earn so there will be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord All-Powerful. “I will open the windows of heaven for you and pour out all the blessings you need.