Malachi 3:8-18

New King James Version

Do Not Rob God

⁸“Will a man rob God?
Yet you have robbed Me!
But you say,
‘In what way have we robbed You?’
^(A)In tithes and offerings.
⁹You are cursed with a curse,
For you have robbed Me,
Even this whole nation.
¹⁰^(B)Bring all the tithes into the ^(C)storehouse,
That there may be food in My house,
And try Me now in this,”
Says the Lord of hosts,
“If I will not open for you the ^(D)windows of heaven
And ^(E)pour out for you such blessing
That there will not be room enough to receive it.

¹¹“And I will rebuke ^(F)the devourer for your sakes,
So that he will not destroy the fruit of your ground,
Nor shall the vine fail to bear fruit for you in the field,”
Says the Lord of hosts;
¹²“And all nations will call you blessed,
For you will be ^(G)a delightful land,”
Says the Lord of hosts.

The People Complain Harshly

¹³“Your^(H) words have been ^[a]harsh against Me,”
Says the Lord,
“Yet you say,
‘What have we spoken against You?’
¹⁴^(I)You have said,
‘It is useless to serve God;
What profit is it that we have kept His ordinance,
And that we have walked as mourners
Before the Lord of hosts?
¹⁵So now ^(J)we call the proud blessed,
For those who do wickedness are ^[b]raised up;
They even ^(K)tempt God and go free.’ ”

A Book of Remembrance

¹⁶Then those ^(L)who feared the Lord ^(M)spoke to one another,
And the Lord listened and heard them;
So ^(N)a book of remembrance was written before Him
For those who fear the Lord
And who ^[c]meditate on His name.

¹⁷“They^(O) shall be Mine,” says the Lord of hosts,
“On the day that I make them My ^(P)jewels.^[d]
And ^(Q)I will spare them
As a man spares his own son who serves him.”
¹⁸^(R)Then you shall again discern
Between the righteous and the wicked,
Between one who serves God
And one who does not serve Him.