Withholding Tithes

⁶ For I am the Lord, I do not change; therefore you, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed. ⁷ From the days of your fathers you have gone away from My ordinances 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?”

⁸ Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed Me.

But you say, “How have we robbed You?”

In tithes and offerings. ⁹ You are cursed with a curse, your whole nation, for you are robbing Me. ¹⁰ Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in My house, and test Me now in this, says the Lord of Hosts, if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you a blessing, that there will not be room enough to receive it. ¹¹ I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, so that it will not destroy the fruit of your ground, and the vines in your field will not fail to bear fruit, says the Lord of Hosts. ¹² Then all the nations will call you blessed, for you will be a delightful land, says the Lord of Hosts.