Malachi 3
The New Consensus Bible is an AI-generated contemporary rendering, built from seven public-domain translations and the 20-tradition consensus. See all the work behind this chapter.
1"Look, I am sending my messenger, and he will prepare a way before me! And the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple. Look, the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, is coming," says the LORD of Hosts. 2And who can endure the day of his coming? And who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire, and like launderers' soap. 3And he will sit as a refiner and a purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them like gold and like silver; and they will present to the LORD an offering in righteousness. 4Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years. 5And I will draw near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against those who swear falsely, and against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who turn aside the foreigner, and do not fear me," says the LORD of Hosts. 6"For I am the LORD, I do not change; and you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed. 7From 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 will we return?' 8"Will a human rob God? Yet you are robbing me! But you say, 'How have we robbed you?' In the tithe and the contribution. 9With a curse you are cursed, yet you are robbing me—this whole nation. 10Bring the whole tithe into the house of the treasury, 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 empty out for you a blessing until there is no more space. 11And I will rebuke the devourer for you, and it will not destroy for you the fruit of the ground; nor will the vine in the field miscarry for you," says the LORD of Hosts. 12"And all the nations will call you blessed, for you will be a delightful land," says the LORD of Hosts. 13"Your words have been harsh against me," says the LORD. "Yet you say, 'What have we spoken against you?' 14You have said, 'It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of Hosts? 15And now we are calling the proud blessed; yes, those who do wickedness are built up; yes, they test God and escape.' 16Then the fearers of the LORD spoke one to another; and the LORD paid attention and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before him for the fearers of the LORD, and for those esteeming his name. 17"And they will be mine," says the LORD of Hosts, "in the day that I prepare—a treasured possession; and I will spare them, as a man spares his son who serves him. 18And you will return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between the one serving God and the one who has not served him."
Malachi 3: every translation & traditionThe full study page — all translations compared, the cross-tradition consensus, and the New Consensus Bible on one page.→Create SermonDraft a sermon on Malachi 3 in the voice of a tradition you choose — any length, any level, with a PowerPoint built from the picture book.→