| 3:1 | Behold, 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. |
| 3:2 | But 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: |
| 3:2 | 他來的日子、誰能當得起呢．他顯現的時候、誰能立得住呢．因為他如煉金之人的火、如漂布之人的鹼。 |
| 3:2 | 他来的日子，谁能当得起呢。他显现的时候，谁能立得住呢。因为他如炼金之人的火，如漂布之人的硷。 |
| mal:4:1 | For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. |
| rev:6:17 | For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand? |
| isa:4:3 | And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem: |
| mat:3:10 | And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. |
| mat:3:11 | I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire: |
| mat:3:12 | Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. |
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| 3:3 | And 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. |
| 3:4 | Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years. |
| 3:5 | And 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. |
| 3:6 | For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. |
| 3:7 | Even 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? |
| 3:8 | Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. |
| 3:9 | Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. |
| 3:10 | Bring 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. |
| 3:11 | And 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. |
| 3:12 | And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts. |
| 3:13 | Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee? |
| 3:14 | Ye 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? |
| 3:15 | And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered. |
| 3:16 | Then 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. |
| 3:17 | And 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. |
| 3:18 | Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not. |
