Malachi 3:1-4:6 1 “I am about to send my messenger,
who will clear the way before me. Indeed, the Lord
you are seeking will suddenly come to his temple, and the messenger
of the covenant, whom you long for, is certainly coming,” says the
Lord who rules over all.
2 Who can endure the day of his coming? Who can keep standing when he appears? For he will be like a refiner’s fire,
like a launderer’s soap.
3 He will act like a refiner and purifier of silver and will cleanse the Levites and refine them like gold and silver. Then they will offer the
Lord a proper offering.
4 The offerings
of Judah and Jerusalem
will be pleasing to the
Lord as in former times and years past.
5 “I
will come to you in judgment. I will be quick to testify against those who practice divination, those who commit adultery, those who break promises,
and those who exploit workers, widows, and orphans,
who refuse to help
the immigrant
and in this way show they do not fear me,” says the
Lord who rules over all.
6 “Since, I, the
Lord, do not go back on my promises,
you, sons of Jacob, have not perished.
7 From the days of your ancestors you have ignored
my commandments
and have not kept them! Return to me, and I will return to you,” says the
Lord who rules over all. “But you say, ‘How should we return?’
8 Can a person rob
God? You indeed are robbing me, but you say, ‘How are we robbing you?’ In tithes and contributions!
9 You are bound for judgment
because you are robbing me – this whole nation is guilty.
10 “Bring the entire tithe into the storehouse
so that there may be food in my temple. Test me in this matter,” says the
Lord who rules over all, “to see if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you a blessing until there is no room for it all.
11 Then I will stop the plague
from ruining your crops,
and the vine will not lose its fruit before harvest,” says the
Lord who rules over all.
12 “All nations will call you happy, for you indeed will live in
a delightful land,” says the
Lord who rules over all.
13 “You have criticized me sharply,”
says the
Lord, “but you ask, ‘How have we criticized you?’
14 You have said, ‘It is useless to serve God. How have we been helped
by keeping his requirements and going about like mourners before the
Lord who rules over all?
15 So now we consider the arrogant to be happy; indeed, those who practice evil are successful.
In fact, those who challenge
God escape!’”
16 Then those who respected
the
Lord spoke to one another, and the
Lord took notice.
A scroll
was prepared before him in which were recorded the names of those who respected the
Lord and honored his name.
17 “They will belong to me,” says the
Lord who rules over all, “in the day when I prepare my own special property.
I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.
18 Then once more you will see that I make a distinction between
the righteous and the wicked, between the one who serves God and the one who does not.
1 “For indeed the day
is coming, burning like a furnace, and all the arrogant evildoers will be chaff. The coming day will burn them up,” says the
Lord who rules over all. “It
will not leave even a root or branch.
2 But for you who respect my name, the sun of vindication
will rise with healing wings,
and you will skip about
like calves released from the stall.
3 You will trample on the wicked, for they will be like ashes under the soles of your feet on the day which I am preparing,” says the
Lord who rules over all.
4 “Remember the law of my servant Moses, to whom at Horeb
I gave rules and regulations for all Israel to obey.
5 Look, I will send you Elijah
the prophet before the great and terrible day of the
Lord arrives.
6 He will encourage fathers and their children to return to me,
so that I will not come and strike the earth with judgment.”
Context (NET) Revelation 22:1-21 1 Then
the angel
showed me the river of the water of life – water as clear as crystal – pouring out
from the throne of God and of the Lamb,
2 flowing down the middle of the city’s
main street.
On each side
of the river is the tree of life producing twelve kinds
of fruit, yielding its fruit every month of the year.
Its leaves are for the healing of the nations.
3 And there will no longer be any curse,
and the throne of God and the Lamb will be in the city.
His
servants
will worship
him,
4 and they will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.
5 Night will be no more, and they will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, because the Lord God will shine on them, and they will reign forever and ever.
6 Then
the angel
said to me, “These words are reliable
and true. The Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, has sent his angel to show his servants
what must happen soon.”
7 (Look! I am coming soon! Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy expressed in this book.)
8 I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things,
and when I heard and saw them,
I threw myself down
to worship at the feet of the angel who was showing them to me.
9 But
he said to me, “Do not do this!
I am a fellow servant
with you and with your brothers the prophets, and with those who obey
the words of this book. Worship God!”
10 Then
he said to me, “Do not seal up the words of the prophecy contained in this book, because the time is near.
11 The evildoer must continue to do evil,
and the one who is morally filthy
must continue to be filthy. The
one who is righteous must continue to act righteously, and the one who is holy must continue to be holy.”
12 (Look! I am coming soon, and my reward is with me to pay
each one according to what he has done!
13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end!)
14 Blessed are those who wash their robes so they can have access
to the tree of life and can enter into the city by the gates.
15 Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers
and the sexually immoral, and the murderers, and the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood!
16 “I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you about these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star!”
17 And the Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let the one who hears say: “Come!” And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who wants it take the water of life free of charge.
18 I testify to the one who hears the words of the prophecy contained in this book: If anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described
in this book.
19 And if anyone takes away from the words of this book of prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life
and in the holy city that are described in this book.
20 The one who testifies to these things says, “Yes, I am coming soon!” Amen! Come, Lord Jesus!
21 The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all.
Context (NET) Psalm 150:1-6 1 Praise the
Lord! Praise God in his sanctuary! Praise him in the sky, which testifies to his strength!
2 Praise him for his mighty acts! Praise him for his surpassing greatness!
3 Praise him with the blast of the horn! Praise him with the lyre and the harp!
4 Praise him with the tambourine and with dancing! Praise him with stringed instruments and the flute!
5 Praise him with loud cymbals! Praise him with clanging cymbals!
6 Let everything that has breath praise the
Lord! Praise the
Lord!
Context (NET) Proverbs 31:25-31 25 She is clothed
with strength
and honor,
and she can laugh
at the time
to come.
26 She opens her mouth
with wisdom, and loving instruction
is on her tongue.
27 She watches over
the ways of her household, and does not eat the bread of idleness.
28 Her children rise up
and call her blessed, her husband
also praises her:
29 “Many
daughters
have done valiantly,
but you surpass them all!”
30 Charm is deceitful
and beauty is fleeting,
but a woman who fears the
Lord will be praised.
31 Give
her credit for what she has accomplished,
and let her works praise her
in the city gates.
Context (NET)
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