{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/kjv/malachi/3","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T04:18:49.228Z"},"reference":{"translation":"KJV","book":"Malachi","bookSlug":"malachi","chapter":3,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":2,"nextChapter":4,"totalChapters":4,"totalVerses":18},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he <i>is</i> like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap:"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"And he shall sit <i>as</i> 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."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"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 <i>his</i> wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger <i>from his right</i>, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"For I <i>am</i> the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept <i>them</i>. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Ye <i>are</i> cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, <i>even</i> this whole nation."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"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 <i>there shall</i> not <i>be room</i> enough <i>to receive it</i>."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken <i>so much</i> against thee?"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Ye have said, It <i>is</i> vain to serve God: and what profit <i>is it</i> that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, <i>they that</i> tempt God are even delivered."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard <i>it</i>, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not."}],"citation":{"inline":"Malachi 3 (KJV)","markdown":"[Malachi 3](https://primebible.com/kjv/malachi/3)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* KJV. https://primebible.com/kjv/malachi/3 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}