Malachi 3:5

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Malachi 3:5

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Summary

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.

I will come

A swift

The sorcerers

Against those

James 5:4

General references

Bible References

I will come

Ye have wearied LORD with your words. Yet ye say, How have we wearied him? In that ye say, Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of LORD, and he delights in them, or Where is the God of justice?

Our God comes, and does not keep silence. A fire devours before him, and it is very tempestuous round about him.

before LORD, for he comes. For he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with his truth.

before LORD, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.

Therefore thus says lord LORD to them: Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.

For we know him who said, Vengeance is for me, I will repay, says Lord. And again, Lord will judge his people.

Be ye also patient. Establish your hearts, because the coming of the Lord has approached.

And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men, saying, Behold, Lord came with his holy myriads,

A swift

Yet ye say, Why? Because LORD has been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou have dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify to thee, I am God, [even] thy God.

Hear, O my people, and I will testify to thee, O Israel, if thou would hearken to me!

because they have wrought folly in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I did not command them. And I am he who knows, and am witness, says LORD.

Hear, ye peoples, all of you. Hearken, O earth, and all who are in it, and let lord LORD be witness against you, LORD from his holy temple.

But woe to you, scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye devour widows' houses, and praying long in pretence. Because of this ye will receive greater condemnation.

The sorcerers

And the soul that turns to those who have familiar spirits, and to the wizards, to play the harlot after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.

Thou shall not take the name of LORD thy God in vain, for LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that ye have not known,

Behold, the rulers of Israel, each one according to his power, have been in thee to shed blood.

Then he said to me, This is the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole land. For everyone who steals shall be cut off on the one side according to it, and everyone who swears shall be cut off on the other side according t

Or know ye not that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not led astray. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate men, nor homosexuals,

Now the works of the flesh are apparent, which are, adultery, fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness,

Marriage is precious in every way, and the undefiled bed, but God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

But for the cowards, and unbelieving, and sinful, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

Outside are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every man who loves and makes a lie.

Against those

And thou shall not wrong a sojourner, neither shall thou oppress him, for ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

Thou shall not oppress thy neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of a hired servant shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.

Thou shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brothers, or of thy sojourners that are in thy land within thy gates.

Cursed be he who distorts the justice to the sojourner, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Do not rob a poor man, because he is poor, nor oppress an afflicted man in the gate.

Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by injustice, who uses his neighbor's service without wages, and gives him not his hire,

Behold the wage of the workmen who reaped your fields. The man who was defrauded by you cries out. And the outcries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of Lord of hosts.

General references

Thou shall not commit adultery.

Thou shall not distort the justice [due] to thy poor in his case.

And thou shall not lay carnally with thy neighbor's wife, to defile thyself with her.

And he shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causes the curse. And the water that causes the curse shall enter into her bitter.

Neither shall thou bear FALSE witness against thy neighbor.

Thou shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brothers, or of thy sojourners that are in thy land within thy gates.

Cursed be he who distorts the justice to the sojourner, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.

They kill the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless.

Shall I not visit for these things? says LORD. Shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

Instead ye do wrong, and defraud, and these things to brothers.