Malachi 3:18

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Summary

Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.

Shall

Zechariah 1:6

Discern

2 Thessalonians 1:5

Between him

General references

Bible References

Shall

You have said, It is no use worshipping God: what profit have we had from keeping his orders, and going in clothing of sorrow before the Lord of armies?

Though Edom says, We are crushed down but we will come back, building up the waste places; this is what the Lord of armies has said: They may put up buildings, but I will have them pulled down; and they will be named The land of evil-doing, and The people against whom the Lord keeps his wrath for ever.

Let your minds be changed, and do not have an evil opinion of me; yes, be changed, for my righteousness is still in me.

But come back, now, all of you, come; and I will not see a wise man among you.

And it will come about that, after they have been uprooted, I will again have pity on them; and I will take them back, every man to his heritage and every man to his land.

May it not be that he will again let his purpose be changed and let a blessing come after him, even a meal offering and a drink offering for the Lord your God?

But my words and my orders, which I gave to my servants the prophets, have they not overtaken your fathers? and turning back they said, As it was the purpose of the Lord of armies to do to us, in reward for our ways and our doings, so has he done.

Discern

Let such a thing be far from you, to put the upright to death with the sinner: will not the judge of all the earth do right?

The upright man will be glad when he sees their punishment; his feet will be washed in the blood of the evil-doer.

Happy is the upright man! for he will have joy of the fruit of his ways.

And at that time Michael will take up his place, the great angel, who is the supporter of the children of your people: and there will be a time of trouble, such as there never was from the time there was a nation even till that same time: and at that time your people will be kept safe, everyone who is recorded in the book.

And these will go away into eternal punishment; but the upright into eternal life.

But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness;

Which is a clear sign of the decision which God in his righteousness has made; to give you a part in his kingdom, for which you have undergone this pain;

Between him

And if it seems evil to you to be the servants of the Lord, make the decision this day whose servants you will be: of the gods whose servants your fathers were across the River, or of the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living: but I and my house will be the servants of the Lord.

If our God, whose servants we are, is able to keep us safe from the burning and flaming fire, and from your hands, O King, he will keep us safe.

If any man is my servant, let him come after me; and where I am, there will my servant be. If any man becomes my servant, my Father will give him honour.

She came after Paul and us, crying out and saying, These men are the servants of the Most High God, who are giving you news of the way of salvation.

For this night there came to my side an angel of the God who is my Master and whose servant I am,

For God is my witness, whose servant I am in spirit in the good news of his Son, that you are at all times in my memory and in my prayers,

Are you not conscious that you are the servants of him to whom you give yourselves to do his desire? if to sin, the end being death, or if to do the desire of God, the end being righteousness.

For they themselves give the news of how we came among you; and how you were turned from images to God, to the worship of a true and living God,

General references

And the Lord will make a division between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt; there will be no loss of any of the cattle of Israel.

Marking out the unclean from the clean, and the living thing which may be used for food from that which may not.

If there is an argument between men and they go to law with one another, let the judges give their decision for the upright, and against the wrongdoer.

His mercy is for all generations in whom is the fear of him.