Malachi 3:18

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 vain to serve God; and, What profit is it that we have kept His charge, and that we have walked as mourners before Jehovah of Hosts?

If Edom says, We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places. So says Jehovah of Hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them the region of wickedness, and the people with whom Jehovah is indignant forever.

Turn back, please let there be no sin; yea, return again, my righteousness is in this matter.

And now all of them, go back, and please come again; and I shall not find among you a wise man.

And it will be after I have plucked them out, I will return and have pity on them, and will bring them again, each man to his inheritance and each man to his land.

Who knows if He will turn and have pity and leave a blessing behind Him, a food offering and a drink offering to Jehovah your God?

But My Words and My statutes which I commanded My servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? And they returned and said, As Jehovah of Hosts planned to do to us, according to our ways and according to our doings, so He has done with us.

Discern

Far be it from You to act in this manner, to kill the righteous with the wicked. And far be it from You, that the righteous should be as the wicked. Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance; he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

Say to the righteous that it is well; for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

And at that time Michael shall stand up, the great ruler who stands for the sons of your people. And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation; until that time. And at that time your people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.

And these shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into everlasting life.

But according to your hardness and your impenitent heart, do you treasure up wrath for yourself in a day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

For this is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God for which you also suffer,

Between him

And if it seems evil to you to serve Jehovah, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served Beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you live. But as for me and my house, we will serve Jehovah.

If it is so that our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, then He will deliver us out of your hand, O king.

If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there also My servant shall be. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.

The same followed Paul and us and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the Most High God, who are announcing to us the way of salvation.

For tonight an angel of God stood beside me, whose I am and whom I serve,

For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of His Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you

Do you not know that to whom you yield yourselves as slaves for obedience, you are slaves to him whom you obey; whether it is of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness.

For they themselves witness what kind of entrance we had to you, even how you turned from idols to God in order to serve the living and true God,

General references

And Jehovah shall separate between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt. And there shall nothing die of all that belongs to the sons of Israel.

to make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the creature that may be eaten and the creature that may not be eaten.

If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and they have been judged, and the righteous one is declared righteous, and the wrongdoer declared guilty,

And His mercy is on those who fear Him from generation to generation.