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

Ye have said, 'It is but lost labour, to serve God: What profit have we for keeping his commandments, and for walking humbly before the LORD of Hosts?

And though Edom said, "Well, we are destroyed, we will go build up again the places that be wasted": yet sayeth the LORD of Hosts, "What they builded, that brake I down: so that it was called a cursed land and people, whom the LORD hath ever been angry withal."

Turn into your own selves, I pray you: be indifferent judges, and consider my guiltlessness:

"As for you, turn you, and get you hence, I pray you - seeing I cannot see one wise man among you.

And when I have rooted them out, I will be at one with them again, and will have mercy upon them: and bring them again, every man to his own heritage, and into his land.

Who can tell whether the Lord will turn and have compassion and shall leave after him a blessing? Sacrifice, and drink offering unto the LORD your God.

But did not my words and statutes, which I commanded by my servants the Prophets, touch your forefathers? Upon this, they gave answer and said, 'Like as the LORD of Hosts devised to do unto us, according to our ways and imaginations, even so hath he dealt with us.''"

Discern

That be far from thee, that thou shouldest do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, and that the righteous should be as the wicked: that be far from thee. Should not the Judge of all the world do according to right?"

The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance, and shall wash his feet in the blood of the ungodly.

Bid the righteous do well, for they shall enjoy the fruits of their studies.

The time will come also, that the great prince Michael, which standeth on thy people side, shall arise up, for there shall come a time of trouble, such as never was, since there began to be any people, unto that same time. Then shall thy people be delivered, yea all those that be found written in the book.

And these shall go into everlasting pain: And the righteous into life eternal.

But thou, after thine hard heart that cannot repent, heapest thee together the treasure of wrath against the day of vengeance: when shall be opened the righteous judgment of God,

which is a token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye are counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer.

Between him

But if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, then choose you this day, whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served, that were on the other side of the water, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land, ye dwelt. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD."

Our God whom we serve, is able to keep us from the hot burning oven, O king, and can right well deliver us out of thy hands:

If any man minister unto me, let him follow me: and where I am, there shall also my minister be. And if any man minister unto me, him will my father honour.

The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, "These men are the servants of the most high God, which show unto us the way of salvation."

For there stood by me this night the angel of God: 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 always in my prayers,

Remember ye not how that to whomsoever ye commit yourselves as servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey: whether it be of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

for they themselves show of you what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from images for to serve the living and true God,

General references

But the LORD shall make a division between the beasts of the Israelites, and the beasts of the Egyptians: so that there shall nothing die of all that pertaineth to the children of Israel.'"

that ye may put difference between unclean and clean, and between the beasts that are eaten and the beasts that are not eaten.'"

When there is strife between men, let them come unto the law, and let the judges justify the righteous and condemn the trespasser.

And his mercy is always on them that fear him, throughout all generations.