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 useless to serve God. How have we been helped by keeping his requirements and going about like mourners before the Lord who rules over all?

Edom says, "Though we are devastated, we will once again build the ruined places." So the Lord who rules over all responds, "They indeed may build, but I will overthrow. They will be known as the land of evil, the people with whom the Lord is permanently displeased.

Relent, let there be no falsehood; reconsider, for my righteousness is intact!

"But turn, all of you, and come now! I will not find a wise man among you.

But after I have uprooted the people of those nations, I will relent and have pity on them. I will restore the people of each of those nations to their own lands and to their own country.

Who knows? Perhaps he will be compassionate and grant a reprieve, and leave blessing in his wake -- a meal offering and a drink offering for you to offer to the Lord your God!

But have my words and statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, not outlived your fathers? Then they paid attention and confessed, 'The Lord who rules over all has indeed done what he said he would do to us, because of our sinful ways.'"

Discern

Far be it from you to do such a thing -- to kill the godly with the wicked, treating the godly and the wicked alike! Far be it from you! Will not the judge of the whole earth do what is right?"

The godly will rejoice when they see vengeance carried out; they will bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked.

Tell the innocent it will go well with them, for they will be rewarded for what they have done.

"At that time Michael, the great prince who watches over your people, will arise. There will be a time of distress unlike any other from the nation's beginning up to that time. But at that time your own people, all those whose names are found written in the book, will escape.

And these will depart into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."

But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath, when God's righteous judgment is revealed!

This is evidence of God's righteous judgment, to make you worthy of the kingdom of God, for which in fact you are suffering.

Between him

If you have no desire to worship the Lord, choose today whom you will worship, whether it be the gods whom your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. But I and my family will worship the Lord!"

If our God whom we are serving exists, he is able to rescue us from the furnace of blazing fire, and he will rescue us, O king, from your power as well.

If anyone wants to serve me, he must follow me, and where I am, my servant will be too. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

She followed behind Paul and us and kept crying out, "These men are servants of the Most High God, who are proclaiming to you the way of salvation."

For last night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve came to me

For God, whom I serve in my spirit by preaching the gospel of his Son, is my witness that I continually remember you

Do you not know that if you present yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or obedience resulting in righteousness?

For people everywhere report how you welcomed us and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God

General references

But the Lord will distinguish between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, and nothing will die of all that the Israelites have."'"

to distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between the living creatures that may be eaten and the living creatures that must not be eaten.'"

If controversy arises between people, they should go to court for judgment. When the judges hear the case, they shall exonerate the innocent but condemn the guilty.

from generation to generation he is merciful to those who fear him.