Parallel Verses
New Heart English Bible
Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn't serve him.
New American Standard Bible
So you will again
King James Version
Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
Holman Bible
So you will again see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve Him.
International Standard Version
When you return, you will see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, and between the one who serves God and the one who does not."
A Conservative Version
Then ye shall return and discern between the righteous man and the wicked man, between him who serves God and him who does not serve him.
American Standard Version
Then shall ye return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
Amplified
Then you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between the one who serves God and the one who does not serve Him.
Bible in Basic English
Then you will again see how the upright man is different from the sinner, and the servant of God from him who is not.
Darby Translation
And ye shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
Julia Smith Translation
And ye turned back and saw between the just to the unjust, and between him serving God and to him serving him not
King James 2000
Then shall you return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serves God and him that serves him not.
Lexham Expanded Bible
You will return and see [the difference] between [the] righteous and [the] wicked, between [the one who] serves God and the one who does not serve him.
Modern King James verseion
Then you shall again see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God, and him who does not serve Him.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Turn you therefore, and consider what difference is betwixt the righteous and ungodly: betwixt him that serveth God, and him that serveth him not.
NET Bible
Then once more you will see that I make a distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between the one who serves God and the one who does not.
The Emphasized Bible
So shall ye return, and see the difference, between the righteous and the lawless, - between him that serveth God, and him that serveth him not.
Webster
Then shall ye return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
World English Bible
Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn't serve him.
Youngs Literal Translation
And ye have turned back and considered, Between the righteous and the wicked, Between the servant of God and him who is not His servant.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Malachi 3:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Book Of Remembrance Is Written
17 They shall be mine," says the LORD of hosts, "my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him. 18 Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn't serve him.
Cross References
Genesis 18:25
Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?"
Psalm 58:10-11
The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance. He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked;
Malachi 3:14-15
You have said, 'It is vain to serve God;' and 'What profit is it that we have followed his instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?
Joshua 24:15
If it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD."
Jeremiah 12:15
It shall happen, after that I have plucked them up, I will return and have compassion on them; and I will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.
Matthew 25:46
These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."
Isaiah 3:10-11
Tell the righteous "Good." For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
Daniel 3:17-26
If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.
Daniel 12:1-3
"At that time shall Michael arise, the great prince who watches over the children of your people. And there shall be a time of distress unparalleled since the beginning of the nation until that time. But at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone who shall be found written in the book.
Joel 2:14
Who knows? He may turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meal offering and a drink offering to the LORD, your God.
Zechariah 1:6
But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did not they overtake your fathers? "Then they repented and said, 'Just as the LORD of hosts determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.'"
Malachi 1:4
Whereas Edom says, "We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places;" thus says the LORD of hosts, "They shall build, but I will throw down; and men will call them 'The Wicked Land,' even the people against whom the LORD shows wrath forever."
John 12:26
If anyone serves me, let him follow me; and where I am, there will my servant also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
Acts 16:17
She followed Paul and us, shouting, "These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to you the way of salvation."
Acts 27:23
For there stood by me this night an angel, belonging to the God whose I am and whom I serve,
Romans 1:9
For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you
Romans 2:5-6
But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are storing up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
1 Thessalonians 1:9
For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you; and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God,
2 Thessalonians 1:5-10
This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of the Kingdom of God, for which you also suffer.
Job 6:29
Please return. Let there be no injustice. Yes, return again. My cause is righteous.
Job 17:10
But as for you all, come on now again; I shall not find a wise man among you.