Malachi 3:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap:

Who may abide

For

Revelation 2:23

Like fullers'

Revelation 19:8

General references

1 Samuel 6:20

Proverbs 17:3

Bible References

Who may abide

For behold, the day cometh, burning as a furnace; and all the proud and all that work wickedness shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith Jehovah of hosts, so that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

Woe unto you that desire the day of Jehovah! To what end is the day of Jehovah for you? It shall be darkness and not light:

But seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of vipers, who has forewarned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Which of the two did the will of the father? They say to him, The first. Jesus says to them, Verily I say unto you that the tax-gatherers and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.

But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye shut up the kingdom of the heavens before men; for ye do not enter, nor do ye suffer those that are entering to go in.

But as they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and the ones that were ready went in with him to the wedding feast, and the door was shut.

And Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary his mother, Lo, this child is set for the fall and rising up of many in Israel, and for a sign spoken against;

And already also the axe is applied to the root of the trees; every tree therefore not producing good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.

and blessed is whosoever shall not be offended in me.

But as he spoke, a certain Pharisee asked him that he would dine with him; and entering in he placed himself at table.

Watch therefore, praying at every season, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things which are about to come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

And they said, Is not this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we have known? how then does he say, I am come down out of heaven?

Ye do the works of your father. They said therefore to him, We are not born of fornication; we have one father, God.

And Jesus said, For judgment am I come into this world, that they which see not may see, and they which see may become blind.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they had not had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain those who announced beforehand concerning the coming of the Just One, of whom ye have now become deliverers up and murderers!

But Israel, pursuing after a law of righteousness, has not attained to that law.

Thus, then, in the present time also there has been a remnant according to election of grace.

Any one that has disregarded Moses' law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses:

See that ye refuse not him that speaks. For if those did not escape who had refused him who uttered the oracles on earth, much more we who turn away from him who does so from heaven:

To you therefore who believe is the preciousness; but to the disobedient, the stone which the builders cast away as worthless, this is become head of the corner,

and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father: to him be the glory and the might to the ages of ages. Amen.

because the great day of his wrath is come, and who is able to stand?

For

when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have scoured out the blood of Jerusalem from its midst, by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.

And I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will answer them: I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.

And already the axe is applied to the root of the trees; every tree therefore not producing good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.

the work of each shall be made manifest; for the day shall declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire shall try the work of each what it is.

and her children will I kill with death; and all the assemblies shall know that I am he that searches the reins and the hearts; and I will give to you each according to your works.

Like fullers'

I will declare the decree: Jehovah hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; I this day have begotten thee.

Come now, let us reason together, saith Jehovah: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much potash, thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord Jehovah.

and his garments became shining, exceeding white as snow, such as fuller on earth could not whiten them.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and has washed us from our sins in his blood,

And I said to him, My lord, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they who come out of the great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and have made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

And it was given to her that she should be clothed in fine linen, bright and pure; for the fine linen is the righteousnesses of the saints.

General references

And the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to stand before Jehovah, this holy God? and to whom shall he go up from us?

The fining-pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but Jehovah trieth the hearts.