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 comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up," says the LORD of hosts, "that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

"Woe to you who desire the day of the LORD. Why do you long for the day of the LORD? It is darkness, and not light.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism he said to them, "You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said, "The first." Jesus said to them, "Truly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into the Kingdom of God before you.

"But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites. Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you do not enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter."

While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut.

and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, "Look, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.

Even now the axe also lies at the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bring forth good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire."

Blessed is he who is not offended by me."

Now as he spoke, a Pharisee asked him to dine with him. He went in, and sat at the table.

Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be able to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man."

They said, "Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then does he say, 'I have come down out of heaven?'"

You do the works of your father." They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God."

Jesus said, "I came into this world for judgment, that those who do not see may see; and that those who see may become blind."

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

Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.

but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, did not arrive at that law.

Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

A man who disregards the Law of Moses dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.

See that you do not refuse him who speaks. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,

For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who do not believe, "The stone which the builders rejected, has become the chief cornerstone,"

and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father; to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

for the great day of their wrath has 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 purged the blood of Jerusalem from its midst, by the spirit of justice, and by the spirit of burning.

I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, 'It is my people;' and they will say, 'The LORD is my God.'"

"And even now the axe lies at the root of the trees. Therefore, every tree that does not bring forth good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.

each man's work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man's work is.

I will kill her children with Death, and all the churches will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

Like fullers'

I will tell of the decree. The LORD said to me, "You are my son. Today I have become your father.

"Come now, and let us reason together," says the LORD: "Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me," says the Lord GOD.

His clothing became glistening, exceedingly white, such as no launderer on earth can whiten them.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and freed us from our sins by his blood;

So I said to him, "My lord, you know." He said to me, "These are the ones who came out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb's blood.

It was given to her that she would array herself in bright, pure, fine linen: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.

General references

The men of Beth Shemesh said, "Who is able to stand before the LORD, this holy God? To whom shall he go up from us?"

The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but the LORD tests the hearts.