Malachi 3:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.

I will come

Hebrews 10:30

James 5:8

Jude 1:14

A swift

Matthew 23:14

The sorcerers

Revelation 22:15

Against those

James 5:4

General references

1 Corinthians 6:8

Bible References

I will come

For we know him who said, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay." And again, "The Lord will judge his people."

You too be patient; strengthen your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is near.

It was also about these men that Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, saying, "Behold, the Lord came with many thousands of his holy ones,

A swift

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The sorcerers

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor sexual perverts,

Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious: immorality, impurity, lewdness,

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled; for God will judge the immoral and adulterous.

But as for the cowardly, the unbelieving, the immoral, as for murderers, fornicators, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their lot will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."

Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the immoral persons and the murderers and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

Against those

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out against you; and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.

General references

Instead, you yourselves defraud and do wrong, and you even do this to your brethren.