Malachi 3:5

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Malachi 3:5

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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

A swift

The sorcerers

Against those

General references

Bible References

I will come

Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, In what have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that does evil pleases the LORD, and he delights in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?

Our God shall come and shall not keep silence; a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

before the LORD; for he has come, for he has come to judge the earth; he shall judge the world with righteousness and the peoples with his truth.

before the LORD; for he has come to judge the earth; with righteousness he shall judge the world and the peoples with equity.

Therefore thus hath the Lord GOD said unto them; Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and between the lean sheep,

For we know who he is that has said, Vengeance belongs to me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.

Be ye also patient and confirm your hearts, for the coming of the Lord draws near.

And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his saints

A swift

Yet ye say, Why? Because the LORD has been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously; yet she is thy companion and the wife of thy covenant.

Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee; I am God, even thy God.

Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee; O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me,

because they have committed villainy in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken a word falsely in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know and am a witness, saith the LORD.

Hear, all ye peoples; hearken, O earth, and all that is therein: and the Lord GOD, the Lord from his holy temple shall be a witness against you.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses and for a pretence make long prayer; therefore, ye shall receive the greater judgment.

The sorcerers

And the person that turns after spiritists or after diviners to prostitute themselves after them, I will even set my face against that person and will cut him off from among his people.

Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him innocent that takes his name in vain.

Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not,

Behold, the princes of Israel, each one according to their power, were in thee to shed blood.

Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole earth; for every one that steals (as it is written on one side of the roll) shall be destroyed; and every one that swears (as it is written on the other side of the roll) shall be destroyed.

Know ye not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor effeminate nor homosexuals

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

Let marriage be honourable in all and the bed undefiled; but the fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

But the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

But outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the fornicators and the murderers and the idolaters and whosoever loves and makes a lie.

Against those

Thou shalt neither mistreat a stranger nor oppress him; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him. Do not detain the wages of the work of the hired man in thy house until the morning.

Thou shalt not do violence unto a hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he is of thy brethren or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates.

Cursed is he that twists the rights of the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither destroy the destitute in judgment:

Do not remove the old landmark, and do not enter into the inheritance of the fatherless:

Woe unto him that builds his house and not in righteousness and his chambers and not in judgment, using his neighbour's service without wages and not giving him the wages of his work!

Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped your fields (which you have kept back by fraud) cries out; and the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of the hosts.

General references

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Thou shalt not pervert the rights of thy poor in his cause.

Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, contaminating thyself with her.

and he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that brings the curse, and the water that brings the curse shall enter into her as bitter.

Thou shalt not give false testimony against thy neighbour.

Thou shalt not do violence unto a hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he is of thy brethren or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates.

Cursed is he that twists the rights of the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

For it is a fire that consumes unto hell and would root out all my increase.

They slay the widow and the stranger and murder the fatherless.

Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

But ye do wrong and defraud and do this to your brothers.