Malachi 3:7-12 - Robbing God

⁷ Like your fathers before you, you have turned away from my laws and have not obeyed them. Return to me and I will return to you, said Jehovah of Hosts. But you ask, 'how will we return to you?'

⁸ I ask you: 'will you rob and defraud God? Of course not, yet you are robbing and defrauding me!' 'How have we robbed and defrauded?' You ask. 'In the matter of tithes and offerings.' ⁹ A curse is on all of you because the whole nation is cheating me. ¹⁰ Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse. Test me, said Jehovah of Hosts, and see if I will open the windows of heaven and pour out showers of blessing upon you until there is no more want. ¹¹ I will not let insects destroy your crops. Your grapevines will produce abundantly. ¹² All the nations will pronounce you happy because your land will be a good place to live.