Malachi 3:13-18 - The Righteous And The Wicked
13 Your words have been stout against me, says LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken against thee?
14 Ye have said, It is vain to serve God, and what profit is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked mournfully before LORD of hosts? 15 And now we call the proud happy. Yea, those who work wickedness are built up. Yea, they challenge God, and escape.
16 Then those who feared LORD spoke one with another, and LORD hearkened, and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before him, for those who feared LORD, and who thought upon his name. 17 And they shall be mine, says LORD of hosts, my own possession, in the day that I make. And I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him. 18 Then ye shall return and discern between the righteous man and the wicked man, between him who serves God and him who does not serve him.