Malachi 3:18

Once again my people will see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between the person who serves God and the person who does not.”

Open English Bible (US)

In The King James Version

Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.

In Context

17“They will be mine,” says the Lord of hosts, “my special possession on that day that I am preparing. I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.

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Cross References

Psalms 58:10The sight of such vengeance will gladden the righteous; their feet they will wash in the blood of the wicked.

Zechariah 1:6But did not my words and my statutes with which I charged my servants the prophets overtake your ancestors? And they repented and said, ‘Just as the Lord of hosts planned to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our deeds, so he has dealt with us.’”

Matthew Henry on Malachi 3:14-18

Wicked Conversation Reproved; Evil Maxims of Sinners; Pious Converse Commended; Promises to the Godly. ( b. c. 400.) 13 Your words have been stout against me, saith the Lord . Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee? 14 Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts? 15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered. 16 Then… Read the whole commentary →

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