Malachi 3:18

Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn't serve him.

New Heart English Bible

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

17They shall be mine," says the 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.

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Cross References

Exodus 11:7But against any of the children of Israel a dog won't even bark or move its tongue, against man or animal; that you may know that the Lord makes a distinction between the Egyptians and Israel.

Job 6:29Please return.Let there be no injustice.Yes, return again.My cause is righteous.

Psalms 58:10The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance.He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked;

Jeremiah 12:15It shall happen, after that I have plucked them up, I will return and have compassion on them; and I will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.

Daniel 12:1"At that time shall Michael arise, the great prince who watches over the children of your people. And there shall be a time of distress unparalleled since the beginning of the nation until that time. But at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone who shall be found written in the book.

Zechariah 1:6But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did not they overtake your fathers?"Then they repented and said, 'Just as the Lord of hosts determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, 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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