Malachi 3:2-9
English Standard Version
Chapter 3
2But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner 's fire and like fullers ' soap. 3He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the Lord. 4Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the Lord as in the days of old and as in former years.
6"For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.
7From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. But you say, ‘How shall we return?’
8Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In your tithes and contributions.
9You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you.
