If you want to accept God's
offer in his Son, say a prayer like this:
Jesus, I confess that you are not only the
most important person in history, but you are the Creator and Savior of the
world. Lord Jesus, I need you. I have done wrong. Please forgive me of my sins
and come into my life. I ask you not just to be part of my life, but to guide me
to live according to the words I read in the Bible. Thank you for your mercy and
forgiveness. I am now committed to be your follower.
Amen.
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The Book of Malachi
Chapter 1
001:001 The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel
by Malachi.
001:002 I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say,
Wherein hast
thou loved us? Was
not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the
LORD:
yet I loved Jacob,
001:003 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his
heritage
waste for the dragons of
the wilderness.
001:004 Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we
will return
and build the desolate
places; thus saith the LORD of
hosts,
They shall build, but I
will throw down; and they shall
call
them, The border of
wickedness, and, The people against
whom
the LORD hath indignation for
ever.
001:005 And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The
LORD will be
magnified from the
border of Israel.
001:006 A son honoureth his father, and a servant his
master: if then
I be a father,
where is mine honour? and if I be a
master,
where is my fear? saith
the LORD of hosts unto you, O
priests,
that despise my name. And
ye say, Wherein have we despised
thy
name?
001:007 Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye
say, Wherein
have we polluted
thee? In that ye say, The table of the
LORD
is contemptible.
001:008 And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it
not evil? and
if ye offer the lame
and sick, is it not evil? offer it
now
unto thy governor; will he be
pleased with thee, or accept thy
person? saith the LORD of hosts.
001:009 And now, I pray you, beseech God that he will be
gracious unto
us: this hath been
by your means: will he regard your
persons?
saith the LORD of
hosts.
001:010 Who is there even among you that would shut the
doors for
nought? neither do ye
kindle fire on mine altar for nought.
I
have no pleasure in you, saith
the LORD of hosts, neither will
I
accept an offering at your hand.
001:011 For from the rising of the sun even unto the
going down of the
same my name
shall be great among the Gentiles; and in
every
place incense shall be
offered unto my name, and a pure
offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen,
saith
the LORD of hosts.
001:012 But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The
table of the LORD
is polluted; and
the fruit thereof, even his meat,
is
contemptible.
001:013 Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it!
and ye have
snuffed at it, saith
the LORD of hosts; and ye brought
that
which was torn, and the lame,
and the sick; thus ye brought an
offering: should I accept this of your hand? saith the LORD.
001:014 But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his
flock a male,
and voweth, and
sacrificeth unto the LORD a corrupt thing:
for
I am a great King, saith the
LORD of hosts, and my name is
dreadful among the heathen.
002:001 And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.
002:002 If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it
to heart, to
give glory unto my
name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will
even
send a curse upon you, and I
will curse your blessings: yea, I
have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.
002:003 Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread
dung upon your
faces, even the
dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall
take
you away with it.
002:004 And ye shall know that I have sent this
commandment unto you,
that my
covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.
002:005 My covenant was with him of life and peace; and
I gave them to
him for the fear
wherewith he feared me, and was afraid
before
my name.
002:006 The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity
was not found
in his lips: he
walked with me in peace and equity, and
did
turn many away from
iniquity.
002:007 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and
they should
seek the law at his
mouth: for he is the messenger of the
LORD
of hosts.
002:008 But ye are departed out of the way; ye have
caused many to
stumble at the law;
ye have corrupted the covenant of
Levi,
saith the LORD of hosts.
002:009 Therefore have I also made you contemptible and
base before
all the people,
according as ye have not kept my ways,
but
have been partial in the
law.
002:010 Have we not all one father? hath not one God
created us? why
do we deal
treacherously every man against his brother,
by
profaning the covenant of our
fathers?
002:011 Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an
abomination is
committed in Israel
and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath
profaned
the holiness of the LORD
which he loved, and hath married
the
daughter of a strange god.
002:012 The LORD will cut off the man that doeth this,
the master and
the scholar, out of
the tabernacles of Jacob, and him
that
offereth an offering unto the
LORD of hosts.
002:013 And this have ye done again, covering the altar
of the LORD
with tears, with
weeping, and with crying out, insomuch
that
he regardeth not the offering
any more, or receiveth it with
good will at your hand.
002:014 Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath
been witness
between thee and the
wife of thy youth, against whom thou
hast
dealt treacherously: yet is
she thy companion, and the wife of
thy covenant.
002:015 And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue
of the spirit.
And wherefore one?
That he might seek a godly seed.
Therefore
take heed to your
spirit, and let none deal
treacherously
against the wife of
his youth.
002:016 For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he
hateth putting
away: for one
covereth violence with his garment, saith
the
LORD of hosts: therefore take
heed to your spirit, that ye
deal
not treacherously.
002:017 Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye
say, Wherein
have we wearied him?
When ye say, Every one that doeth evil
is
good in the sight of the LORD,
and he delighteth in them; or,
Where is the God of judgment?
003:001 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall
prepare the way
before me: and the
LORD, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come
to
his temple, even the messenger
of the covenant, whom ye
delight
in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.
003:002 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who
shall stand
when he appeareth? for
he is like a refiner's fire, and
like
fullers' soap:
003:003 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of
silver: and he
shall purify the
sons of Levi, and purge them as gold
and
silver, that they may offer
unto the LORD an offering in
righteousness.
003:004 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem
be pleasant
unto the LORD, as in
the days of old, and as in former years.
003:005 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I
will be a swift
witness against
the sorcerers, and against the adulterers,
and
against false swearers, and
against those that oppress the
hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and
that
turn aside the stranger from
his right, and fear not me, saith
the LORD of hosts.
003:006 For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye
sons of Jacob
are not
consumed.
003:007 Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone
away from mine
ordinances, and
have not kept them. Return unto me, and I
will
return unto you, saith the
LORD of hosts. But ye said,
Wherein
shall we return?
003:008 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But
ye say, Wherein
have we robbed
thee? In tithes and offerings.
003:009 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed
me, even this
whole nation.
003:010 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse,
that there may be
meat in mine
house, and prove me now herewith, saith the
LORD
of hosts, if I will not open
you the windows of heaven, and
pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room
enough
to receive it.
003:011 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes,
and he shall
not destroy the
fruits of your ground; neither shall your
vine
cast her fruit before the
time in the field, saith the LORD
of
hosts.
003:012 And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye
shall be a
delightsome land, saith
the LORD of hosts.
003:013 Your words have been stout against me, saith the
LORD. Yet ye
say, What have we
spoken so much against thee?
003:014 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?
003:015 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that
work
wickedness are set up; yea,
they that tempt God are even
delivered.
003:016 Then they that feared the LORD spake often one
to another: and
the LORD
hearkened, and heard it, and a book of
remembrance
was written before him
for them that feared the LORD, and
that
thought upon his name.
003:017 And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts,
in that day
when I make up my
jewels; and I will spare them, as a
man
spareth his own son that
serveth him.
003:018 Then shall ye return, and discern between the
righteous and
the wicked, between
him that serveth God and him that
serveth
him not.
004:001 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as
an oven; and
all the proud, yea,
and all that do wickedly, shall be
stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith
the
LORD of hosts, that it shall
leave them neither root nor
branch.
004:002 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of
righteousness
arise with healing
in his wings; and ye shall go forth,
and
grow up as calves of the
stall.
004:003 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they
shall be ashes
under the soles of
your feet in the day that I shall do
this,
saith the LORD of hosts.
004:004 Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I
commanded
unto him in Horeb for
all Israel, with the statutes and
judgments.
004:005 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet
before the coming
of the great and
dreadful day of the LORD:
004:006 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to
the children,
and the heart of the
children to their fathers, lest I
come
and smite the earth with a
curse.