Malachi 3 (JND) - Bible Truth Library

Mal. 4:1• ¹For behold, the day cometh, burning as a furnace; and all the proud and all that work wickedness shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith Jehovah of hosts, so that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. (Mal. 4:1)

Amos 5:18‑20• ¹⁸Woe unto you that desire the day of Jehovah! To what end is the day of Jehovah for you? It shall be darkness and not light:
¹⁹as if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
²⁰Shall not the day of Jehovah be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it? (Amos 5:18‑20)

Matt. 3:7‑12• ⁷But seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of vipers, who has forewarned you to flee from the coming wrath?
⁸Produce therefore fruit worthy of repentance.
⁹And do not think to say within yourselves, We have Abraham for our father; for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.
¹⁰And already the axe is applied to the root of the trees; every tree therefore not producing good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.
¹¹*I* indeed baptise you with water to repentance, but he that comes after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not fit to bear; *he* shall baptise you with the Holy Spirit and fire;
¹²whose winnowing fan is in his hand, and he shall thoroughly purge his threshing-floor, and shall gather his wheat into the garner, but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable. (Matt. 3:7‑12)

Matt. 21:31‑44• ³¹Which of the two did the will of the father? They say to him, The first. Jesus says to them, Verily I say unto you that the tax-gatherers and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.
³²For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not; but the tax-gatherers and the harlots believed him; but *ye* when ye saw it repented not yourselves afterwards to believe him.
³³Hear another parable: There was a householder who planted a vineyard, and made a fence round it, and dug a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and left the country.
³⁴But when the time of fruit drew near, he sent his bondmen to the husbandmen to receive his fruits.
³⁵And the husbandmen took his bondmen, and beat one, killed another, and stoned another.
³⁶Again he sent other bondmen more than the first, and they did to them in like manner.
³⁷And at last he sent to them his son, saying, They will have respect for my son.
³⁸But the husbandmen, seeing the son, said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him and possess his inheritance.
³⁹And they took him, and cast him forth out of the vineyard, and killed him.
⁴⁰When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what shall he do to those husbandmen?
⁴¹They say to him, He will miserably destroy those evil men, and let out the vineyard to other husbandmen, who shall render him the fruits in their seasons.
⁴²Jesus says to them, Have ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which they that builded rejected, this has become the corner-stone: this is of the Lord, and it is wonderful in our eyes?
⁴³Therefore I say to you, that the kingdom of God shall be taken from you and shall be given to a nation producing the fruits of it.
⁴⁴And he that falls on this stone shall be broken, but on whomsoever it shall fall, it shall grind him to powder. (Matt. 21:31‑44)

Matt. 23:13‑35• ¹³But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye shut up the kingdom of the heavens before men; for *ye* do not enter, nor do ye suffer those that are entering to go in.
¹⁴(Verse 14 is omitted in this translation.)
¹⁵Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye compass the sea and the dry land to make one proselyte, and when he is become such, ye make him twofold more the son of hell than yourselves.
¹⁶Woe to you, blind guides, who say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor.
¹⁷Fools and blind, for which is greater, the gold, or the temple which sanctifies the gold?
¹⁸And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gift that is upon it is a debtor.
¹⁹Fools and blind ones, for which is greater, the gift, or the altar which sanctifies the gift?
²⁰He therefore that swears by the altar swears by it and by all things that are upon it.
²¹And he that swears by the temple swears by it and by him that dwells in it.
²²And he that swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by him that sits upon it.
²³Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye pay tithes of mint and anise and cummin, and ye have left aside the weightier matters of the law, judgment and mercy and faith: these ye ought to have done and not have left those aside.
²⁴Blind guides, who strain out the gnat, but drink down the camel.
²⁵Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but within they are full of rapine and intemperance.
²⁶Blind Pharisee, make clean first the inside of the cup and of the dish, that their outside also may become clean.
²⁷Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye are like whited sepulchres, which appear beautiful outwardly, but within are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness.
²⁸Thus also *ye*, outwardly ye appear righteous to men, but within are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
²⁹Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets and adorn the tombs of the just,
³⁰and ye say, If we had been in the days of our fathers we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
³¹So that ye bear witness of yourselves that ye are sons of those who slew the prophets:
³²and *ye*, fill ye up the measure of your fathers.
³³Serpents, offspring of vipers, how should ye escape the judgment of hell?
³⁴Therefore, behold, *I* send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; and some of them ye will kill and crucify, and some of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will persecute from city to city;
³⁵so that all righteous blood shed upon the earth should come upon *you*, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. (Matt. 23:13‑35)

Matt. 25:10• ¹⁰But as they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and the ones that were ready went in with him to the wedding feast, and the door was shut. (Matt. 25:10)

Luke 2:34• ³⁴And Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary his mother, Lo, this child is set for the fall and rising up of many in Israel, and for a sign spoken against; (Luke 2:34)

Luke 3:9,17• ⁹And already also the axe is applied to the root of the trees; every tree therefore not producing good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.
¹⁷whose winnowing-fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his threshing-floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner, but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable. (Luke 3:9,17)

Luke 7:23• ²³and blessed is whosoever shall not be offended in me. (Luke 7:23)

Luke 11:37‑47,52‑54• ³⁷But as he spoke, a certain Pharisee asked him that he would dine with him; and entering in he placed himself at table.
³⁸But the Pharisee seeing it wondered that he had not first washed before dinner.
³⁹But the Lord said to him, Now do ye Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but your inward parts are full of plunder and wickedness.
⁴⁰Fools, has not he who has made the outside made the inside also?
⁴¹But rather give alms of what ye have, and behold, all things are clean to you.
⁴²But woe unto you, Pharisees, for ye pay tithes of mint and rue and every herb, and pass by the judgment and the love of God: these ye ought to have done, and not have left those aside.
⁴³Woe unto you, Pharisees, for ye love the first seat in the synagogues and salutations in the market-places.
⁴⁴Woe unto you, for ye are as the sepulchres which appear not, and the men walking over them do not know it.
⁴⁵And one of the doctors of the law answering says to him, Teacher, in saying these things thou insultest us also.
⁴⁶And he said, To you also woe, doctors of the law, for ye lay upon men burdens heavy to bear, and yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.
⁴⁷Woe unto you, for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, but your fathers killed them.
⁵²Woe unto you, the doctors of the law, for ye have taken away the key of knowledge; yourselves have not entered in, and those who were entering in ye have hindered.
⁵³And as he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press him urgently, and to make him speak of many things;
⁵⁴watching him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him. (Luke 11:37‑47,52‑54)

Luke 21:36• ³⁶Watch therefore, praying at every season, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things which are about to come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. (Luke 21:36)

John 6:42‑44• ⁴²And they said, Is not this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we have known? how then does *he* say, I am come down out of heaven?
⁴³Jesus therefore answered and said to them, Murmur not among yourselves.
⁴⁴No one can come to me except the Father who has sent me draw him, and I will raise him up in the last day. (John 6:42‑44)

John 8:41‑48,55• ⁴¹Ye do the works of your father. They said therefore to him, We are not born of fornication; we have one father, God.
⁴²Jesus said to them, If God were your father ye would have loved me, for I came forth from God and am come from him; for neither am I come of myself, but *he* has sent me.
⁴³Why do ye not know my speech? Because ye cannot hear my word.
⁴⁴Ye are of the devil, as your father, and ye desire to do the lusts of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks falsehood, he speaks of what is his own; for he is a liar and its father:
⁴⁵and because I speak the truth, ye do not believe me.
⁴⁶Which of you convinces me of sin? If I speak truth, why do ye not believe me?
⁴⁷He that is of God hears the words of God: therefore ye hear them not, because ye are not of God.
⁴⁸The Jews answered and said to him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan and hast a demon?
⁵⁵And ye know him not; but I know him; and if I said, I know him not, I should be like you, a liar. But I know him, and I keep his word. (John 8:41‑48,55)

John 9:39‑41• ³⁹And Jesus said, For judgment am I come into this world, that they which see not may see, and they which see may become blind.
⁴⁰And some of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and they said to him, Are we blind also?
⁴¹Jesus said to them, If ye were blind ye would not have sin; but now ye say, We see, your sin remains. (John 9:39‑41)

John 15:22‑24• ²²If I had not come and spoken to them, they had not had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
²³He that hates me hates also my Father.
²⁴If I had not done among them the works which no other one has done, they had not had sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father. (John 15:22‑24)

Acts 7:52‑54• ⁵²Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain those who announced beforehand concerning the coming of the Just One, of whom *ye* have now become deliverers up and murderers!
⁵³who have received the law as ordained by the ministry of angels, and have not kept it.
⁵⁴And hearing these things they were cut to the heart, and gnashed their teeth against him. (Acts 7:52‑54)

Rom. 9:31‑33• ³¹But Israel, pursuing after a law of righteousness, has not attained to that law.
³²Wherefore? Because it was not on the principle of faith, but as of works. They have stumbled at the stumblingstone,
³³according as it is written, Behold, I place in Zion a stone of stumbling and rock of offence: and he that believes on him shall not be ashamed. (Rom. 9:31‑33)

Rom. 11:5‑10• ⁵Thus, then, in the present time also there has been a remnant according to election of grace.
⁶But if by grace, no longer of works: since otherwise grace is no more grace.
⁷What is it then? What Israel seeks for, that he has not obtained; but the election has obtained, and the rest have been blinded,
⁸according as it is written, God has given to them a spirit of slumber, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear, unto this day.
⁹And David says, Let their table be for a snare, and for a gin, and for a fall-trap, and for a recompense to them:
¹⁰let their eyes be darkened not to see, and bow down their back alway. (Rom. 11:5‑10)

Heb. 10:28‑29• ²⁸Any one that has disregarded Moses' law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses:
²⁹of how much worse punishment, think ye, shall he be judged worthy who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and esteemed the blood of the covenant, whereby he has been sanctified, common, and has insulted the Spirit of grace? (Heb. 10:28‑29)

Heb. 12:25• ²⁵See that ye refuse not him that speaks. For if those did not escape who had refused him who uttered the oracles on earth, much more we who turn away from him who does so from heaven: (Heb. 12:25)

1 Peter 2:7‑8• ⁷To you therefore who believe is the preciousness; but to the disobedient, the stone which the builders cast away as worthless, this is become head of the corner,
⁸and a stone of stumbling and rock of offence; who stumble at the word, being disobedient to which also they have been appointed. (1 Peter 2:7‑8)

Rev. 1:6‑7• ⁶and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father: to him be the glory and the might to the ages of ages. Amen.
⁷Behold, he comes with the clouds, and every eye shall see him, and they which have pierced him, and all the tribes of the land shall wail because of him. Yea. Amen. (Rev. 1:6‑7)

Rev. 6:17• ¹⁷because the great day of his wrath is come, and who is able to stand? (Rev. 6:17)

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