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Malachi 3

Mal. 3:6 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For I am the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
, I change
shanah (Hebrew #8138)
to fold, i.e. duplicate (literally or figuratively); by implication, to transmute (transitive or intransitive)
KJV usage: do (speak, strike) again, alter, double, (be given to) change, disguise, (be) diverse, pervert, prefer, repeat, return, do the second time.
Pronounce: shaw-naw'
Origin: a primitive root
not; thereforeb ye sons
ben (Hebrew #1121)
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like 1, 251, etc.))
KJV usage: + afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-)ite, (anoint-)ed one, appointed to, (+) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-)ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, + (young) bullock, + (young) calf, X came up in, child, colt, X common, X corn, daughter, X of first, + firstborn, foal, + very fruitful, + postage, X in, + kid, + lamb, (+) man, meet, + mighty, + nephew, old, (+) people, + rebel, + robber, X servant born, X soldier, son, + spark, + steward, + stranger, X surely, them of, + tumultuous one, + valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one), youth.
Pronounce: bane
Origin: from {SI 11129}1129{/SI}
of Jacob
Ya`aqob (Hebrew #3290)
heel-catcher (i.e. supplanter); Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch
KJV usage: Jacob.
Pronounce: yah-ak-obe'
Origin: from 6117
are not consumed
kalah (Hebrew #3615)
to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume)
KJV usage: accomplish, cease, consume (away), determine, destroy (utterly), be (when ... were) done, (be an) end (of), expire, (cause to) fail, faint, finish, fulfil, X fully, X have, leave (off), long, bring to pass, wholly reap, make clean riddance, spend, quite take away, waste.
Pronounce: kaw-law'
Origin: a primitive root
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I am.
Gen. 15:7,18• 7And he said to him, I am Jehovah who brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give thee this land to possess it.
18On the same day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates;
(Gen. 15:7,18)
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Gen. 22:16• 16and said, By myself I swear, saith Jehovah, that, because thou hast done this, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, (Gen. 22:16)
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Ex. 3:14‑15• 14And God said to Moses, I AM THAT I AM. And he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel: I AM hath sent me unto you.
15And God said moreover to Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel: Jehovah, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you. This is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.
(Ex. 3:14‑15)
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Neh. 9:7‑8• 7Thou art the Same, Jehovah Elohim, who didst choose Abram and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham;
8and foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest the covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites,--to give it to his seed; and thou hast performed thy words, for thou art righteous.
(Neh. 9:7‑8)
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Isa. 41:13• 13For I, Jehovah, thy God, hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee. (Isa. 41:13)
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Isa. 42:5‑8• 5Thus saith *God, Jehovah, he that created the heavens and stretched them out, he that spread forth the earth and its productions, he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
6I, Jehovah, have called thee in righteousness, and will take hold of thy hand; and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the nations,
7to open the blind eyes, to bring forth the prisoner from the prison, them that sit in darkness out of the house of restraint.
8I am Jehovah, that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
(Isa. 42:5‑8)
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Isa. 43:11‑12• 11I, I am Jehovah; and besides me there is no saviour.
12It is I that have declared, and have saved, and have shewed, when there was no strange god among you; and ye are my witnesses, saith Jehovah, that I am *God.
(Isa. 43:11‑12)
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Isa. 44:6• 6Thus saith Jehovah, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Jehovah of hosts: I am the first, and I am the last, and beside me there is no God. (Isa. 44:6)
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Isa. 45:5‑8• 5I am Jehovah, and there is none else; there is no God beside me: I girded thee, and thou hast not known me;
6--that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the going down, that there is none beside me. I am Jehovah, and there is none else;
7forming the light and creating darkness, making peace and creating evil: I, Jehovah, do all these things.
8Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness; let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and with it let righteousness spring up. I, Jehovah, have created it.
(Isa. 45:5‑8)
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Jer. 32:27• 27Behold, I am Jehovah, the God of all flesh: is there anything too hard for me? (Jer. 32:27)
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Hos. 11:9• 9I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not again destroy Ephraim; for I am *God, and not man,--the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not come in anger. (Hos. 11:9)
I change not.
therefore.
Psa. 78:38,57• 38But he was merciful: he forgave the iniquity, and destroyed them not; but many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his fury:
57And they drew back and dealt treacherously like their fathers: they turned like a deceitful bow.
(Psa. 78:38,57)
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Psa. 103:17• 17But the loving-kindness of Jehovah is from everlasting and to everlasting, upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children, (Psa. 103:17)
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Psa. 105:7‑10• 7He, Jehovah, is our God; his judgments are in all the earth.
8He is ever mindful of his covenant,--the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,--
9Which he made with Abraham, and of his oath unto Isaac;
10And he confirmed it unto Jacob for a statute, unto Israel for an everlasting covenant,
(Psa. 105:7‑10)
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Isa. 40:28‑31• 28Dost thou not know, hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not nor tireth? There is no searching of his understanding.
29He giveth power to the faint; and to him that hath no might he increaseth strength.
30Even the youths shall faint and shall tire, and the young men shall stumble and fall;
31but they that wait upon Jehovah shall renew their strength: they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not tire; they shall walk, and not faint.
(Isa. 40:28‑31)
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Lam. 3:22‑23• 22It is of Jehovah's loving-kindness we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not;
23they are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
(Lam. 3:22‑23)
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Rom. 5:10• 10For if, being enemies, we have been reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much rather, having been reconciled, we shall be saved in the power of his life. (Rom. 5:10)
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Rom. 8:28‑32• 28But we *do* know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to purpose.
29Because whom he has foreknown, he has also predestinated to be conformed to the image of his Son, so that he should be the firstborn among many brethren.
30But whom he has predestinated, these also he has called; and whom he has called, these also he has justified; but whom he has justified, these also he has glorified.
31What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who against us?
32He who, yea, has not spared his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him grant us all things?
(Rom. 8:28‑32)
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Rom. 11:28‑29• 28As regards the glad tidings, they are enemies on your account; but as regards election, beloved on account of the fathers.
29For the gifts and the calling of God are not subject to repentance.
(Rom. 11:28‑29)
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Phil. 1:6• 6having confidence of this very thing, that he who has begun in you a good work will complete it unto Jesus Christ's day: (Phil. 1:6)
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2 Thess. 2:13‑14• 13But we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, that God has chosen you from the beginning to salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
14whereto he has called you by our glad tidings, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
(2 Thess. 2:13‑14)
 Because He is immutable in His holiness, He must be a “swift witness” against all sin and iniquity; and because His purposes of grace and blessing are unalterable, His people are not consumed. (Malachi 3 by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For I Jehovah change not, and ye, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.