The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Malachi 2:3 (Lex)

3 Look! I am going to rebuke your offspring, and I will scatter offal on your faces, the offal of your religious feasts,
and you will be carried to it.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Malachi 2:4 (Lex)

4 “Then you will know that I have sent to you this command, that my covenant with Levi continues,” says Yahweh of hosts.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Malachi 2:5 (Lex)

5 “My covenant with him was one of life and peace, and I gave them to him. This required reverence, and he revered me
and stood in awe before my name.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Malachi 2:6 (NLT)

6 They passed on to the people the truth of the instructions they received from me. They did not lie or cheat;
they walked with me, living good and righteous lives, and they turned many from lives of sin.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Malachi 2:7 (NLT)

7 “The words of a priest’s lips should preserve knowledge of God, and people should go to him for instruction, for the priest
is the messenger of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Malachi 2:8 (NLT)

8 But you priests have left God’s paths. Your instructions have caused many to stumble into sin. You have corrupted the covenant
I made with the Levites,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Malachi 2:9 (NLT)

9 “So I have made you despised and humiliated in the eyes of all the people. For you have not obeyed me but have shown
favoritism in the way you carry out my instructions.”

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Malachi 2:10 (NLT)

10 Are we not all children of the same Father? Are we not all created by the same God? Then why do we betray each other,
violating the covenant of our ancestors?

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Malachi 2:11 (NKJV)

11 Judah has dealt treacherously,
And an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem,
For Judah has profaned
The Lord’s holy institution which He loves:
He has married the daughter of a foreign god.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Malachi 2:12 (NKJV)

12 May the Lord cut off from the tents of Jacob
The man who does this, being awake and aware,
Yet who brings an offering to the Lord of hosts!

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Malachi 2:13 (NKJV)

13 And this is the second thing you do:
You cover the altar of the Lord with tears,
With weeping and crying;
So He does not regard the offering anymore,
Nor receive it with goodwill from your hands.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Malachi 2:14 (NKJV)

14 Yet you say, “For what reason?”
Because the Lord has been witness
Between you and the wife of your youth,
With whom you have dealt treacherously;
Yet she is your companion
And your wife by covenant.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Malachi 2:15 (NKJV)

15 But did He not make them one,
Having a remnant of the Spirit?
And why one?
He seeks godly offspring.
Therefore take heed to your spirit,
And let none deal treacherously with the wife of his youth.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Malachi 2:16 (New Catholic Bible)

16 For I hate divorce,
says the Lord, the God of Israel,
as well as covering one’s garment with injustice,
says the Lord of hosts.
Therefore, have respect for your own life,
and do not be unfaithful.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Malachi 2:17 (New Catholic Bible)

17 You have wearied the Lord with your words.
Yet you ask, “How have we wearied him?”
By asserting, “All who do evil
are good in the eyes of the Lord;
indeed, he delights in them.”
Or by asking,
“Where is the God of justice?”

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Malachi 3:1 (NIV)

‘I will send my messenger, who will prepare the way before me. Then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to his temple;
the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, will come,’ says the Lord Almighty.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Malachi 3:2 (NIV)

2 But who can endure the day of his coming? Who can stand when he appears? For he will be like a refiner’s fire or a launderer’s soap.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Malachi 3:3 (NIV)

3 He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; he will purify the Levites and refine them like gold and silver.
Then the Lord will have men who will bring offerings in righteousness,

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Malachi 3:4 (NIV)

4 and the offerings of Judah and Jerusalem will be acceptable to the Lord, as in days gone by, as in former years.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Malachi 3:5 (NIV)

5 ‘So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud labourers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners among you of justice, but do not
fear me,’ says the Lord Almighty