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Malachi 3:18
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So you will again see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him.
Then shall yee returne and discerne betweene the righteous and the wicked, betweene him that serueth God, and him that serueth him not.
Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
Then once more you shall see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him.
So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve Him.
You will again see the difference between good and evil people, between those who serve God and those who don't.
Then you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between the one who serves God and the one who does not serve Him.
Then shall you returne, and discerne betweene the righteous and wicked, betweene him that serueth God, and him that serueth him not.
So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve Him.
So you will return and see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve Him.
So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not."
Then everyone will once again see the difference between those who obey me by doing right and those who reject me by doing wrong.
Then once again you will see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between the person who serves God and one that doesn't serve him. For the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the proud and evildoers will be stubble; the day that is coming will set them ablaze," says Adonai -Tzva'ot, "and leave them neither root nor branch. But to you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings; and you will break out leaping, like calves released from the stall. You will trample the wicked, they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day when I take action," says Adonai -Tzva'ot. "Remember the Torah of Moshe my servant, which I enjoined on him at Horev, laws and rulings for all Isra'el. Look, I will send to you Eliyahu the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible Day of Adonai . He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to their fathers; otherwise I will come and strike the land with complete destruction." [Look, I will send to you Eliyahu the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible Day of Adonai .]
And ye shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
You people will come back to me, and you will learn the difference between good and evil. You will learn the difference between someone who follows God and someone who does not.
Then shall you return and see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between those who served God and those who served him not.
Once again my people will see the difference between what happens to the righteous and to the wicked, to the person who serves me and the one who does not."
You will return and see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between the one who serves God and the one who does not serve him.
Then you shall again see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who does not serve Him.
Then shall ye return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
Then you will again see how the upright man is different from the sinner, and the servant of God from him who is not.
Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn't serve him.
Then shall ye again discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth Him not.
Then shall ye returne, and discerne betweene the iust and the wicked, betweene him that serueth God, and him that serueth him not.
Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, and between him that serves God, and him that serves him not.
Then shall ye return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn't serve him.
And ye schulen be conuertid, and ye schulen se, what is bitwixe the iust man and vnpitouse, bitwixe `the seruynge to the Lord and `not seruynge to hym.
Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serves God and him that does not serve him.
Then shall ye return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
Then once more you will see that I make a distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between the one who serves God and the one who does not.
Then you will again see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not."
Then you will again see the difference between those who are right and good, and those who are sinful. You will see the difference between one who serves God and one who does not serve Him.
Then once more you shall see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him.
So shall ye return, and see the difference, between the righteous and the lawless, - between him that serveth God, and him that serveth him not.
And you shall return, and shall see the difference between the just and the wicked: and between him that serveth God, and him that serveth him not.
Then once more you shall distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him.
And ye have turned back and considered, Between the righteous and the wicked, Between the servant of God and him who is not His servant.
Turne you therfore, and considre what difference is betwixte the rightuous and vngodly: betwixte him that serueth God, ad him that serueth him not.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
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shall: Malachi 3:14, Malachi 3:15, Malachi 1:4, Job 6:29, Job 17:10, Jeremiah 12:15, Joel 2:14, Zechariah 1:6
discern: Genesis 18:25, Psalms 58:10, Psalms 58:11, Isaiah 3:10, Isaiah 3:11, Daniel 12:1-3, Matthew 25:46, Romans 2:5, Romans 2:6, 2 Thessalonians 1:5-10
between him: Joshua 24:15, Daniel 3:17-26, John 12:26, Acts 16:17, Acts 27:23, Romans 1:9, Romans 6:16-22, 1 Thessalonians 1:9
Reciprocal: Genesis 7:23 - and Noah Exodus 8:22 - sever Exodus 9:4 - General Exodus 10:23 - but all Exodus 11:7 - a difference Leviticus 11:47 - General Numbers 16:5 - the Lord Deuteronomy 25:1 - General Deuteronomy 29:21 - separate Joshua 22:22 - Israel Job 10:15 - If I be wicked Job 21:19 - he shall Psalms 1:5 - sinners Psalms 6:10 - return Psalms 26:9 - Gather not Psalms 37:6 - light Psalms 94:15 - But Ecclesiastes 2:13 - I saw Ecclesiastes 4:1 - I returned Ecclesiastes 8:13 - it shall Ecclesiastes 9:2 - feareth Ecclesiastes 9:11 - returned Isaiah 25:8 - off Isaiah 32:5 - vile Isaiah 65:13 - my servants shall eat Isaiah 66:14 - the hand Ezekiel 18:30 - every Daniel 2:18 - of the God of heaven Hosea 2:9 - will I Micah 7:9 - he will Malachi 4:1 - and all the Matthew 7:22 - to me Matthew 13:30 - both Matthew 25:32 - he shall separate Luke 16:26 - between Romans 8:19 - the manifestation 1 Corinthians 4:5 - who Revelation 7:3 - the servants Revelation 11:12 - and their
Cross-References
So the LORD God said to the serpent: "Because you have done this, You are cursed more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you shall go, And you shall eat dust All the days of your life.
And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel."
know for certain that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations from before you. But they shall be snares and traps to you, and scourges on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land which the LORD your God has given you.
And he said: "Naked I came from my mother's womb, And naked shall I return there. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; Blessed be the name of the LORD."
Because the hungry eat up his harvest,Taking it even from the thorns, [fn] And a snare snatches their substance. [fn]
Then let thistles grow instead of wheat, And weeds instead of barley." The words of Job are ended.
You turn man to destruction, And say, "Return, O children of men."
Who cover Yourself with light as with a garment, Who stretch out the heavens like a curtain.
Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse; He who guards his soul will be far from them.
And there it was, all overgrown with thorns; Its surface was covered with nettles; Its stone wall was broken down.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Then shall ye return,.... Either the wicked, who will be "converted" z, as some render the word, and will have a different view of things, and change their minds and language; or they that feared the Lord, who at the time before spoken of will have a new turn of thought, and another and clear discerning of persons and things, and better judge of the dispensations of Providence: some that refer this to the resurrection of the dead, and the last judgment, understand it, as Abarbinel does, of the returning of souls to their bodies, when indeed the difference between persons after described will be very discernible; but it seems to refer to the time of Christ's first coming, and Jerusalem's destruction:
and discern between the righteous and the wicked; the difference between such who are really and truly righteous, who are here meant, even such who believe in Christ, and are justified by his righteousness; and those that are wicked, as all by nature are: though sometimes this character designs the more profane and abandoned, and even professors of religion; the difference between these is not always easily discerned; as for the righteous, they are not known and discerned by the world; and by reason of afflictions, temptations, and sins, they are apt to judge wrong of themselves; and sometimes are so left to fall into sin, that they look like others: and there are wicked men under the appearance of righteous men, as were the Scribes and Pharisees in Christ's time; but by the destruction that came upon them, and the preservation of such as believed in Christ, it was discernible who were wicked, and who were righteous; indeed, at the last day, this difference will be more visible; in the bodies of the righteous, which will be raised glorious, when those of the wicked will not; in their souls, having on the wedding garment, the robe of Christ's righteousness, and perfectly holy; and in their situation, being set at Christ's right hand, and the wicked at his left; and by the characters that will be given of them by the Judge, and the different sentences passed and executed on them:
between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not; that is, between such persons that serve the Lord, and him only, privately and publicly, in righteousness and true holiness, in spirit and in truth, with faith and fervency, with reverence and fear, heartily and willingly, seeking his glory, without any dependence on their services; and those that are ungodly, or only outwardly serve the Lord, for sinister ends, and with selfish views, and according to their own inventions, and the traditions of men, and not the will of God, as the Scribes and Pharisees; between whom, and Christ's sincere disciples and followers, the awful day, described in the next chapter Malachi 4:1, will make a manifest difference.
z ושבתם "et convertemini", Cocceius, Gussetius, so Pagninus, Montanus; "conversi", Drusius, Junius & Tremellius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Then shall ye return, or turn - , not, “return” in the sense of returning to God, for in that day will be the time of judgment, not of repentance; nor yet, “then shall ye again see;” for this is what they denied; and, if they had ceased to deny it, they would have been converted, not in that day, but before, when God gave them grace to see it. They shall turn, so as to have other convictions than before; but, as Judas. The Day of Judgment will make a great change in earthly judgment. Last shall be first and first last; this world’s sorrow shall end in joy, and worldly joy in sorrow; afflictions shall be seen to be God’s love: Psalms 119:75, “Thou in very faithfulness hast afflicted me;” and the unclouded prosperity of the ungodly to be God’s abandonment of them. The picture of the surprise of the wicked in the Day of Judgment, in the Wisdom of Solomon, is a comment on the prophet (Wisdom 5:1-5), “Then shall the righteous man stand in great boldness before the face of such as have afflicted him, and made no account of his labors; when they see it, they shall be troubled with terrible fear, and shall be amazed with the strangeness of his salvation, so far beyond all they looked for: and they, repenting and groaning for anguish of spirit, shall say within themselves, This was he whom we had sometimes in derision and a proverb of reproach: we fools counted his life madness and his end to be without honor: how is he numbered among the children of God, and his lot is among the saints!”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Malachi 3:18. Then shall ye return — To your senses, when perhaps too late; and discern-see the difference which God makes, between the righteous and the wicked, which will be most marked and awful.
Between him that serveth God — Your obedience to whom, ye said, would be unprofitable to you.
And him that serveth him not. — Of whom ye said, his disobedience would be no prejudice to him. You will find the former received into the kingdom of glory; and the latter, with yourselves, thrust down into the bitter pains of an eternal death. Reader, ponder these things.
In the great day of the Lord, at least, if not long before, it will be fully discovered who have been the truly wise people; those who took up their cross and followed Christ; or those who satisfied the flesh, with its affections and desires, following a multitude to do evil.
