king james study



==== <MAL1>

MAL-1:1  The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.

MAL-1:2  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,

MAL-1:3  And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his 
heritage waste for

the dragons of the wilderness.

MAL-1:4  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.

MAL-1:5  And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD 
will be magnified

from the border of Israel.

MAL-1:6  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?

MAL-1:7  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.

MAL-1:8  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.

MAL-1:9  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.

MAL-1:10  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.

MAL-1:11  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.

MAL-1:12  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.

MAL-1:13  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.

MAL-1:14  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.

==== <MAL2>

MAL-2:1  And now, O ye priests, this commandment [is] for you.

MAL-2:2  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.

MAL-2:3  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.

MAL-2:4  And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment 
unto you, that my

covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.

MAL-2:5  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.

MAL-2:6  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.

MAL-2:7  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.

MAL-2:8  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.

MAL-2:9  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.

MAL-2:10  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?

MAL-2:11  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.

MAL-2:12  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.

MAL-2:13  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.

MAL-2:14  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.

MAL-2:15  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.

MAL-2:16  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.

MAL-2:17  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?

==== <MAL3>

MAL-3:1  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.

MAL-3:2  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:

MAL-3:3  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.

MAL-3:4  Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be 
pleasant unto the

LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years.

MAL-3:5  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.

MAL-3:6  For I [am] the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of 
Jacob are not

consumed.

MAL-3:7  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?

MAL-3:8  Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, 
Wherein have

we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.

MAL-3:9  Ye [are] cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, 
[even] this

whole nation.

MAL-3:10  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].

MAL-3:11  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.

MAL-3:12  And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall 
be a

delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.

MAL-3:13  Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. 
Yet ye say,

What have we spoken [so much] against thee?

MAL-3:14  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?

MAL-3:15  And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work 
wickedness are

set up; yea, [they that] tempt God are even delivered.

MAL-3:16  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.

MAL-3:17  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.

MAL-3:18  Then shall ye return, and discern between the 
righteous and the

wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him 
not.

==== <MAL4>

MAL-4:1  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.

MAL-4:2  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.

MAL-4:3  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.



MAL-4:4  Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I 
commanded unto him

in Horeb for all Israel, [with] the statutes and judgments.

MAL-4:5  Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the 
coming of the

great and dreadful day of the LORD:

MAL-4:6  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.



 

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