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Bible Reading for October 14
Malachi 1
[1] The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi. [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, [3] And I hated Esau, and
laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
[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. [5] And your eyes
shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be magnified from the border of
Israel.
[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?
[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. [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. [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.
[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.
[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. [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. [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.
[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.
Malachi 2
[1] And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you. [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.
[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. [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. [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. [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.
[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. [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. [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.
[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?
[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. [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.
[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. [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. [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. [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. [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?
Malachi 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 this temple, even the
messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith
the LORD of hosts.
[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: [3] And he
shall sit as a refiner and purifer 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. [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. [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. [6] For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye
sons of Jacob are not consumed.
[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? [8] Will a man rob God?
Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and
offerings. [9] Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this
whole nation.
[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. [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.
[12] And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome
land, saith the LORD of hosts.
[13] Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What
have we spoken so much against thee? [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?
[15] And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set
up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered. [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. [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.
[18] Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked,
between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
Malachi 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.
[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.
[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.
[4] Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in
Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments. [5] Behold, I will send
you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the
LORD: [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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