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Malachi 3:6-18 6 \u201cI the Lord do not change. So you, O descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed. 7 Ever since the time of your forefathers you have turned away from my decrees and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,\u201d says the Lord Almighty.\u201cBut you ask, \u2018How are we to return?\u20198 \u201cWill a man rob God? Yet you rob me.\u201cBut you ask, \u2018How do we rob you?\u2019\u201cIn tithes and offerings. 9 You are under a curse\u2014the whole nation of you\u2014because you are robbing me. 10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,\u201d says the Lord Almighty, \u201cand see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it. 11 I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not cast their fruit,\u201d says the Lord Almighty. 12 \u201cThen all the nations will call you blessed, for yours will be a delightful land,\u201d says the Lord Almighty. 13 \u201cYou have said harsh things against me,\u201d says the Lord.\u201cYet you ask, \u2018What have we said against you?\u201914 \u201cYou have said, \u2018It is futile to serve God. What did we gain by carrying out his requirements and going about like mourners before the Lord Almighty? 15 But now we call the arrogant blessed. Certainly the evildoers prosper, and even those who challenge God escape.\u2019\u201d16 Then those who feared the Lord talked with each other, and the Lord listened and heard. A scroll of remembrance was written in his presence concerning those who feared the Lord and honored his name.17 \u201cThey will be mine,\u201d says the Lord Almighty, \u201cin the day when I make up my treasured possession. I will spare them, just as in compassion a man spares his son who serves him. 18 And you will again see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.