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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.