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The Book of Malachi, Chapter 3, Verse 8

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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?
King James Version
Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
American Standard Version
Will a man rob God? yet ye rob me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
New English Translation
Can a person rob God? You indeed are robbing me, but you say,‘How are we robbing you?’ In tithes and contributions!
World English Bible
Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, 'How have we robbed you?' In tithes and offerings.
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Ye [are] cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, [even] this whole nation.
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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].
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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.
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And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.
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Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken [so much] against thee?
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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?
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And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, [they that] tempt God are even delivered.
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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.
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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.
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Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.