(Malachi 3:6-12 NIV) "I the LORD do not change. . . Ever since the time of your ancestors you have turned away from my decrees and have not kept them. . . . "Will a mere mortal rob God? Yet you rob me. "But you ask, 'How are we robbing you?' "In tithes and offerings. You are under a curse--your whole nation--because you are robbing me.
(Malachi 3:10 NIV) Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this," says the LORD Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.
(Malachi 3:11 NIV) I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not drop their fruit before it is ripe," says the LORD Almighty.
(Malachi 3:12 NIV) "Then all the nations will call you blessed, for yours will be a delightful land," says the LORD Almighty.