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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAL.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; he will purify the Levites and refine them like gold and silver. Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will have men who will bring offerings in righteousness, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAL.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">and the offerings of Judah and Jerusalem will be acceptable to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, as in days gone by, as in former years.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAL.3.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAL.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners among you of justice, but do not fear me,&#8221; says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Breaking Covenant by Withholding Tithes</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAL.3.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAL.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;I the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> do not change. So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAL.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Ever since the time of your ancestors you have turned away from my decrees and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,&#8221; says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAL.3.7"><span class="content">&#8220;But you ask, &#8216;How are we to return?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAL.3.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAL.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Will a mere mortal rob God? Yet you rob me.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAL.3.8"><span class="content">&#8220;But you ask, &#8216;How are we robbing you?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAL.3.8"><span class="content">&#8220;In tithes and offerings. </span></span></div>
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