Mal 3:2, 4:1, Mat 3:9-12, Heb 2:3, 3:12, 12:25 | ESV | STEP | But who can endure the day of his coming , and who can stand when he appears ? For he is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers ’ soap .

Malachi 3:2

2 But ^awho can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For ^bhe is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap.

Malachi 4:1

The Great Day of the Lord

1 ^{▼▼Ch 4:1–6 is ch 3:19–24 in Hebrew} “For behold, ^dthe day is coming, ^eburning like an oven, when ^fall the arrogant and ^gall evildoers ^hwill be stubble. The day that is coming ⁱshall set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.

Matthew 3:9-12

9 And do not presume to say to yourselves, ^j‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I tell you, God is able from ^kthese stones to raise up children for Abraham. 10 Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. ^lEvery tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

11 ^m“I baptize you with water ⁿfor repentance, but ^ohe who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you ^pwith the Holy Spirit and ^qfire. 12 His ^rwinnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and ^sgather his wheat into the barn, ^tbut the chaff he will burn with ^uunquenchable fire.”

Hebrews 2:3

3 ^vhow shall we escape if we ^wneglect such a great salvation? It was ^xdeclared at first by the Lord, and it was ^yattested to us ^zby those who heard,

Hebrews 3:12

12 Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from ^aathe living God.

Hebrews 12:25

25 See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For ^abif they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape if we reject him who warns from heaven.