Mal 3:7-12 | ESV | STEP | From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts . But you say , How shall we return ?

a Acts 7:51

bSee Zech. 1:3

c[ch. 1:2]

d[See ver. 7 above]

e[Neh. 13:10]

f[ch. 2:2]

g[Prov. 3:9, 10]

hSee 2 Cor. 9:6-8

iSee Gen. 7:11

j[Joel 1:4]

l Zeph. 3:19

m[Isa. 62:4]

Malachi 3:7-12

7 ^aFrom the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. ^bReturn to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. ^cBut you say, ‘How shall we return?’ 8 Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. ^dBut you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ ^eIn your tithes and contributions. 9 ^fYou are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you. 10 ^gBring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby ^hput me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open ⁱthe windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need. 11 I will rebuke ^jthe devourer ^{▼▼Probably a name for some crop-destroying pest or pests} for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your soil, and your vine in the field shall not fail to bear, says the Lord of hosts. 12 Then ^lall nations will call you blessed, for you will be ^ma land of delight, says the Lord of hosts.