Malachi 3:18
Context3:18 Then once more you will see that I make a distinction between 1 the righteous and the wicked, between the one who serves God and the one who does not.
Malachi 3:14
Context3:14 You have said, ‘It is useless to serve God. How have we been helped 2 by keeping his requirements and going about like mourners before the Lord who rules over all? 3
Malachi 3:17
Context3:17 “They will belong to me,” says the Lord who rules over all, “in the day when I prepare my own special property. 4 I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.


[3:18] 1 tn Heb “you will see between.” Cf. NRSV, TEV, NLT “see the difference.”
[3:14] 2 tn Heb “What [is the] profit”; NIV “What did we gain.”
[3:14] 3 sn The people’s public display of self-effacing piety has gone unrewarded by the
[3:17] 3 sn The Hebrew word סְגֻלָּה (sÿgullah, “special property”) is a technical term referring to all the recipients of God’s redemptive grace, especially Israel (Exod 19:5; Deut 7:6; 14:2; 26:18). The