Malachi 3:12-18
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12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.
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13 Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?
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14 Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?
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15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
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16 Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.
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17 And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
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18 Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.