Malachi 3:5-8

English Standard Version

⁵ “Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be ^(A)a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those ^(B)who oppress the hired worker in his wages, ^(C)the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

Robbing God

⁶ “For ^(D)I the Lord do not change; ^(E)therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed. ^7 (F)From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. ^(G)Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. ^(H)But you say, ‘How shall we return?’ ⁸ Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. ^(I)But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ ^(J)In your tithes and contributions.