Malachi 1Malachi 2Revelation 21Malachi 1
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The word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi.
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You have been loved by me, says the Lord. But you say, Where was your love for us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? says the Lord: but Jacob was loved by me,
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And Esau was hated, and I sent destruction on his mountains, and gave his heritage to the beasts of the waste land.
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Though Edom says, We are crushed down but we will come back, building up the waste places this is what the Lord of armies has said: They may put up buildings, but I will have them pulled down and they will be named The land of evil-doing, and The people against whom the Lord keeps his wrath for ever.
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And your eyes will see it and you will say, The Lord is great even outside the limits of Israel.
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A son gives honour to his father, and a servant has fear of his master: if then I am a father, where is my honour? and if I am a master, where is the fear of me? says the Lord of armies to you, O priests, who give no value to my name. And you say, How have we not given value to your name?
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You put unclean bread on my altar. And you say, How have we made it unclean? By your saying, The table of the Lord is of no value.
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And when you give what is blind for an offering, it is no evil! and when you give what is damaged and ill, it is no evil! Give it now to your ruler will he be pleased with you, or will you have his approval? says the Lord of armies.
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And now, make request for the grace of God so that he may have mercy on us: this has been your doing: will he give his approval to any of you? says the Lord of armies.
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If only there was one among you who would see that the doors were shut, so that you might not put a light to the fire on my altar for nothing! I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord of armies, and I will not take an offering from your hands.
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For, from the coming up of the sun till its going down, my name is great among the Gentiles and in every place the smell of burning flesh is offered to my name, and a clean offering: for my name is great among the Gentiles, says the Lord of armies.
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But you make it unholy by saying, The Lord's table has become unclean, and his food is of no value.
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And you say, See, what a weariness it is! and you let out your breath at it, says the Lord of armies and you have given what has been cut about by beasts, and what is damaged in its feet and ill this is the offering you give: will this be pleasing to me from your hands? says the Lord.
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A curse on the false man who has a male in his flock, and takes his oath, and gives to the Lord a damaged thing: for I am a great King, says the Lord of armies, and my name is to be feared among the Gentiles.
Malachi 2
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And now, O you priests, this order is for you.
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If you will not give ear and take it to heart, to give glory to my name, says the Lord of armies, then I will send the curse on you and will put a curse on your blessing: truly, even now I have put a curse on it, because you do not take it to heart.
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See, I will have your arm cut off, and will put waste on your faces, even the waste from your feasts and you will be taken away with it.
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And you will be certain that I have sent this order to you, so that it might be my agreement with Levi, says the Lord of armies.
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My agreement with him was on my side life and peace, and I gave them to him on his side fear, and he had fear of me and gave honour to my name.
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True teaching was in his mouth, and no evil was seen on his lips: he was walking with me in peace and righteousness, turning numbers of people away from evil-doing.
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For it is right for the priest's lips to keep knowledge, and for men to be waiting for the law from his mouth: for he is the servant sent from the Lord of armies.
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But you are turned out of the way you have made the law hard for numbers of people you have made the agreement of Levi of no value, says the Lord of armies.
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And so I have taken away your honour and made you low before all the people, even as you have not kept my ways, and have given no thought to me in using the law.
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Have we not all one father? has not one God made us? why are we, every one of us, acting falsely to his brother, putting shame on the agreement of our fathers?
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Judah has been acting falsely, and a disgusting thing has been done in Jerusalem for Judah has made unclean the holy place of the Lord which is dear to him, and has taken as his wife the daughter of a strange god.
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The Lord will have the man who does this cut off root and branch out of the tents of Jacob, and him who makes an offering to the Lord of armies.
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And this again you do: covering the altar of the Lord with weeping and with grief, so that he gives no more thought to the offering, and does not take it with pleasure from your hand.
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But you say, For what reason? Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your early years, to whom you have been untrue, though she is your friend and the wife to whom you have given your word.
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...So give thought to your spirit, and let no one be false to the wife of his early years.
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For I am against the putting away of a wife, says the Lord, the God of Israel, and against him who is clothed with violent acts, says the Lord of armies: so give thought to your spirit and do not be false in your acts.
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You have made the Lord tired with your words. And still you say, How have we made him tired? By your saying, Everyone who does evil is good in the eyes of the Lord, and he has delight in them or, Where is God the judge?
Revelation 21
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And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were gone and there was no more sea.
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And I saw the holy town, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, like a bride made beautiful for her husband.
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And there came to my ears a great voice out of the high seat, saying, See, the Tent of God is with men, and he will make his living-place with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them, and be their God.
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And he will put an end to all their weeping and there will be no more death, or sorrow, or crying, or pain for the first things have come to an end.
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And he who is seated on the high seat said, See, I make all things new. And he said, Put it in the book for these words are certain and true.
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And he said to me, It is done. I am the First and the Last, the start and the end. I will freely give of the fountain of the water of life to him who is in need.
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He who overcomes will have these things for his heritage and I will be his God, and he will be my son.
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But those who are full of fear and without faith, the unclean and takers of life, those who do the sins of the flesh, and those who make use of evil powers or who give worship to images, and all those who are false, will have their part in the sea of ever-burning fire which is the second death.
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And one of the seven angels who had the seven vessels in which were the seven last punishments, came and said to me, Come here, and see the bride, the Lamb's wife.
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And he took me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and let me see the holy town Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,
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Having the glory of God: and her light was like a stone of great price, a jasper stone, clear as glass:
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She had a wall great and high, with twelve doors, and at the doors twelve angels and names on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.
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And on the east were three doors and on the north three doors and on the south three doors and on the west three doors.
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And the wall of the town had twelve bases, and on them the twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb.
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And he who was talking with me had a gold measuring-rod to take the measure of the town, and of its doors, and its wall.
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And the town is square, as wide as it is long and he took the measure of the town with the rod, one thousand and five hundred miles: it is equally long and wide and high.
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And he took the measure of its wall, one hundred and forty-four cubits, after the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.
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And the building of its wall was of jasper, and the town was clear gold, clear as glass.
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The bases of the wall of the town had ornaments of all sorts of beautiful stones. The first base was jasper the second, sapphire the third, chalcedony the fourth, emerald
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The fifth, sardonyx the sixth, sardius the seventh, chrysolite the eighth, beryl the ninth, topaz the tenth, chrysoprase the eleventh, jacinth the twelfth, amethyst.
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And the twelve doors were twelve pearls every door was made of one pearl and the street of the town was clear gold, as clear as glass.
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And I saw no Temple there because the Lord God, the Ruler of all, and the Lamb are its Temple.
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And the town has no need of the sun, or of the moon, to give it light: for the glory of God did make it light, and the light of it is the Lamb.
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And the nations will go in its light: and the kings of the earth will take their glory into it.
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And the doors of it will never be shut by day (for there is no night there):
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And the glory and honour of the nations will come into it:
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And nothing unclean may come into it, or anyone whose works are cursed or false but only those whose names are in the Lamb's book of life.
