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What does Malachi 3:16 mean?
"Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared Yahweh, and who honored his name."
— Malachi 3:16 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
“Your words have been stout against me,” says Yahweh. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against you?’
You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God;’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?
Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’
Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared Yahweh, and who honored his name.
They shall be mine,” says Yahweh of Armies, “my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.
Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.
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