American King James Version
"Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed me. But you say, Wherein have we robbed you? In tithes and offerings. "
— Malachi 3:8, American King James Version
“Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.”
“Will a man rob God? yet ye rob me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. ”
“Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, 'How have we robbed you?' In tithes and offerings.”
“Can a person rob God? You indeed are robbing me, but you say,‘How are we robbing you?’ In tithes and contributions!”
“Shall a man afflict God, for you afflict me. And you have said: Wherein do we afflict thee? in tithes and in firstfruits.”
“Will a man keep back from God what is right? But you have kept back what is mine. But you say, What have we kept back from you? Tenths and offerings.”
“Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.”
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, says the LORD of hosts.
For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore you sons of Jacob are not consumed. ¶
Even from the days of your fathers you are gone away from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the LORD of hosts. But you said, Wherein shall we return? ¶
Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed me. But you say, Wherein have we robbed you? In tithes and offerings.
You are cursed with a curse: for you have robbed me, even this whole nation.
Bring you all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in my house, and prove me now herewith, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, says the LORD of hosts.