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Malachi 3:16 KJV
Malachi · chapter 3 · verse 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.Malachi 3:16 · King James Version
Malachi 3:16 in context
14Ye 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?
15And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
16Then 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.
17And 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.
18Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
Commentary
Cross references
- Revelation 20:12
- Psalms 56:8
- Malachi 4:2
- Revelation 15:4
- Isaiah 26:3
- Hebrews 10:24
- 1 Thessalonians 5:11
- Malachi 3:5
Key words (Strong's)
- remembrancezikrôwna mementoH2146 →
- hearkenedqâshabto prick up the earsH7181 →
- writtenkâthabto grave, by implication, to writeH3789 →
- thoughtchâshabproperly, to plait or interpenetrateH2803 →
- fearedyârêʼfearingH3373 →
- beforepânîymthe faceH6440 →
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Among the people of the Jews at this time, though they all enjoyed the same privileges and advantages, there were men of very different characters (as ever were, and ever will be, in the world and in the church), like Jeremiah's figs, some very good and others very bad, some that plainly appeared to be the children of…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 13-18