Malachi 3:3 Cross References

Malachi 3:3

3: He will sit and judge like a refiner of silver, watching closely as the dross is burned away. He will purify the Levites, refining them like gold or silver, so that they may once again offer acceptable sacrifices to the LORD.

Isaiah 1:25

  1. I will turn against you. I will melt you down and skim off your slag. I will remove all your impurities.

Proverbs 17:3

  1. Fire tests the purity of silver and gold, but the LORD tests the heart.

Daniel 12:10

  1. Many will be purified, cleansed, and refined by these trials. But the wicked will continue in their wickedness, and none of them will understand. Only those who are wise will know what it means.

John 4:23

  1. But the time is coming and is already here when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. The Father is looking for anyone who will worship him that way.
  2. For God is Spirit, so those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth."

Zechariah 13:9

  1. I will bring that group through the fire and make them pure, just as gold and silver are refined and purified by fire. They will call on my name, and I will answer them. I will say, `These are my people,' and they will say, `The LORD is our God.'"

Hebrews 12:10

  1. For our earthly fathers disciplined us for a few years, doing the best they knew how. But God's discipline is always right and good for us because it means we will share in his holiness.

Ephesians 5:26

  1. to make her holy and clean, washed by baptism and God's word.
  2. He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault.

Titus 2:14

  1. He gave his life to free us from every kind of sin, to cleanse us, and to make us his very own people, totally committed to doing what is right.

Romans 12:1

  1. And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice--the kind he will accept. When you think of what he has done for you, is this too much to ask?

Psalms 66:10

  1. You have tested us, O God; you have purified us like silver melted in a crucible.

Luke 3:16

  1. John answered their questions by saying, "I baptize with water; but someone is coming soon who is greater than I am--so much greater that I am not even worthy to be his slave. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.

Revelation 3:18

  1. I advise you to buy gold from me--gold that has been purified by fire. Then you will be rich. And also buy white garments so you will not be shamed by your nakedness. And buy ointment for your eyes so you will be able to see.

1 Peter 2:9

  1. But you are not like that, for you are a chosen people. You are a kingdom of priests, God's holy nation, his very own possession. This is so you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light.

Psalms 4:5

  1. Offer proper sacrifices, and trust in the LORD.

Hebrews 13:15

  1. With Jesus' help, let us continually offer our sacrifice of praise to God by proclaiming the glory of his name.
  2. Don't forget to do good and to share what you have with those in need, for such sacrifices are very pleasing to God.

Psalms 107:21

  1. Let them praise the LORD for his great love and for all his wonderful deeds to them.
  2. Let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving and sing joyfully about his glorious acts.

1 Peter 2:5

  1. And now God is building you, as living stones, into his spiritual temple. What's more, you are God's holy priests, who offer the spiritual sacrifices that please him because of Jesus Christ.

Psalms 141:1

  1. O LORD, I am calling to you. Please hurry! Listen when I cry to you for help!
  2. Accept my prayer as incense offered to you, and my upraised hands as an evening offering.

2 Timothy 4:6

  1. As for me, my life has already been poured out as an offering to God. The time of my death is near.

Romans 15:16

  1. a special messenger from Christ Jesus to you Gentiles. I bring you the Good News and offer you up as a fragrant sacrifice to God so that you might be pure and pleasing to him by the Holy Spirit.

Ezekiel 22:18

  1. "Son of man, the people of Israel are the worthless slag that remains after silver is smelted. They are the dross that is left over--a useless mixture of copper, tin, iron, and lead.
  2. So give them this message from the Sovereign LORD: Because you are all worthless slag, I will bring you to my crucible in Jerusalem.
  3. I will melt you down in the heat of my fury, just as copper, tin, iron, and lead are melted down in a furnace.
  4. I will gather you together and blow the fire of my anger upon you,
  5. and you will melt like silver in fierce heat. Then you will know that I, the LORD, have poured out my fury on you."

Jeremiah 33:18

  1. And there will always be Levitical priests to offer burnt offerings and grain offerings and sacrifices to me."
  2. Then this message came to Jeremiah from the LORD:
  3. "If you can break my covenant with the day and the night so that they do not come on their usual schedule,
  4. only then will my covenant with David, my servant, be broken. Only then will he no longer have a descendant to reign on his throne. The same is true for my covenant with the Levitical priests who minister before me.
  5. And as the stars cannot be counted and the sand on the seashores cannot be measured, so I will multiply the descendants of David, my servant, and the Levites who minister before me."

Proverbs 25:4

  1. Remove the dross from silver, and the sterling will be ready for the silversmith.

Philippians 4:18

  1. At the moment I have all I need--more than I need! I am generously supplied with the gifts you sent me with Epaphroditus. They are a sweet-smelling sacrifice that is acceptable to God and pleases him.

Malachi 2:1

  1. "Listen, you priests; this command is for you!
  2. Listen to me and take it to heart. Honor my name," says the LORD Almighty, "or I will bring a terrible curse against you. I will curse even the blessings you receive. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you have not taken my warning seriously.
  3. I will rebuke your descendants and splatter your faces with the dung of your festival sacrifices, and I will add you to the dung heap.
  4. Then at last you will know it was I who sent you this warning so that my covenant with the Levites may continue," says the LORD Almighty.
  5. "The purpose of my covenant with the Levites was to bring life and peace, and this is what I gave them. This called for reverence from them, and they greatly revered me and stood in awe of my name.

Isaiah 66:19

  1. I will perform a sign among them. And I will send those who survive to be messengers to the nations--to Tarshish, to the Libyans and Lydians (who are famous as archers), to Tubal and Greece, and to all the lands beyond the sea that have not heard of my fame or seen my glory. There they will declare my glory to the nations.
  2. They will bring the remnant of your people back from every nation. They will bring them to my holy mountain in Jerusalem as an offering to the LORD. They will ride on horses, in chariots and wagons, and on mules and camels," says the LORD.
  3. "And I will appoint some of those who return to be my priests and Levites. I, the LORD, have spoken!

Psalms 50:23

  1. But giving thanks is a sacrifice that truly honors me. If you keep to my path, I will reveal to you the salvation of God."

Jeremiah 6:28

  1. Are they not the worst of rebels, full of slander? They are as insolent as bronze, as hard and cruel as iron. All of them lead others into corruption.
  2. The bellows blow fiercely. The refining fire grows hotter. But it will never purify and cleanse them because there is no purity in them to refine.
  3. I will label them `Rejected Silver' because I, the LORD, am discarding them."

Hosea 14:2

  1. Bring your petitions, and return to the LORD. Say to him, "Forgive all our sins and graciously receive us, so that we may offer you the sacrifice of praise.

Isaiah 61:6

  1. You will be called priests of the LORD, ministers of our God. You will be fed with the treasures of the nations and will boast in their riches.

Psalms 116:17

  1. I will offer you a sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of the LORD.

Isaiah 48:10

  1. I have refined you but not in the way silver is refined. Rather, I have refined you in the furnace of suffering.

Psalms 69:30

  1. Then I will praise God's name with singing, and I will honor him with thanksgiving.
  2. For this will please the LORD more than sacrificing an ox or presenting a bull with its horns and hooves.

Malachi 1:6

  1. The LORD Almighty says to the priests: "A son honors his father, and a servant respects his master. I am your father and master, but where are the honor and respect I deserve? You have despised my name! "But you ask, `How have we ever despised your name?'
  2. "You have despised my name by offering defiled sacrifices on my altar. "Then you ask, `How have we defiled the sacrifices?'"You defile them by saying the altar of the LORD deserves no respect.
  3. When you give blind animals as sacrifices, isn't that wrong? And isn't it wrong to offer animals that are crippled and diseased? Try giving gifts like that to your governor, and see how pleased he is!" says the LORD Almighty.
  4. "Go ahead, beg God to be merciful to you! But when you bring that kind of offering, why should he show you any favor at all?" asks the LORD Almighty.
  5. "I wish that someone among you would shut the Temple doors so that these worthless sacrifices could not be offered! I am not at all pleased with you," says the LORD Almighty, "and I will not accept your offerings.

Revelation 1:6

  1. He has made us his Kingdom and his priests who serve before God his Father. Give to him everlasting glory! He rules forever and ever! Amen!

1 Peter 1:7

  1. These trials are only to test your faith, to show that it is strong and pure. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold--and your faith is far more precious to God than mere gold. So if your faith remains strong after being tried by fiery trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world.

Philippians 2:17

  1. But even if my life is to be poured out like a drink offering to complete the sacrifice of your faithful service (that is, if I am to die for you), I will rejoice, and I want to share my joy with all of you.

Ezekiel 44:15

  1. "However, the Levitical priests of the family of Zadok continued to minister faithfully in the Temple when Israel abandoned me for idols. These men will serve as my ministers. They will stand in my presence and offer the fat and blood of the sacrifices, says the Sovereign LORD.
  2. They are the ones who will enter my sanctuary and approach my table to serve me. They are the ones who will fulfill all my requirements.

1 Peter 4:12

  1. Dear friends, don't be surprised at the fiery trials you are going through, as if something strange were happening to you.
  2. Instead, be very glad--because these trials will make you partners with Christ in his suffering, and afterward you will have the wonderful joy of sharing his glory when it is displayed to all the world.

Revelation 5:10

  1. And you have caused them to become God's Kingdom and his priests. And they will reign on the earth."

Psalms 50:14

  1. What I want instead is your true thanks to God; I want you to fulfill your vows to the Most High.
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