Malachi 3:6 KJV — MannaFest

Malachi 3:6

For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.

KJV

Parallel translations

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ASV

For I, Jehovah, change not; therefore ye, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

WEB

“Because I, the LORD, do not change, you descendants of Jacob have not been destroyed.

YLT

For I am Jehovah, I have not changed, And ye, the sons of Jacob, Ye have not been consumed.

DBT

For I Jehovah change not, and ye, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

About this book

Old Testament

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Malachi — The last Old Testament voice — a prophet in dialogue with a community grown cynical about covenant. ‘I am the LORD, I change not.’

Author: Malachi (1:1) — whose name means ‘my messenger’; possibly a personal name, possibly a title
Date: c. 430 BC, the late post-exilic period (contemporary with Nehemiah's second term)

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Cross-references

47 verses on the floor

Hebrews 13:8
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
Numbers 23:19
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Lamentations 3:22–23
It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
Jeremiah 32:27
Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?

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Voices3

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Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

A reproof of the Jews for their corrupting God's ordinances and sacrilegiously robbing him of his dues, with a charge to them to amend this matter, and a promise that, if they did, God would return in mercy to them,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

I change not; and therefore no word that I have spoken shall fall to the ground." Is God a just revenger of those that rebel against him? Is he the bountiful rewarder of those that diligently seek him? In both these he is unchangeable.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Ro 11:29: compare the whole chapter, in which God's mercy in store for Israel is made wholly to flow from God's unchanging faithfulness to His own covenant of love. So here, as is implied by the phrase "sons of Jacob" (Ge 28:13;

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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Words1

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Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

MAL 3:6HEB 13:8 JAS 1:17
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
MAL 3:6JAS 1:17 JHN 3:27
MAL 3:6JER 32:27 MAT 19:26
MAL 3:6JAS 1:17 MAT 7:11
MAL 3:6NUM 23:19 1SA 15:29
MAL 3:6JER 32:27 JER 32:17
MAL 3:6HEB 13:8 REV 1:8
MAL 3:6NUM 23:19 HEB 6:18

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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