Malachi 3:13-18

13Your words have been stout against me, saith Jehovah; but ye say, What have we been speaking against thee? 14Ye say, It is vain to serve 1God; and what profit is it that we keep his charge, and that we walk mournfully before Jehovah of hosts? 15And now we hold the proud for happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt 2God, and they escape. 16Then they that feared Jehovah spoke often one to another; and Jehovah observed [it], and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared Jehovah, and that thought upon his name. 17And they shall be unto me a peculiar treasure, saith Jehovah of hosts, in the day that I prepare; and I will spare them as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. 18And ye shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth 3God and him that serveth him not.