Malachi 3:7-15

7“From the 1days of your fathers you have turned away from My statutes and have not kept them. 2Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the Lord of armies. “But you say, ‘How shall we return?’

8“Would anyone rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed You?’ In 3tithes and 4offerings. 9You are 5cursed with a curse, for you are robbing Me, the entire nation of you! 106Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and put Me to the test now in this,” says the Lord of armies, “if I do not 7open for you the windows of heaven and 8pour out for you a blessing until 910it overflows. 11Then I will rebuke the 11devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruit of your ground; nor will the vine in the field prove fruitless to you,” says the Lord of armies. 12“12All the nations will call you blessed, for you will be a 13delightful land,” says the Lord of armies.

13“Your words have been 14arrogant against Me,” says the Lord. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against You?’ 14You have said, ‘It is 15pointless to serve God; and what 16benefit is it for us that we have done what He required, and that we have walked in mourning before the Lord of armies? 15So now we 17call the arrogant blessed; not only are the doers of wickedness built up, but they also put God to the test and 18escape punishment.’”