8"Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me. "But you ask, 'How do we rob you?' "In tithes and offerings.


In Context

5 "So I will come near to you for judgment. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive aliens of justice, but do not fear me," says the Lord Almighty.

6 "I the Lord do not change. So you, O descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed.

7 Ever since the time of your forefathers you have turned away from my decrees and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you," says the Lord Almighty. "But you ask, 'How are we to return?'

8 "Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me. "But you ask, 'How do we rob you?' "In tithes and offerings.

9 You are under a curse-the whole nation of you-because you are robbing me.

10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this," says the Lord Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it.

Malachi 3:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:8Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:8Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed me. But you say, Wherein have we robbed you? In tithes and offerings.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:8Shall a man afflict God? for you afflict me. And you have said: Wherein do we afflict thee? in tithes and in firstfruits.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:8Will a man rob God? yet ye rob me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:8Will a man rob God? yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, In what have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:8Will a man rob God? But ye rob me. And ye say, Wherein do we rob thee? In tithes and heave-offerings.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:8Will a man rob God? yet ye rob me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:8Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, 'How have we robbed you?' In tithes and offerings.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:8Doth man deceive God? but ye are deceiving Me, And ye have said: 'In what have we deceived Thee?' The tithe and the heave-offering!