Discovery BoxMalachi 1:2 
Context1:2 “I have shown love to you,” says the Lord, but you say, “How have you shown love to us?”
“Esau was Jacob’s brother,” the Lord explains, “yet I chose Jacob
Malachi 3:7
Context3:7 From the days of your ancestors you have ignored 1 my commandments 2 and have not kept them! Return to me, and I will return to you,” says the Lord who rules over all. “But you say, ‘How should we return?’
Malachi 3:14
Context3:14 You have said, ‘It is useless to serve God. How have we been helped 3 by keeping his requirements and going about like mourners before the Lord who rules over all? 4
1 tn Heb “turned aside from.”
2 tn Or “statutes” (so NAB, NASB, NRSV); NIV “decrees”; NLT “laws.”
3 tn Heb “What [is the] profit”; NIV “What did we gain.”
4 sn The people’s public display of self-effacing piety has gone unrewarded by the
