Discovery BoxMalachi 2:6 
Context2:6 He taught what was true; 1 sinful words were not found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and integrity, and he turned many people away from sin.
Malachi 3:2
Context3:2 Who can endure the day of his coming? Who can keep standing when he appears? For he will be like a refiner’s fire, 2 like a launderer’s soap.
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
Malachi 3:16-17
Context3:16 Then those who respected 5 the Lord spoke to one another, and the Lord took notice. 6 A scroll 7 was prepared before him in which were recorded the names of those who respected the Lord and honored his name. 3:17 “They will belong to me,” says the Lord who rules over all, “in the day when I prepare my own special property. 8 I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.
1 tn Heb “True teaching was in his mouth”; cf. NASB, NRSV “True instruction (doctrine NAB) was in his mouth.”
2 sn The refiner’s fire was used to purify metal and refine it by melting it and allowing the dross, which floated to the top, to be scooped off.
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
5 tn Or “fear” (so NAB); NRSV “revered”; NCV “honored.”
6 tn Heb “heard and listened”; NAB “listened attentively.”
7 sn The scroll mentioned here is a “memory book” (סֵפֶר זִכָּרוֹן, sefer zikkaron) in which the
8 sn The Hebrew word סְגֻלָּה (sÿgullah, “special property”) is a technical term referring to all the recipients of God’s redemptive grace, especially Israel (Exod 19:5; Deut 7:6; 14:2; 26:18). The
