From: ngninja@baptist.email   
      
   Bible Reading for October 1   
      
   Malachi Chapter 1   
      
   1 The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.   
      
   2 I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved   
   us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,   
      
   3 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for   
   the dragons of the wilderness.   
      
   4 Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build   
   the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but   
   I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness,   
   and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever.   
      
   5 And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be magnified   
   from the border of Israel.   
      
   6 A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a   
   father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear?   
   saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And   
   ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?   
      
   7 Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we   
   polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible.   
      
   8 And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye   
   offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor;   
   will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts.   
      
   9 And now, I pray you, beseech God that he will be gracious unto us:   
   this hath been by your means: will he regard your persons? saith the   
   LORD of hosts.   
      
   10 Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought?   
   neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure   
   in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at   
   your hand.   
      
   11 For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same   
   my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense   
   shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be   
   great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.   
      
   12 But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is   
   polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible.   
      
   13 Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye have snuffed at   
   it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought that which was torn, and the   
   lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this of   
   your hand? saith the LORD.   
      
   14 But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and   
   voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great   
   King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen.   
      
   Malachi Chapter 2   
      
   1 And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.   
      
   2 If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory   
   unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon   
   you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already,   
   because ye do not lay it to heart.   
      
   3 Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces,   
   even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.   
      
   4 And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my   
   covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.   
      
   5 My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for   
   the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name.   
      
   6 The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his   
   lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from   
   iniquity.   
      
   7 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the   
   law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.   
      
   8 But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at   
   the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.   
      
   9 Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the   
   people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in   
   the law.   
      
   10 Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we   
   deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the   
   covenant of our fathers?   
      
   11 Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in   
   Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the   
   LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.   
      
   12 The LORD will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the   
   scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an   
   offering unto the LORD of hosts.   
      
   13 And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the LORD with   
   tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not   
   the offering any more, or receiveth it with good will at your hand.   
      
   14 Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between   
   thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt   
   treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.   
      
   15 And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And   
   wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to   
   your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.   
      
   16 For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away:   
   for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts:   
   therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.   
      
   17 Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we   
   wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight   
   of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?   
      
   Malachi Chapter 3   
      
   1 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before   
   me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even   
   the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall   
   come, saith the LORD of hosts.   
      
   2 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he   
   appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap:   
      
   3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall   
   purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they   
   may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.   
      
   4 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the   
   LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years.   
      
   5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness   
   against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false   
   swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the   
   widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his   
   right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.   
      
   6 For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not   
   consumed.   
      
   7 Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine   
   ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return   
      
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