Malachi 3:7-9

Holman Christian Standard Bible

Robbing God

⁷ “Since the days of your fathers, you have turned from My statutes; you have not kept them.^(A) Return to Me,^(B) and I will return to you,”^(C) says the Lord of Hosts.

But you ask: “How can we return?”

⁸ “Will a man rob^(D) God? Yet you are robbing Me!”

You ask: “How do we rob You?”

“By not making the payments of the tenth and the contributions.^{(E) 9} You are suffering under a curse, yet you—the whole nation—are still robbing Me.