Malachi 3:17

“They will be Mine,” says the LORD of Hosts, “on the day when I prepare My treasured possession. And I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him.

Cross References (34)

  • Exodus 19:5 (23)

    Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—fo

  • Deuteronomy 7:6 (18)

    For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possessio

  • 2 Corinthians 6:18 (15)

    And: “I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”

  • Isaiah 62:3–4 (13)

    You will be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, a royal diadem in the palm of your God.

  • Romans 8:32 (12)

    He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all th

  • 1 Peter 2:9 (11)

    But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtu

  • Jeremiah 32:38–39 (11)

    They will be My people, and I will be their God.

  • Deuteronomy 26:17–18 (10)

    Today you have proclaimed that the LORD is your God and that you will walk in His ways, keep His statutes and commandmen

  • Jeremiah 31:33 (9)

    “But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in

  • Malachi 1:6 (8)

    “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where

  • Deuteronomy 14:2 (8)

    for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of

  • John 10:27–30 (8)

    My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.

  • Ezekiel 36:27–28 (8)

    And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and to carefully observe My ordinances.

  • Psalms 135:4 (8)

    For the LORD has chosen Jacob as His own, Israel as His treasured possession.

  • Ezekiel 16:8 (6)

    Then I passed by and saw you, and you were indeed old enough for love. So I spread My cloak over you and covered your na

  • 1 Corinthians 6:20 (6)

    you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.

  • Matthew 25:34 (6)

    Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for

  • 1 Corinthians 3:22–23 (6)

    whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future. All of them belong to you,

  • Revelation 20:12–15 (6)

    And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne. And books were opened, and one of them was the Book of

  • 2 Thessalonians 1:7–10 (5)

    and to grant relief to you who are oppressed and to us as well. This will take place when the Lord Jesus is revealed fro

  • 1 Peter 1:13–16 (5)

    Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revela

  • Isaiah 26:20–21 (5)

    Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourselves a little while until the wrath has passe

  • Jeremiah 31:20 (5)

    Is not Ephraim a precious son to Me, a delightful child? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefo

  • Nehemiah 13:22 (4)

    Then I instructed the Levites to purify themselves and guard the gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy. Remember m

  • Psalms 103:8–13 (3)

    The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion.

  • 1 Corinthians 15:23 (3)

    But each in his own turn: Christ the firstfruits; then at His coming, those who belong to Him.

  • John 17:9–10 (3)

    I ask on their behalf. I do not ask on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those You have given Me; for they are Yours

  • Zephaniah 2:2 (3)

    before the decree takes effect and the day passes like chaff, before the burning anger of the LORD comes upon you, befor

  • John 17:24 (2)

    Father, I want those You have given Me to be with Me where I am, that they may see the glory You gave Me because You lov

  • Titus 2:14 (2)

    He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zeal

  • 1 John 3:1–3 (2)

    Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are

  • Zechariah 13:9 (2)

    This third I will bring through the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on My n

  • Song of Solomon 2:16 (2)

    My beloved is mine and I am his; he pastures his flock among the lilies.

  • Galatians 5:24 (2)

    Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.