Malachi 3:5

“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.

Cross References (47)

  • James 5:8–9 (28)

    You, too, be patient and strengthen your hearts, because the Lord’s coming is near.

  • Hebrews 13:4 (20)

    Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adult

  • Deuteronomy 5:11 (13)

    You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who takes His na

  • James 5:4 (12)

    Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvest

  • Deuteronomy 27:19 (10)

    ‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen

  • Malachi 2:14 (9)

    Yet you ask, “Why?” It is because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you h

  • Galatians 5:19–21 (8)

    The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;

  • 1 Corinthians 6:9–10 (7)

    Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, n

  • Revelation 22:15 (7)

    But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and

  • Revelation 21:8 (7)

    But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and al

  • Jeremiah 7:9–10 (7)

    Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not kn

  • Leviticus 20:6 (6)

    Whoever turns to mediums or spiritists to prostitute himself with them, I will also set My face against that person and

  • Deuteronomy 5:17–21 (6)

    You shall not murder.

  • Proverbs 23:10–11 (6)

    Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,

  • Jeremiah 22:13–17 (5)

    “Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serv

  • Jeremiah 29:23 (5)

    For they have committed an outrage in Israel by committing adultery with the wives of their neighbors and speaking lies

  • Leviticus 20:27 (5)

    A man or a woman who is a medium or spiritist must surely be put to death. They shall be stoned; their blood is upon the

  • Ezekiel 22:6–12 (5)

    See how every prince of Israel within you has used his power to shed blood.

  • Leviticus 19:13 (5)

    You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.

  • Proverbs 22:22–23 (5)

    Do not rob a poor man because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate,

  • Exodus 22:21–24 (4)

    You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

  • Proverbs 16:6 (4)

    By loving devotion and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the LORD one turns aside from evil.

  • Deuteronomy 24:17 (4)

    Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.

  • Proverbs 8:13 (4)

    To fear the LORD is to hate evil; I hate arrogant pride, evil conduct, and perverse speech.

  • Deuteronomy 24:14–15 (4)

    Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.

  • Malachi 2:17 (4)

    You have wearied the LORD with your words; yet you ask, “How have we wearied Him?” By saying, “All who do evil are good

  • Psalms 98:9 (4)

    before the LORD, for He comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness and the peoples with equity

  • Romans 3:8 (3)

    Why not say, as some slanderously claim that we say, “Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is deserv

  • Exodus 1:17 (3)

    The midwives, however, feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt had instructed; they let the boys live.

  • Psalms 96:13 (3)

    before the LORD, for He is coming—He is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peop

  • Ezekiel 34:20–22 (3)

    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says to them: ‘Behold, I Myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.

  • Leviticus 20:10 (3)

    If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress mu

  • Genesis 42:18 (3)

    and on the third day he said to them, “I fear God. So do this and you will live:

  • Micah 1:2 (3)

    Hear, O peoples, all of you; listen, O earth, and everyone in it! May the Lord GOD bear witness against you, the Lord fr

  • Exodus 18:21 (3)

    Furthermore, select capable men from among the people—God-fearing, trustworthy men who are averse to dishonest gain. App

  • Nehemiah 5:15 (3)

    The governors before me had heavily burdened the people, taking from them bread and wine plus forty shekels of silver. T

  • Psalms 81:8 (3)

    Hear, O My people, and I will warn you: O Israel, if only you would listen to Me!

  • Zechariah 5:3–4 (3)

    Then he told me, “This is the curse that is going out over the face of all the land, for according to one side of the sc

  • Psalms 36:1 (2)

    For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, the servant of the LORD. An oracle is in my heart regarding the transgression of

  • Matthew 23:13–35 (2)

    Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not

  • Genesis 20:11 (2)

    Abraham replied, “I thought to myself, ‘Surely there is no fear of God in this place. They will kill me on account of my

  • Hebrews 10:30–31 (2)

    For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine; I will repay,” and again, “The Lord will judge His people.”

  • Psalms 50:3–7 (2)

    Our God approaches and will not be silent! Consuming fire precedes Him, and a tempest rages around Him.

  • Luke 23:40 (2)

    But the other one rebuked him, saying, “Do you not even fear God, since you are under the same judgment?

  • Jude 1:14–15 (2)

    Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied about them: “Behold, the Lord is coming with myriads of His holy ones

  • 1 Thessalonians 4:6 (2)

    and no one should ever violate or exploit his brother in this regard, because the Lord will avenge all such acts, as we

  • James 5:12 (2)

    Above all, my brothers, do not swear, not by heaven or earth or by any other oath. Simply let your “Yes” be yes, and you