Malachi 4:6

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Malachi 4:4–6 · Berean Standard Bible

4 “Remember the law of My servant Moses, the statutes and ordinances I commanded him for all Israel at Horeb.

5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and awesome Day of the LORD.

6 And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers. Otherwise, I will come and strike the land with a curse.”

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Luke 1:16

Many of the sons of Israel he will turn back to the Lord their God.

Luke 1:17

And he will go on before the Lord in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous—to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”

Luke 1:76

And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go on before the Lord to prepare the way for Him,

Isaiah 61:2

to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor and the day of our God’s vengeance, to comfort all who mourn,

Daniel 9:26

Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations have been decreed.

Daniel 9:27

And he will confirm a covenant with many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of the temple will come the abomination that causes desolation, until the decreed destruction is poured out upon him.”

Zechariah 11:6

For I will no longer have compassion on the people of the land, declares the LORD, but behold, I will cause each man to fall into the hands of his neighbor and his king, who will devastate the land, and I will not deliver it from their hands.”

Zechariah 13:8

And in all the land, declares the LORD, two-thirds will be cut off and perish, but a third will be left in it.

Zechariah 14:2

For I will gather all the nations for battle against Jerusalem, and the city will be captured, the houses looted, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be removed from the city.

Matthew 22:7

The king was enraged, and he sent his troops to destroy those murderers and burn their city.

Matthew 23:35

And so upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

Matthew 23:36

Truly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.

Matthew 23:37

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!

Matthew 23:38

Look, your house is left to you desolate.

Matthew 24:27

For just as the lightning comes from the east and flashes as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

Matthew 24:28

Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather.

Matthew 24:29

Immediately after the tribulation of those days: ‘The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.’

Matthew 24:30

At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and all the tribes of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory.

Mark 13:14

So when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not be (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.

Mark 13:15

Let no one on the housetop go back inside to retrieve anything from his house.

Mark 13:16

And let no one in the field return for his cloak.

Mark 13:17

How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!

Mark 13:18

Pray that this will not occur in the winter.

Mark 13:19

For those will be days of tribulation unmatched from the beginning of God’s creation until now, and never to be seen again.

Mark 13:20

If the Lord had not cut short those days, nobody would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, whom He has chosen, He has cut them short.

Mark 13:21

At that time if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There He is!’ do not believe it.

Mark 13:22

For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform signs and wonders that would deceive even the elect, if that were possible.

Mark 13:23

So be on your guard; I have told you everything in advance.

Mark 13:24

But in those days, after that tribulation: ‘The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light;

Mark 13:25

the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.’

Mark 13:26

At that time they will see the Son of Man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.

Luke 19:41

As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it

Luke 19:42

and said, “If only you had known on this day what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes.

Luke 19:43

For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you in on every side.

Luke 19:44

They will level you to the ground—you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”

Luke 21:22

For these are the days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written.

Luke 21:23

How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! For there will be great distress upon the land and wrath against this people.

Luke 21:24

They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

Luke 21:25

There will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among the nations, bewildered by the roaring of the sea and the surging of the waves.

Luke 21:26

Men will faint from fear and anxiety over what is coming upon the earth, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

Luke 21:27

At that time they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

Deuteronomy 29:19

because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.

Deuteronomy 29:20

The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven

Deuteronomy 29:21

and single him out from all the tribes of Israel for disaster, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.

Deuteronomy 29:22

Then the generation to come—your sons who follow you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land—will see the plagues of the land and the sicknesses the LORD has inflicted on it.

Deuteronomy 29:23

All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.

Deuteronomy 29:24

So all the nations will ask, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’

Deuteronomy 29:25

And the people will answer, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 29:26

They went and served other gods, and they worshiped gods they had not known—gods that the LORD had not given to them.

Deuteronomy 29:27

Therefore the anger of the LORD burned against this land, and He brought upon it every curse written in this book.

Deuteronomy 29:28

The LORD uprooted them from their land in His anger, rage, and great wrath, and He cast them into another land, where they are today.’

Deuteronomy 29:29

The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.

Isaiah 24:6

Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants must bear the guilt; the earth’s dwellers have been burned, and only a few survive.

Isaiah 43:28

So I will disgrace the princes of your sanctuary, and I will devote Jacob to destruction and Israel to reproach.”

Isaiah 65:15

You will leave behind your name as a curse for My chosen ones, and the Lord GOD will slay you; but to His servants He will give another name.

Daniel 9:11

All Israel has transgressed Your law and turned away, refusing to obey Your voice; so the oath and the curse written in the Law of Moses the servant of God has been poured out on us, because we have sinned against You.

Zechariah 5:3

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 scroll, every thief will be removed; and according to the other side, every perjurer will be removed.

Zechariah 14:12

And this will be the plague with which the LORD strikes all the peoples who have warred against Jerusalem: Their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.

Mark 11:21

Peter remembered it and said, “Look, Rabbi! The fig tree You cursed has withered.”

Hebrews 6:8

But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless, and its curse is imminent. In the end it will be burned.

Hebrews 10:26

If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains,

Hebrews 10:27

but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume all adversaries.

Hebrews 10:28

Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

Hebrews 10:29

How much more severely do you think one deserves to be punished who has trampled on the Son of God, profaned the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and insulted the Spirit of grace?

Hebrews 10:30

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

Hebrews 10:31

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

Revelation 22:3

No longer will there be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be within the city, and His servants will worship Him.

Revelation 22:20

He who testifies to these things says, “Yes, I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!

Revelation 22:21

The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all the saints. Amen.