“Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Malachi 3 contains 18 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.