Malachi 4:1

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

‘For look, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and everyone who commits wickedness will become stubble. The coming day will consume them,’ says the Lord of Armies, ‘not leaving them root or branches.

Cross References

2 Thessalonians 1:8

when he takes vengeance with flaming fire  on those who don’t know God  and on those who don’t obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

2 Peter 3:7

By the same word,  the present heavens and earth are stored up for fire, being kept for the day of judgement  and destruction of the ungodly.

Malachi 3:2

But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will be able to stand when he appears?  For he will be like a refiner’s fire  and like launderer’s bleach.  ,

Isaiah 47:14

Look, they are like stubble; fire burns them. They cannot rescue themselves from the power of the flame. This is not a coal for warming themselves, or a fire to sit beside!

Isaiah 5:24

Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes straw and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will become like something rotten and their blossoms will blow away like dust, for they have rejected the instruction of the  Lord of Armies, and they have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Obadiah 1:18

Then the house of Jacob will be a blazing fire, and the house of Joseph, a burning flame, but the house of Esau will be stubble; Jacob  will set them on fire and consume Edom. Therefore no survivor will remain of the house of Esau, for the Lord has spoken.

Malachi 3:15

So now we consider the arrogant  to be fortunate.  Not only do those who commit wickedness prosper, they even test God  and escape.’

Zephaniah 1:18

Their silver and their gold will be unable to rescue them on the day of the  Lord’s wrath. The whole earth will be consumed by the fire of his jealousy, for he will make a complete, yes, a horrifying end of all the inhabitants of the earth.

Job 18:16

His roots below dry up, and his branches above wither away.

Luke 21:20

‘When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies,   then recognise that its desolation   has come near.

Luke 19:43

For the days will come on you   when your enemies will build a barricade round you, surround you, and hem you in on every side.

Matthew 3:12

His winnowing shovel is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing-floor and gather his wheat into the barn. But the chaff he will burn with fire that never goes out.’

Malachi 4:5

Look, I am going to send you the prophet Elijah  before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes.

Malachi 3:18

So you will again see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him.

Zechariah 14:1

Look, a day belonging to the Lord is coming  when the plunder taken from you will be divided in your presence.

Zephaniah 1:14

The great day of the  Lord is near, near and rapidly approaching. Listen, the day of the  Lord  – then the warrior’s cry is bitter.

Nahum 1:10

For they will be consumed like entangled thorns, like the drink of a drunkard and like straw that is fully dry.

Joel 2:1

Blow the ram’s horn in Zion; sound the alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the residents of the land tremble, for the day of the  Lord is coming; in fact, it is near –

Exodus 15:7

You overthrew your adversaries by your great majesty. You unleashed your burning wrath; it consumed them like stubble.

Joel 2:31

The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the great and terrible day of the  Lord  comes.

Amos 2:9

Yet I destroyed the Amorite  as Israel advanced; his height  was like the cedars, and he was as sturdy as the oaks; I destroyed his fruit  above and his roots beneath.

Ezekiel 7:10

Here is the day! Here it comes! Doom is on its way. The rod has blossomed; arrogance has bloomed.

Isaiah 41:2

Who has stirred up someone from the east? In righteousness he calls him to serve.  ,, The Lord hands nations over to him, and he subdues kings. He makes them like dust with his sword, like wind-driven stubble with his bow.

Isaiah 40:24

They are barely planted, barely sown, their stem hardly takes root in the ground when he blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind carries them away like stubble.

Luke 6:23

‘Rejoice in that day and leap for joy. Take note #– #your reward is great in heaven, for this is the way their ancestors used to treat the prophets.

Isaiah 9:18

For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes thorns and briars and kindles the forest thickets so that they go up in a column of smoke.

Isaiah 9:19

The land is scorched by the wrath of the  Lord of Armies, and the people are like fuel for the fire. No one has compassion on his brother.

Ezekiel 20:38

I will purge you of those who rebel and transgress against me.  I will bring them out of the land where they live as foreign residents, but they will not enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 21:32

You will be fuel for the fire. Your blood will be spilled within the land. You will not be remembered, for I, the Lord, have spoken.” ’

Ezekiel 24:11

Set the empty pot on its coals so that it becomes hot and its copper glows. Then its impurity will melt inside it; its corrosion will be consumed.

Ezekiel 34:17

‘ “As for you, my flock, the Lord God says this: Look, I am going to judge between one sheep and another, between the rams and goats.

Malachi 3:3

He will be like a refiner and purifier of silver; he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver.  Then they will present offerings to the Lord in righteousness.