Malachi 3:6
What is written? (ESV)
For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.
What does it say?
“I the Lord do not change,” therefore the children of Jacob are not consumed.
What is its immediate context?
Malachi’s prophecy to those that returned from Babylonian/Persian captivity around 450 BC. God, through Malachi, responds to the post-captive priests with a series of “But you say” statements, to which God responds in condemnation summed up in 2:8-9, “But you have turned aside from the way. You have caused many to stumble by your instruction. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the Lord of hosts, and so I make you despised and abased before all the people, inasmuch as you do not keep my ways but show partiality in your instruction.”
How Malachi 3:6 is applied across Bible answers
Does God change?
A direct statement by God that He doesn't change.
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God doesn't change.
