Malachi

By verse

3:16-18: friends of God

"As to the questions thou hast asked: Concerning Malachi, chapter 3, verses 16, 17 and 18 refer to the friends of God..."

(‘Abdu’l-Bahá Abbas, translated by Shoghi Rabbani, June 4, 1919: Star of the West, Vol. X, No. 12, p. 232, in Lights of Guidance, no. 1715)