Malachi 2:17

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Malachi 2:15–17 · Berean Standard Bible

15 Has not the LORD made them one, having a portion of the Spirit? And why one? Because He seeks godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith with the wife of your youth.

16 “For I hate divorce,” says the LORD, the God of Israel. “He who divorces his wife covers his garment with violence,” says the LORD of Hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith.

17 You have wearied the LORD with your words; yet you ask, “How have we wearied Him?” By saying, “All who do evil are good in the sight of the LORD, and in them He delights,” or, “Where is the God of justice?”

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where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work.

Psalms 95:10

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Isaiah 1:14

I hate your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They have become a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing them.

Isaiah 7:13

Then Isaiah said, “Hear now, O house of David! Is it not enough to try the patience of men? Will you try the patience of my God as well?

Isaiah 43:24

You have not bought Me sweet cane with your silver, nor satisfied Me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened Me with your sins; you have wearied Me with your iniquities.

Jeremiah 15:6

You have forsaken Me, declares the LORD. You have turned your back. So I will stretch out My hand against you and I will destroy you; I am weary of showing compassion.

Ezekiel 16:43

Because you did not remember the days of your youth, but enraged Me with all these things, I will surely bring your deeds down upon your own head, declares the Lord GOD. Have you not committed this lewdness on top of all your other abominations?

Amos 2:13

Behold, I am about to crush you in your place as with a cart full of grain.

Malachi 2:14

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Malachi 1:6

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Malachi 1:7

By presenting defiled food on My altar. But you ask, ‘How have we defiled You ?’ By saying that the table of the LORD is contemptible.

Malachi 3:8

Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you ask, ‘How do we rob You?’ In tithes and offerings.

Malachi 3:13

“Your words against Me have been harsh,” says the LORD. “Yet you ask, ‘What have we spoken against You?’

Malachi 3:14

You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His requirements and walking mournfully before the LORD of Hosts?

Malachi 3:15

So now we call the arrogant blessed. Not only do evildoers prosper, they even test God and escape.’”

Job 34:5

For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.

Job 34:6

Would I lie about my case? My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’

Job 34:7

What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?

Job 34:8

He keeps company with evildoers and walks with wicked men.

Job 34:9

For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight in God.’

Job 34:17

Could one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn the just and mighty One,

Job 34:36

If only Job were tried to the utmost for answering like a wicked man.

Job 36:17

But now you are laden with the judgment due the wicked; judgment and justice have seized you.

Psalms 73:3

For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Psalms 73:4

They have no struggle in their death; their bodies are well-fed.

Psalms 73:5

They are free of the burdens others carry; they are not afflicted like other men.

Psalms 73:6

Therefore pride is their necklace; a garment of violence covers them.

Psalms 73:7

From their prosperity proceeds iniquity; the imaginations of their hearts run wild.

Psalms 73:8

They mock and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression.

Psalms 73:9

They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongues strut across the earth.

Psalms 73:10

So their people return to this place and drink up waters in abundance.

Psalms 73:11

The wicked say, “How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge?”

Psalms 73:12

Behold, these are the wicked— always carefree as they increase their wealth.

Psalms 73:13

Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure; in innocence I have washed my hands.

Psalms 73:14

For I am afflicted all day long and punished every morning.

Psalms 73:15

If I had said, “I will speak this way,” then I would have betrayed Your children.

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For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon!’

Matthew 11:19

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at this glutton and drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is vindicated by her actions.”

Deuteronomy 32:4

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1 Samuel 2:3

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Psalms 10:11

He says to himself, “God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees.”

Psalms 10:12

Arise, O LORD! Lift up Your hand, O God! Do not forget the helpless.

Psalms 10:13

Why has the wicked man renounced God? He says to himself, “You will never call me to account.”

Ecclesiastes 8:11

When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.

Isaiah 5:18

Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of deceit and pull sin along with cart ropes,

Isaiah 5:19

to those who say, “Let Him hurry and hasten His work so that we may see it! Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel come so that we may know it!”

Isaiah 30:18

Therefore the LORD longs to be gracious to you; therefore He rises to show you compassion, for the LORD is a just God. Blessed are all who wait for Him.

Ezekiel 8:12

“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? For they are saying, ‘The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.’”

Ezekiel 9:9

He replied, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. The land is full of bloodshed, and the city is full of perversity. For they say, ‘The LORD has forsaken the land; the LORD does not see.’

Zephaniah 1:12

And at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish the men settled in complacency, who say to themselves, ‘The LORD will do nothing, either good or bad.’

2 Peter 3:3

Most importantly, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.

2 Peter 3:4

“Where is the promise of His coming?” they will ask. “Ever since our fathers fell asleep, everything continues as it has from the beginning of creation.”