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Malachi 3:14
Malachi 3:14 is verse 14 of Malachi chapter 3, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
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?
King James Version
Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?
World English Bible
You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God,’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?
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Malachi 3:12–16 · Berean Standard Bible
12 “Then all the nations will call you blessed, for you will be a land of delight,” says the LORD of Hosts.
13 “Your words against Me have been harsh,” says the LORD. “Yet you ask, ‘What have we spoken against You?’
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?
15 So now we call the arrogant blessed. Not only do evildoers prosper, they even test God and escape.’”
16 At that time those who feared the LORD spoke with one another, and the LORD listened and heard them. So a scroll of remembrance was written before Him regarding those who feared the LORD and honored His name.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 21:14Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.
Job 21:15Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’
Job 22:17They said to God, ‘Depart from us. What can the Almighty do to us?’
Job 34:9For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight in God.’
Job 35:3For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’
Psalms 73:8They mock and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression.
Psalms 73:9They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongues strut across the earth.
Psalms 73:10So their people return to this place and drink up waters in abundance.
Psalms 73:11The wicked say, “How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge?”
Psalms 73:12Behold, these are the wicked— always carefree as they increase their wealth.
Psalms 73:13Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure; in innocence I have washed my hands.
Isaiah 58:3“Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we humbled ourselves, and You have not noticed?” “Behold, on the day of your fast, you do as you please, and you oppress all your workers.
Zephaniah 1:12And 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.’
Joel 2:12“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”
Zechariah 7:3by asking the priests of the house of the LORD of Hosts, as well as the prophets, “Should I weep and fast in the fifth month, as I have done these many years?”
Zechariah 7:4Then the word of the LORD of Hosts came to me, saying,
Zechariah 7:5“Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted?
Zechariah 7:6And when you were eating and drinking, were you not doing so simply for yourselves?
James 4:9Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.