Malachi 3:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁵ Now we count the arrogant happy; evildoers not only prosper, but when they put God to the test they escape.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ And now we consider the proud and arrogant to be happy and favored; evildoers are exalted and prosper; yes, and when they test God, they escape [unpunished].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ and now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and escape.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ So now we consider the arrogant fortunate. Moreover, those doing evil are built up; they test God and escape.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ Therefore, we now call the arrogant blessed, as if those who work impiety have been built up, and as if they have tempted God and been saved."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ Wherefore now we call the proud people happy, for they that work wickedness are built up, and they have tempted God and are preserved.

Malachi 3:15 Cross References

Esther 5:10

nevertheless, Haman restrained himself and went home. Then he sent and called for his friends and his wife Zeresh,

Job 1:22

In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrongdoing.

Job 12:6

The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their hands.

Job 21:30

that the wicked are spared in the day of calamity and are rescued in the day of wrath?

Job 22:23

If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored, if you remove unrighteousness from your tents,

Psalm 10:3

For the wicked boast of the desires of their heart; those greedy for gain curse and renounce the Lord.

Psalm 106:14

But they had a wanton craving in the wilderness and put God to the test in the desert;

Psalm 141:4

Do not turn my heart to any evil, to busy myself with wicked deeds in company with those who work iniquity; do not let me eat of their delicacies.

Psalm 49:18

Though in their lifetime they count themselves happy —for you are praised when you do well for yourself—

Psalm 58:2

No, in your hearts you devise wrongs; your hands deal out violence on earth.

Psalm 73:12

Such are the wicked; always at ease, they increase in riches.

Psalm 73:3

For I was envious of the arrogant; I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Psalm 78:18

They tested God in their heart by demanding the food they craved.

Psalm 78:41

They tested God again and again and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

Psalm 78:56

Yet they tested the Most High God and rebelled against him. They did not observe his decrees

Psalm 95:9

when your ancestors tested me and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work.

Proverbs 12:12

The wicked covet the proceeds of wickedness, but the root of the righteous bears fruit.

Ecclesiastes 8:14

There is a vanity that takes place on earth, that there are righteous people who are treated according to the conduct of the wicked and wicked people who are treated according to the conduct of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

Isaiah 2:22

[[Turn away from mortals, who have only breath in their nostrils, for of what account are they?]]

Jeremiah 7:10

and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, “We are safe!”—only to go on doing all these abominations?

Daniel 4:30

and the king said, “Is this not magnificent Babylon, which I have built as a royal capital by my mighty power and for my glorious majesty?”

Daniel 4:37

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are truth, and his ways are justice; he is able to bring low those who walk in pride.

Daniel 6:16

Then the king gave the command, and Daniel was brought and thrown into the den of lions. The king said to Daniel, “May your God, whom you faithfully serve, deliver you!”

Malachi 2:17

You have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet you say, “How have we wearied him?” By saying, “All who do evil are good in the sight of the Lord, and he delights in them.” Or by asking, “Where is the God of justice?”

Malachi 4:1

See, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble; the day that comes shall burn them up, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.

Acts 12:21

On an appointed day Herod put on his royal robes, took his seat on the platform, and delivered a public address to them.

Acts 5:9

Then Peter said to her, “How is it that you have agreed together to put the Spirit of the Lord to the test? Look, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.”

1 Corinthians 10:9

We must not put Christ to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by serpents.

Hebrews 3:9

where your ancestors put me to the test, though they had seen my works

1 Peter 5:5

In the same way, you who are younger must be subject to the elders. And all of you must clothe yourselves with humility in your dealings with one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”