Malachi 3:15 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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."

Malachi 3:15 Cross References

Malachi 4:1

For, behold, the day cometh, it burneth as a furnace; and all the proud, and all that work wickedness, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

Malachi 2:17

Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? In that ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or where is the God of judgement?

1 Peter 5:5

Likewise, ye younger, be subject unto the elder. Yea, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to serve one another: for God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.

Hebrews 3:9

Wherewith your fathers tempted me by proving me, And saw my works forty years.

Acts 12:21

And upon a set day Herod arrayed himself in royal apparel, and sat on the throne, and made an oration unto them.

Acts 5:9

But Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and they shall carry thee out.

Daniel 6:16

Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spake and said unto Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will deliver thee.

Daniel 4:37

Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways judgement: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.

Daniel 4:30

The king spake and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?

Jeremiah 7:10

and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered; that ye may do all these abominations.

Proverbs 12:12

The wicked desireth the net of evil men: But the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.

Psalm 106:14

But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, And tempted God in the desert.

Psalm 95:9

When your fathers tempted me, Proved me, and saw my work.

Psalm 78:56

Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, And kept not his testimonies;

Psalm 78:41

And they turned again and tempted God, And provoked the Holy One of Israel.

Psalm 78:18

And they tempted God in their heart By asking meat for their lust.

Psalm 73:12

Behold, these are the wicked; And, being alway at ease, they increase in riches

Psalm 49:18

Though while he lived he blessed his soul, And men praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself,

Psalm 10:3

For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, And the covetous renounceth, yea, contemneth the LORD.

Job 22:23

If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up; If thou put away unrighteousness far from thy tents.

Job 21:30

That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath?

Job 12:6

The tents of robbers prosper, And they that provoke God are secure; Into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.

Esther 5:10

Nevertheless Haman refrained himself, and went home; and he sent and fetched his friends and Zeresh his wife.

1 Corinthians 10:9

Neither let us tempt the Lord, as some of them tempted, and perished by the serpents.

Psalm 58:2

Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.

Psalm 141:4

Incline not my heart to any evil thing, To be occupied in deeds of wickedness With men that work iniquity: And let me not eat of their dainties.

Ecclesiastes 8:14

There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be righteous men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.

Isaiah 2:22

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?

Job 1:22

: In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God with foolishness.

Psalm 73:3

For I was envious at the arrogant, When I saw the prosperity of the wicked.