Malachi 3:14

A Conservative Version

Ye have said, It is vain to serve God, and what profit is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked mournfully before LORD of hosts?

Cross References

Isaiah 58:3

Why have we fasted, [they say], and thou see not? We have afflicted our soul, and thou take no knowledge. Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact from all your laborers.

Zephaniah 1:12

And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their lees, who say in their heart, LORD will not do good, nor will he do evil.

Job 35:3

That thou said, What advantage will it be to thee? [And], What profit shall I have more than if I had sinned?

Joel 2:12

Yet even now, says LORD, turn ye to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.

Job 34:9

For thou should not say, There shall be no visitation to a man, [whereas] visitation [is] to him from LORD.

James 4:9

Be ye sorrowful, and mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into a downcast look.

Job 22:17

who said to God, Depart from us, and, What can the Almighty do for us?

Isaiah 43:22

Yet thou have not called upon me, O Jacob, but thou have been weary of me, O Israel.

Jeremiah 2:25

Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst. But thou said, It is in vain. No, for I have loved strangers, and after them I will go.

Jeremiah 18:12

But they say, It is in vain. For we will walk after our own devices, and we will do everyone according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.

Hosea 7:16

They return, but not to [him] on high. They are like a deceitful bow. Their rulers shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. This shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.

Malachi 3:13

Your words have been stout against me, says LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken against thee?

Jeremiah 44:18

But since we left off burning incense to the queen of heaven, and pouring out drink-offerings to her, we have lacked all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.