Malachi 3:14

American King James Version (1999)

You 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?

Cross References

Job 22:17

Which said to God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?

Job 34:9

For he has said, It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.

Job 35:3

For you said, What advantage will it be to you? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?

Isaiah 43:22

But you have not called on me, O Jacob; but you have been weary of me, O Israel.

Isaiah 58:3

Why have we fasted, say they, and you see not? why have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and exact all your labors.

Jeremiah 18:12

And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.

Jeremiah 2:25

Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst: but you said, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.

Jeremiah 44:18

But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.

Hosea 7:16

They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.

Joel 2:12

Therefore also now, said the LORD, turn you even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:

Zephaniah 1:12

And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil.

Malachi 3:13

Your words have been stout against me, said the LORD. Yet you say, What have we spoken so much against you?

James 4:9

Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.