Malachi 3:14

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Here is what you have said: “It's foolish to serve the LORD God All-Powerful. What do we get for obeying him and from going around looking sad?

Cross References

Job 22:17

They rejected God All-Powerful, feeling he was helpless,

Job 34:9

because he has said, “It doesn't pay to please God.”

Job 35:3

Don't you honestly believe it pays to obey him?

Isaiah 43:22

I, the LORD, said to Israel: You have become weary, but not from worshipping me.

Isaiah 58:3

You wonder why the LORD pays no attention when you go without eating and act humble. But on those same days that you give up eating, you think only of yourselves and abuse your workers.

Jeremiah 18:12

But I know you won't listen. You might as well answer, “We don't care what you say. We have made plans to sin, and we are going to be stubborn and do what we want!”

Jeremiah 2:25

Your shoes are worn out, and your throat is parched from running here and there to worship foreign gods. “Stop!” I shouted, but you replied, “No! I love those gods too much.”

Jeremiah 44:18

But since the time we stopped burning incense and offering wine sacrifices to her, we have been dying from war and hunger.

Hosea 7:16

and refuse to obey. They are more useless than a crooked arrow. Their leaders will die in war for saying foolish things. Egyptians will laugh at them.

Joel 2:12

The LORD said: It isn't too late. You can still return to me with all your heart. Start crying and mourning! Go without eating.

Zephaniah 1:12

I'll search Jerusalem with lamps and punish those people who sit there unworried while thinking, “The LORD won't do anything, good or bad.”

Malachi 3:13

You have said horrible things about me, and yet you ask, “What have we said?”

James 4:9

Be sad and sorry and weep. Stop laughing and start crying. Be gloomy instead of glad.