Malachi 3:14

English Standard Version 2016

You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God. What is the profit of our keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning before the Lord of hosts?

Cross References

Isaiah 58:3

‘Why have we fasted, and you see it not? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you take no knowledge of it?’ Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure, and oppress all your workers.

Zephaniah 1:12

At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are complacent, those who say in their hearts, ‘The Lord will not do good, nor will he do ill.’

Job 35:3

that you ask, ‘What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?’

Joel 2:12

“Yet even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;

Job 34:9

For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should take delight in God.’

James 4:9

Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.

Job 22:17

They said to God, ‘Depart from us,’ and ‘What can the Almighty do to us?’

Isaiah 43:22

“Yet you did not call upon me, O Jacob; but you have been weary of me, O Israel!

Jeremiah 2:25

Keep your feet from going unshod and your throat from thirst. But you said, ‘It is hopeless, for I have loved foreigners, and after them I will go.’

Jeremiah 18:12

“But they say, ‘That is in vain! We will follow our own plans, and will every one act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’

Hosea 7:16

They return, but not upward; they are like a treacherous bow; their princes shall fall by the sword because of the insolence of their tongue. This shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.

Malachi 3:13

“Your words have been hard against me, says the Lord. But you say, ‘How have we spoken against you?’

Jeremiah 44:18

But since we left off making offerings to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have been consumed by the sword and by famine.”