Malachi 3:15

God's Word

So now we call arrogant people blessed. Not only are evildoers encouraged, they even test God and get away with it.’ ”

Cross References

Esther 5:10

However, Haman controlled himself. He went home and sent for his friends and his wife Zeresh.

Job 1:22

Through all this Job did not sin or blame God for doing anything wrong.

Job 12:6

⌞But⌟ robbers’ tents are prosperous, and there is security for those who provoke God, for those whose god is their power.

Job 21:30

On the day of disaster the wicked person is spared. On the day of ⌞God’s⌟ anger he is rescued.

Job 22:23

If you return to the Almighty, you will prosper. If you put wrongdoing out of your tent,

Psalm 10:3

The wicked person boasts about his selfish desires. He blesses robbers, but he curses the Lord.

Psalm 106:14

They had an unreasonable desire ⌞for food⌟ in the wilderness. In the desert they tested God.

Psalm 141:4

Do not let me be persuaded to do anything evil or to become involved with wickedness, with people who are troublemakers. Do not let me taste their delicacies.

Psalm 49:18

Even though he blesses himself while he is alive (and they praise you when you do well for yourself),

Psalm 58:2

No, you invent new crimes on earth, and your hands spread violence.

Psalm 73:12

Look how wicked they are! They never have a worry. They grow more and more wealthy.

Psalm 73:3

because I was envious of arrogant people when I saw the prosperity that wicked people enjoy.

Psalm 78:18

They deliberately tested God by demanding the food they craved.

Psalm 78:41

Again and again they tested God, and they pushed the Holy One of Israel to the limit.

Psalm 78:56

They tested God Most High and rebelled against him. They did not obey his written instructions.

Psalm 95:9

Your ancestors challenged me and tested me there, although they had seen what I had done.

Proverbs 12:12

A wicked person delights in setting a trap for ⌞other⌟ evil people, but the roots of righteous people produce ⌞fruit⌟.

Ecclesiastes 8:14

There is something being done on earth that is pointless. Righteous people suffer for what the wicked do, and wicked people get what the righteous deserve. I say that even this is pointless.

Isaiah 2:22

Stop trusting people. Their life is in their nostrils. How can they be worth anything?

Jeremiah 7:10

Then you stand in my presence in the house that is called by my name. You think that you’re safe to do all these disgusting things.

Daniel 4:30

The king thought, “Look how great Babylon is! I built the royal palace by my own impressive power and for my glorious honor.”

Daniel 4:37

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, will praise, honor, and give glory to the King of Heaven. Everything he does is true, his ways are right, and he can humiliate those who act arrogantly.

Daniel 6:16

So the king gave the order, and Daniel was brought to him and thrown into the lions’ den. The king told Daniel, “May your God, whom you always worship, save you!”

Malachi 2:17

You have tried the patience of the Lord with your words. But you ask, “How have we tried his patience?” When you say, “Everyone who does evil is considered good by the Lord. He is pleased with them,” or “Where is the God of justice?”

Malachi 4:1

“Certainly the day is coming! It will burn like a furnace. All arrogant people and all evildoers will be ⌞like⌟ straw. The day that is coming will burn them up completely,” says the Lord of Armies. “It won’t leave a single root or branch.

Acts 12:21

The appointed day came. Herod, wearing his royal clothes, sat on his throne and began making a speech to them.

Acts 5:9

Then Peter said to her, “How could you and your husband agree to test the Lord’s Spirit? Those who buried your husband are standing at the door, and they will carry you outside for burial.”

1 Corinthians 10:9

We shouldn’t put the Lord  to the test as some of them did. They were killed by snakes.

Hebrews 3:9

That is where your ancestors tested me,

1 Peter 5:5

Young people, in a similar way, place yourselves under the authority of spiritual leaders. Furthermore, all of you must serve each other with humility, because God opposes the arrogant but favors the humble.