Malachi 3:14

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

You 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 the LORD of Armies?

Cross References

Job 22:17

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

Job 34:9

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

Job 35:3

That you ask, 'What advantage will it be to you? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?'

Isaiah 43:22

Yet you have not called on me, Ya`akov; but you have been weary of me, Yisra'el.

Isaiah 58:3

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

Jeremiah 18:12

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

Jeremiah 2:25

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

Jeremiah 44:18

But since we left off burning incense to the queen of the sky, and pouring 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 Elyon. They are like a faulty bow. Their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.

Joel 2:12

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

Zephaniah 1:12

It will happen at that time, that I will search Yerushalayim with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who 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,* says the LORD. *Yet you say, 'What have we spoken against you?'

James 4:9

Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.