Malachi 3:14

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

You have said, It is vanity to serve God. And, What unjust profit is it that we have kept His charge, and that we have walked as mourners before Jehovah of Hosts?

Cross References

Job 22:17

the ones saying to God, Depart from us; and, What can the Almighty do to them?

Job 34:9

For he has said, It is no benefit for a man when he is accepted with God.

Job 35:3

For you say, What will it benefit you? What shall I profit more than if I had sinned?

Isaiah 43:22

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

Isaiah 58:3

They say, Why have we fasted, and You did not see? We have afflicted our soul, and You did not know. Behold, on the day of your fast you find pleasure; and you drive all your laborers hard.

Jeremiah 18:12

But they say, It is hopeless. For we will walk after our own thoughts, and we will each man do according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.

Jeremiah 2:25

Withhold your foot from being bare and your throat from thirst. But you said, It is hopeless! No! For I love strangers, and after them I will go.

Jeremiah 44:18

But when we stopped burning incense to the queen of the heavens, and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked all things, and have been devoured by the sword and by the famine.

Hosea 7:16

They turn not to the Most High. They are like a treacherous bow. Their rulers shall fall by the sword from the rage of the tongue. This shall be their scorn in the land of Egypt.

Joel 2:12

Yet even now turn to Me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with wailing, a statement of Jehovah.

Zephaniah 1:12

And it shall be in that time, I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and call to account the men being settled on their lees; who say in their heart, Jehovah will not do good, and not will He do evil.

Malachi 3:13

Your words have been strong against Me, says Jehovah. But you say, What have we spoken against you?

James 4:9

Be distressed, and mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy into shame.