Malachi 3:14

Modern English Version

You said, “It is vain to serve God. What profit is it that we have kept His ordinance, and that we have walked as mourners before the Lord of Hosts?

Cross References

Job 22:17

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

Job 34:9

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

Job 35:3

For you said, ‘What advantage will it be to me? What profit will I have if I am cleansed from my sin?’

Isaiah 43:22

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

Isaiah 58:3

“Why have we fasted and You do not see? Why have we humbled ourselves and You take no notice?” Behold, in the day of your fast you find your desire and are exacting on all your laborers.

Jeremiah 18:12

But they say, “There is no hope! But we will walk after our own devices, and each of us will do according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.”

Jeremiah 2:25

Withhold your foot from being unshod and your throat from thirst. But you said, “There is no hope. No! For I have loved strangers, and after them I will go.”

Jeremiah 44:18

But since we left off burning incense to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have been in want of all things and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.”

Hosea 7:16

They return, but not to the Most High. They are like a loose 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, declares the Lord, return to Me with all your heart, and with fasting and with weeping and with mourning.

Zephaniah 1:12

At that time I will search Jerusalem 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, nor will He do evil.”

Malachi 3:13

Your words have been hard against Me, says the Lord. Yet you say, “What have we spoken against You?”

James 4:9

Grieve and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to dejection.