Malachi 3:15

Modern English Version

And now we call the proud blessed, for those who do wickedness are built up; they even test God and escape.”

Cross References

Esther 5:10

Nevertheless, Haman restrained himself, and when he came to his home, he sent for his friends and for his wife Zeresh.

Job 1:22

In all this Job did not sin, and he did not accuse God of wrongdoing.

Job 12:6

The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, into whose hand they bring their own god.

Job 21:30

For the wicked are reserved for the day of destruction; they will be brought forth on the day of wrath.

Job 22:23

If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up; you will put away iniquity far from your tents.

Psalm 10:3

For the wicked boasts of his soul’s desire, and blesses the greedy and despises the Lord.

Psalm 106:14

but lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tested God in the desert.

Psalm 141:4

Let not my heart incline to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity; and let me not eat of their delicacies.

Psalm 49:18

Though while he lives he blesses himself — for men will praise you when you do well for yourself—

Psalm 58:2

No, in your heart you work wickedness; you deal out violence with your hands on earth.

Psalm 73:12

Behold, these are the wicked; always at ease, they increase in riches.

Psalm 73:3

For I was envious of the boastful when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Psalm 78:18

They tested God in their heart by asking for the food they craved.

Psalm 78:41

Again and again they tested God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

Psalm 78:56

Yet they tested and provoked the Most High God, and did not keep His testimonies,

Psalm 95:9

when your fathers tested Me; they tried Me, though they had seen My work.

Proverbs 12:12

The wicked covet the plunder of evil men, but the root of the righteous yields fruit.

Ecclesiastes 8:14

There is another vanity that takes place on earth: there are righteous people who are treated according to the deeds of the wicked, and there are wicked people who are treated according to the deeds of the righteous. I observed that this also is vanity.

Isaiah 2:22

Cease regarding man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for why should he be esteemed?

Jeremiah 7:10

and come and stand before Me in this house, which is called by My name, and say, “We are delivered,” so that you may do all these abominations?

Daniel 4:30

The king spoke, saying, “Is this not Babylon the Great that I myself have built as a royal residence by my mighty power and for the honor of my majesty?”

Daniel 4:37

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all His works are true and His ways just, and those who walk in pride He is able to abase.

Daniel 6:16

Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spoke and said to Daniel, “Your God whom you serve continually, He will deliver you.”

Malachi 2:17

You have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet you say, “How have we wearied Him?” When you say, “Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and He delights in them,” or, “Where is the God of justice?”

Malachi 4:1

Surely the day is coming, burning like an oven; all the proud, yes, all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming will burn them up, says the Lord of Hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.

Acts 12:21

On an appointed day, Herod, dressed in royal apparel, sat on his throne and gave a public speech to them.

Acts 5:9

Peter said to her, “How is it that you have agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.”

1 Corinthians 10:9

Neither let us test Christ, as some of them also tempted and were destroyed by serpents.

Hebrews 3:9

where your fathers tested Me and tried Me and saw My works for forty years.

1 Peter 5:5

Likewise you younger ones, submit yourselves to the elders. Yes, all of you be submissive one to another and clothe yourselves with humility, because “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”