Malachi 3:14

Modern King James Version

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 as mourners before Jehovah of Hosts?

Cross References

Isaiah 58:3

They say, Why have we fasted, and You do not see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and You take no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and crush all your laborers.

Zephaniah 1:12

And it shall be in that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and punish the men who are settled on their lees; who say in their heart, Jehovah will not do good, nor will He do evil.

Job 35:3

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

Joel 2:12

Yet even now, says Jehovah, turn to Me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.

Job 34:9

For he has said, It profits a man nothing when he is accepted with God.

James 4:9

Be afflicted, and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to heaviness.

Job 22:17

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

Isaiah 43:22

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

Jeremiah 2:25

Withhold your foot from being bare, 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 18:12

And they said, There is no hope; but we will walk after our own ways, and we will each one do according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.

Hosea 7:16

They return, but not to the Most High. They are like a deceitful bow; their rulers shall fall by the sword from the rage of their tongue. This shall be their scorn in the land of Egypt.

Malachi 3:13

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

Jeremiah 44:18

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