Malachi 3:15

New Century Version

So we say that proud people are happy. Evil people succeed. They challenge God and get away with it.’ ”

Cross References

Esther 5:10

But he controlled his anger and went home. Then Haman called together his friends and his wife, Zeresh.

Job 1:22

In all this Job did not sin or blame God.

Job 12:6

The tents of robbers are not bothered, and those who make God angry are safe. They have their god in their pocket.

Job 21:30

On the day of God’s anger and punishment, it is the wicked who are spared.

Job 22:23

If you return to the Almighty, you will be blessed again. So remove evil from your house.

Psalm 10:3

They brag about the things they want. They bless the greedy but hate the Lord.

Psalm 106:14

They became greedy for food in the desert, and they tested God there.

Psalm 141:4

Take away my desire to do evil or to join others in doing wrong. Don’t let me eat tasty food with those who do evil.

Psalm 49:18

Even though they were praised when they were alive— and people may praise you when you succeed—

Psalm 58:2

No, in your heart you plan evil; you think up violent crimes in the land.

Psalm 73:12

These people are wicked, always at ease, and getting richer.

Psalm 73:3

because I was jealous of proud people. I saw wicked people doing well.

Psalm 78:18

They decided to test God by asking for the food they wanted.

Psalm 78:41

Again and again they tested God and brought pain to the Holy One of Israel.

Psalm 78:56

But they tested God and turned against God Most High; they did not keep his rules.

Psalm 95:9

There your ancestors tested me and tried me even though they saw what I did.

Proverbs 12:12

The wicked want what other evil people have stolen, but good people want to give what they have to others.

Ecclesiastes 8:14

Sometimes something useless happens on earth. Bad things happen to good people, and good things happen to bad people. I say that this is also useless.

Isaiah 2:22

You should stop trusting in people to save you, because people are only human; they aren’t able to help you.

Jeremiah 7:10

If you do that, do you think you can come before me and stand in this place where I have chosen to be worshiped? Do you think you can say, “We are safe!” when you do all these hateful things?

Daniel 4:30

he said, “I have built this great Babylon as my royal home. I built it by my power to show my glory and my majesty.”

Daniel 4:37

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, give praise and honor and glory to the King of heaven. Everything he does is right and fair, and he is able to make proud people humble.

Daniel 6:16

So King Darius gave the order, and Daniel was brought in and thrown into the lions’ den. The king said to Daniel, “May the God you serve all the time save you!”

Malachi 2:17

You have tired the Lord with your words. You ask, “How have we tired him?” You did it by saying, “The Lord thinks anyone who does evil is good, and he is pleased with them.” Or you asked, “Where is the God who is fair?”

Malachi 4:1

“There is a day coming that will burn like a hot furnace, and all the proud and evil people will be like straw. On that day they will be completely burned up so that not a root or branch will be left,” says the Lord All-Powerful.

Acts 12:21

On a chosen day Herod put on his royal robes, sat on his throne, and made a speech to the people.

Acts 5:9

Peter said to her, “Why did you and your husband agree to test the Spirit of the Lord? Look! The men who buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.”

1 Corinthians 10:9

We must not test Christ as some of them did; they were killed by snakes.

Hebrews 3:9

There your ancestors tried me and tested me and saw the things I did for forty years.

1 Peter 5:5

In the same way, younger people should be willing to be under older people. And all of you should be very humble with each other. “God is against the proud, but he gives grace to the humble.”