Malachi 3:14

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

You have said, “It is vain to serve God. What do we profit by keeping his command or by going about as mourners before the Lord of hosts?

Cross References

Job 22:17

They said to God, ‘Leave us alone,’ and ‘What can the Almighty do to us?’

Job 34:9

For he has said, ‘It profits one nothing to take delight in God.’

Job 35:3

If you ask, ‘What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?’

Isaiah 43:22

Yet you did not call upon me, O Jacob; but you have been weary of me, O Israel!

Isaiah 58:3

“Why do we fast, but you do not see? Why humble ourselves, but you do not notice?” Look, you serve your own interest on your fast day and oppress all your workers.

Jeremiah 18:12

But they say, “It is no use! We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of our evil will.”

Jeremiah 2:25

Keep your feet from going bare and your throat from thirst. But you said, “It is no use, for I have loved strangers, and after them I will go.”

Jeremiah 44:18

But from the time we stopped making offerings to the queen of heaven and pouring out libations to her, we have lacked everything and have perished by the sword and by famine.”

Hosea 7:16

They turn to that which does not profit; they have become like a defective bow; their officials shall fall by the sword because of the rage of their tongue. So much for their babbling in the land of Egypt.

Joel 2:12

Yet even now, says the Lord, return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;

Zephaniah 1:12

At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the people who settle like dregs in wine, those who say in their hearts, “The Lord will not do good, nor will he do harm.”

Malachi 3:13

You have spoken harsh words against me, says the Lord. Yet you say, “How have we spoken against you?”

James 4:9

Lament and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy into dejection.