Malachi 3:14

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God. What is the good of our keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning 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 take delight in God.’

Job 35:3

that 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 have we fasted, and thou seest it not? Why have we humbled ourselves, and thou takest no knowledge of it?’ Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure, and oppress all your workers.

Jeremiah 18:12

“But they say, ‘That is in vain! We will follow our own plans, and will every one act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’

Jeremiah 2:25

Keep your feet from going unshod and your throat from thirst. But you said, ‘It is hopeless, 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 libations to her, we have lacked everything and have been consumed by the sword and by famine.”

Hosea 7:16

They turn to Baal; they are like a treacherous bow, their princes shall fall by the sword because of the insolence of their tongue. This shall be their derision 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 men who are thickening upon their lees, those who say in their hearts, ‘The Lord will not do good, nor will he do ill.’

Malachi 3:13

“Your words have been stout against me, says the Lord. Yet you say, ‘How have we spoken against thee?’

James 4:9

Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to dejection.