Malachi 3:14
Ye have said, It is vain to serve God, and what profit is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked mournfully before LORD of hosts?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
13Your words have been stout against me, says LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken against thee?
Cross References
Job 21:15What is the Almighty that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray to him?
Job 34:9For thou should not say, There shall be no visitation to a man, [whereas] visitation [is] to him from LORD.
Psalms 73:8They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression. They speak loftily.
Isaiah 58:3Why have we fasted, [they say], and thou see not? We have afflicted our soul, and thou take no knowledge. Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact from all your laborers.
Joel 2:12Yet even now, says LORD, turn ye to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.
Zechariah 7:3[and] to speak to the priests of the house of LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?
Matthew Henry on Malachi 3:14-18
Wicked Conversation Reproved; Evil Maxims of Sinners; Pious Converse Commended; Promises to the Godly. ( b. c. 400.) 13 Your words have been stout against me, saith the Lord . Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee? 14 Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts? 15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered. 16 Then… Read the whole commentary →