Malachi 3:14
Ye say, It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we keep his charge, and that we walk mournfully before Jehovah of hosts?
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Job 21:15What is the Almighty that we should serve him? and what are we profited if we pray unto him?
Job 34:9For he hath said, It profiteth not a man if he delight himself in God.
Psalms 73:8They mock and speak wickedly of oppression, they speak loftily:
Isaiah 58:3Wherefore have we fasted, and thou seest not; have afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find what pleaseth [you], and exact all your labours.
Joel 2:12Yet even now, saith Jehovah, turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning;
Zechariah 7:3[and] to speak unto the priests that were in the house of Jehovah of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done now 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 →