Malachi 3:14

You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His requirements and walking mournfully before the LORD of Hosts?

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

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?

In Context

13“Your words against Me have been harsh,” says the LORD. “Yet you ask, ‘What have we spoken against You?’

15So now we call the arrogant blessed. Not only do evildoers prosper, they even test God and escape.’”

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Cross References

Job 21:15Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’

Job 34:9For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight in God.’

Psalms 73:8They mock and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression.

Isaiah 58:3“Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we humbled ourselves, and You have not noticed?” “Behold, on the day of your fast, you do as you please, and you oppress all your workers.

Joel 2:12“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”

Zechariah 7:3by asking the priests of the house of the LORD of Hosts, as well as the prophets, “Should I weep and fast in the fifth month, as I have done these 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 →

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