Malachi 3:15

From now on we'll say that the proud are blessed. Evil people do well, and nothing happens when they dare God to punish them.”

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In The King James Version

And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.

In Context

14You have said, “What's the point of serving God? What benefit is there in keeping his commandments or going before the Lord Almighty with long faces?

16Then those who truly respected the Lord spoke to each other, and the Lord heard what they said. A scroll of remembrance was written in his presence of those who respected the Lord and paid attention to him.

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Cross References

Numbers 14:22not a single one of the those who saw my glory and the miracles I did in Egypt and in the desert—but provoked me and refused to obey me time and time again —

Job 1:22In all of this Job did not sin, nor blame God.

Job 21:7Why do the wicked continue to live, to grow old and increasingly powerful?

Job 22:23If you return to God you will be restored. If you renounce your sinful life

Psalms 49:18They congratulate themselves for all they possess—people always praise you when you do well—

Psalms 73:12Look at these wicked people! They don't have a care in the world, and they're always making money!

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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