Malachi 3:15

And now we pronounce strangers blessed; and all they who act unlawfully are built up; and they have resisted God, and yet have been delivered.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

14Ye said, He that serves God labors in vain: and what have we gained in that we have kept his ordinances, and in that we have walked as suppliants before the face of the Lord Almighty?

16Thus spoke they that feared the Lord, every one to his neighbor: and the Lord gave heed, and hearkened, and he wrote a book of remembrance before him for them that feared the Lord and reverenced his name.

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Cross References

Numbers 14:22For all the men who see my glory, and the signs which I wrought in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and have tempted me this tenth time, and have not hearkened to my voice,

Job 1:22In all these events that befell him 1 Job sinned not at all before the Lord, 1 And did not impute folly to God.

Job 21:7Wherefore do the ungodly live, 1 And grow old even in wealth? 1

Job 22:23And if thou shalt turn and humble thyself before the Lord, 1 Thou hast thus removed unrighteousness far from thy habitation. 1

Psalms 49:18If thou sawest a thief, thou rannest along with him, 1 And hast cast in thy lot with adulterers. 1

Psalms 73:12But God is our King of old; 1 He has wrought salvation in the midst of the earth. 1

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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