Malachi 3:14

You have said, ‘It is useless to serve God, and what do we gain from the Lord of hosts by keeping his commands, and walking mournfully in funeral garb before him?

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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“You have said terrible things about me,” says the Lord. “You ask, ‘What have we said about you?’

15So now we call the proud happy, evildoers thrive: they dare God and escape unharmed.’”

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Cross References

Psalms 73:8Their speech is mocking and evil, condescending and crooked their speech.

Joel 2:12But now this is the message of the Lord: Turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting and weeping and mourning,

Zechariah 7:3and to ask the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts, and the prophets “Should I continue to mourn in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done for 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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