Malachi 3:13
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)““Your words against Me have been harsh,” says the LORD. “Yet you ask, ‘What have we spoken against You?’”
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““Your words against Me have been harsh,” says the LORD. “Yet you ask, ‘What have we spoken against You?’”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Your words have been stout against me, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?”
King James Version · Public Domain“Your words have been stout against me, saith Jehovah. Yet ye say, What have we spoken against thee?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Hard against Me have been your words, Said Jehovah, and ye have said: `What have we spoken against Thee?'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Malachi 3:13 — 18 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 5:2But Pharaoh replied, “Who is the LORD that I should obey His voice and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and I will not let Israel go.”
- 2 Chronicles 32:14Who among all the gods of these nations that my fathers devoted to destruction has been able to deliver his people from my hand? How then can your God deliver you from my hand?
- Job 15:13as you turn your spirit against God and pour such words from your mouth?
- Job 34:7What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?
- Job 40:8Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?
- Psalms 10:11He says to himself, “God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees.”
- Isaiah 3:8For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen because they spoke and acted against the LORD, defying His glorious presence.
- Isaiah 5:19to those who say, “Let Him hurry and hasten His work so that we may see it! Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel come so that we may know it!”
- Isaiah 28:14Therefore hear the word of the LORD, O scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem.
- Isaiah 37:23Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!
- Jeremiah 8:12Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse, says the LORD.
- Ezekiel 35:13You boasted against Me with your mouth and multiplied your words against Me. I heard it Myself!
- Malachi 1:6“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised Your name?’
- Malachi 2:14Yet you ask, “Why?” It is because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have broken faith, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.
- Malachi 2:17You have wearied the LORD with your words; yet you ask, “How have we wearied Him?” By saying, “All who do evil are good in the sight of the LORD, and in them He delights,” or, “Where is the God of justice?”
- Malachi 3:8Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you ask, ‘How do we rob You?’ In tithes and offerings.
- Romans 9:20But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”
- 2 Thessalonians 2:4He will oppose and exalt himself above every so-called god or object of worship. So he will seat himself in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.
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