Malachi 3:14
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“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?”
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“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 · Public Domain (CC0)“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?”
King James Version · Public Domain“Ye have said, It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked mournfully before Jehovah of hosts?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Ye have said, `A vain thing to serve God! And what gain when we kept His charge? And when we have gone in black, Because of Jehovah of Hosts?”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Malachi 3:14 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 21:14Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.
- Job 21:15Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’
- Job 22:17They said to God, ‘Depart from us. What can the Almighty do to us?’
- Job 34:9For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight in God.’
- Job 35:3For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’
- Psalms 73:8They mock and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression.
- Psalms 73:13Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure; in innocence I have washed my hands.
- 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.
- Jeremiah 44:18But from the time we stopped burning incense to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have been perishing by sword and famine.”
- Joel 2:12“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”
- Zephaniah 1:12And at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish the men settled in complacency, who say to themselves, ‘The LORD will do nothing, either good or bad.’
- 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?”
- James 4:9Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
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