Malachi 3:15
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“So now we call the arrogant blessed. Not only do evildoers prosper, they even test God and escape.’””
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“So now we call the arrogant blessed. Not only do evildoers prosper, they even test God and escape.’””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.”
King James Version · Public Domain“and now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and escape.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And now, we are declaring the proud happy, Yea, built up have been those doing wickedness, Yea they have tempted God, and escape.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Malachi 3:15 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 14:22not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times—
- Esther 5:10Nevertheless, Haman restrained himself and went home. And calling for his friends and his wife Zeresh,
- Job 1:22In all this, Job did not sin or charge God with wrongdoing.
- Job 12:6The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure— those who carry their god in their hands.
- Job 21:7Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?
- Job 21:30Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, delivered from the day of wrath.
- Job 22:23If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove injustice from your tents
- Psalms 10:3For the wicked man boasts in the cravings of his heart; he blesses the greedy and reviles the LORD.
- Psalms 49:18Though in his lifetime he blesses his soul— and men praise you when you prosper—
- Psalms 73:3For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
- Psalms 73:12Behold, these are the wicked— always carefree as they increase their wealth.
- Psalms 78:18They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved.
- Psalms 78:41Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
- Psalms 78:56But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.
- Psalms 95:9where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work.
- Psalms 106:14They craved intensely in the wilderness and tested God in the desert.
- Proverbs 12:12The wicked desire the plunder of evil men, but the root of the righteous flourishes.
- Ecclesiastes 8:14There is a futility that is done on the earth: There are righteous men who get what the actions of the wicked deserve, and there are wicked men who get what the actions of the righteous deserve. I say that this too is futile.
- Ecclesiastes 9:1So I took all this to heart and concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their deeds, are in God’s hands. Man does not know what lies ahead, whether love or hate.
- Jeremiah 7:10and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue with all these abominations’?
- Jeremiah 12:1Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?
- Daniel 4:30the king exclaimed, “Is this not Babylon the Great, which I myself have built by the might of my power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?”
- Daniel 4:37Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, for all His works are true and all His ways are just. And He is able to humble those who walk in pride.
- Daniel 5:20But when his heart became arrogant and his spirit was hardened with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne, and his glory was taken from him.
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