Malachi 3:14

Malachi chapter 3 · verse 14 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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?

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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?

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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?

Context

v.13Your words have been stout against me, saith Jehovah. Yet ye say, What have we spoken against thee?

v.14This passage

v.15and now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and escape.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

James 4:9
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
Psalms 73:8
They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression: They speak loftily.
Zechariah 7:3
and to speak unto the priests of the house of Jehovah of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?
Job 35:3
That thou sayest, What advantage will it be unto thee? And, What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?
Job 22:17
Who said unto God, Depart from us; And, What can the Almighty do for us?
Isaiah 58:3
Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find your own pleasure, and exact all your labors.