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Malachi 3:15

Malachi chapter 3 · verse 15 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.14Ye 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?

v.15This passage

v.16Then they that feared Jehovah spake one with another; and Jehovah hearkened, and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before him, for them that feared Jehovah, and that thought upon his name.

Cross references

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

  • Malachi 4:1

    For, behold, the day cometh, it burneth as a furnace; and all the proud, and all that work wickedness, shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith Jehovah of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

  • Jeremiah 12:1

    Righteous art thou, O Jehovah, when I contend with thee; yet would I reason the cause with thee: wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they at ease that deal very treacherously?

  • Acts 12:21

    And upon a set day Herod arrayed himself in royal apparel, and sat on the throne, and made an oration unto them.

  • Matthew 4:6

    and saith unto him, If thou art the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and, On their hands they shall bear thee up, Lest haply thou dash thy foot against a stone.

  • Jeremiah 7:10

    and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered; that ye may do all these abominations?

  • Psalms 49:18

    Though while he lived he blessed his soul (And men praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself),