Malachi 3:15 Cross References
Malachi 3:15
15: From now on we will say, "Blessed are the arrogant." For those who do evil get rich, and those who dare God to punish them go free of harm.'"
Malachi 4:1
- The LORD Almighty says, "The day of judgment is coming, burning like a furnace. The arrogant and the wicked will be burned up like straw on that day. They will be consumed like a tree--roots and all.
Psalms 49:18
- In this life they consider themselves fortunate, and the world loudly applauds their success.
Malachi 2:17
- You have wearied the LORD with your words. "Wearied him?" you ask. "How have we wearied him?" You have wearied him by suggesting that the LORD favors evildoers since he does not punish them. You have wearied him by asking, "Where is the God of justice?"
Esther 5:10
- However, he restrained himself and went on home. Then he gathered together his friends and Zeresh, his wife,
Proverbs 12:12
- Thieves are jealous of each other's loot, while the godly bear their own fruit.
Acts 12:21
- and an appointment with Herod was granted. When the day arrived, Herod put on his royal robes, sat on his throne, and made a speech to them.
Psalms 95:9
- For there your ancestors tried my patience; they courted my wrath though they had seen my many miracles.
Job 21:30
- Evil people are spared in times of calamity and are allowed to escape.
Jeremiah 12:1
- LORD, you always give me justice when I bring a case before you. Now let me bring you this complaint: Why are the wicked so prosperous? Why are evil people so happy?
- You have planted them, and they have taken root and prospered. Your name is on their lips, but in their hearts they give you no credit at all.
Psalms 10:3
- For they brag about their evil desires; they praise the greedy and curse the LORD.
Psalms 73:12
- Look at these arrogant people--enjoying a life of ease while their riches multiply.
Jeremiah 7:10
- and then come here and stand before me in my Temple and chant, "We are safe!"--only to go right back to all those evils again?
Habakkuk 1:13
- You are perfectly just in this. But will you, who cannot allow sin in any form, stand idly by while they swallow us up? Should you be silent while the wicked destroy people who are more righteous than they?
- Are we but fish to be caught and killed? Are we but creeping things that have no leader to defend them from their enemies?
- Must we be strung up on their hooks and dragged out in their nets while they rejoice?
- Then they will worship their nets and burn incense in front of them. "These nets are the gods who have made us rich!" they will claim.
- Will you let them get away with this forever? Will they succeed forever in their heartless conquests?
Psalms 78:56
- Yet though he did all this for them, they continued to test his patience. They rebelled against the Most High and refused to follow his decrees.
Job 22:23
- If you return to the Almighty and clean up your life, you will be restored.
Acts 5:9
- And Peter said, "How could the two of you even think of doing a thing like this--conspiring together to test the Spirit of the Lord? Just outside that door are the young men who buried your husband, and they will carry you out, too."
Hebrews 3:9
- There your ancestors tried my patience, even though they saw my miracles for forty years.
Psalms 78:18
- They willfully tested God in their hearts, demanding the foods they craved.
Daniel 6:16
- So at last the king gave orders for Daniel to be arrested and thrown into the den of lions. The king said to him, "May your God, whom you worship continually, rescue you."
Job 12:6
- But even robbers are left in peace, and those who provoke God--and God has them in his power--live in safety!
Psalms 78:41
- Again and again they tested God's patience and frustrated the Holy One of Israel.
Matthew 4:6
- and said, "If you are the Son of God, jump off! For the Scriptures say, 'He orders his angels to protect you. And they will hold you with their hands to keep you from striking your foot on a stone.'"
- Jesus responded, "The Scriptures also say, 'Do not test the Lord your God.'"
Daniel 5:20
- But when his heart and mind were hardened with pride, he was brought down from his royal throne and stripped of his glory.
- He was driven from human society. He was given the mind of an animal, and he lived among the wild donkeys. He ate grass like a cow, and he was drenched with the dew of heaven, until he learned that the Most High God rules the kingdoms of the world and appoints anyone he desires to rule over them.
- "You are his successor, O Belshazzar, and you knew all this, yet you have not humbled yourself.
- For you have defied the Lord of heaven and have had these cups from his Temple brought before you. You and your nobles and your wives and concubines have been drinking wine from them while praising gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone--gods that neither see nor hear nor know anything at all. But you have not honored the God who gives you the breath of life and controls your destiny!
- So God has sent this hand to write a message.
Daniel 4:37
- "Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and glorify and honor the King of heaven. All his acts are just and true, and he is able to humble those who are proud."
Ecclesiastes 9:1
- This, too, I carefully explored: Even though the actions of godly and wise people are in God's hands, no one knows whether or not God will show them favor in this life.
- The same destiny ultimately awaits everyone, whether they are righteous or wicked, good or bad, ceremonially clean or unclean, religious or irreligious. Good people receive the same treatment as sinners, and people who take oaths are treated like people who don't.
Psalms 106:14
- In the wilderness, their desires ran wild, testing God's patience in that dry land.
1 Peter 5:5
- You younger men, accept the authority of the elders. And all of you, serve each other in humility, for "God sets himself against the proud, but he shows favor to the humble."
Numbers 14:22
- not one of these people will ever enter that land. They have seen my glorious presence and the miraculous signs I performed both in Egypt and in the wilderness, but again and again they tested me by refusing to listen.
- They will never even see the land I swore to give their ancestors. None of those who have treated me with contempt will enter it.
Job 21:7
- "The truth is that the wicked live to a good old age. They grow old and wealthy.
- They live to see their children grow to maturity, and they enjoy their grandchildren.
- Their homes are safe from every fear, and God does not punish them.
- Their bulls never fail to breed. Their cows bear calves without miscarriage.
- Their children skip about like lambs in a flock of sheep.
Daniel 4:30
- As he looked out across the city, he said, `Just look at this great city of Babylon! I, by my own mighty power, have built this beautiful city as my royal residence and as an expression of my royal splendor.'
1 Corinthians 10:9
- Nor should we put Christ to the test, as some of them did and then died from snakebites.