Malachi 3:14 Cross References

Malachi 3:14

14: "You have said, `What's the use of serving God? What have we gained by obeying his commands or by trying to show the LORD Almighty that we are sorry for our sins?

Isaiah 58:3

  1. `We have fasted before you!' they say. `Why aren't you impressed? We have done much penance, and you don't even notice it!'"I will tell you why! It's because you are living for yourselves even while you are fasting. You keep right on oppressing your workers.

Psalms 73:8

  1. They scoff and speak only evil; in their pride they seek to crush others.
  2. They boast against the very heavens, and their words strut throughout the earth.
  3. And so the people are dismayed and confused, drinking in all their words.
  4. "Does God realize what is going on?" they ask. "Is the Most High even aware of what is happening?"
  5. Look at these arrogant people--enjoying a life of ease while their riches multiply.

James 4:9

  1. Let there be tears for the wrong things you have done. Let there be sorrow and deep grief. Let there be sadness instead of laughter, and gloom instead of joy.

Job 35:3

  1. Yet you also ask, `What's the use of living a righteous life? How will it benefit me?'

Zephaniah 1:12

  1. "I will search with lanterns in Jerusalem's darkest corners to find and punish those who sit contented in their sins, indifferent to the LORD, thinking he will do nothing at all to them.

Zechariah 7:3

  1. They were to ask this question of the prophets and of the priests at the Temple of the LORD Almighty: "Should we continue to mourn and fast each summer on the anniversary of the Temple's destruction, as we have done for so many years?"
  2. The LORD Almighty sent me this message:
  3. "Say to all your people and your priests, `During those seventy years of exile, when you fasted and mourned in the summer and at the festival in early autumn, was it really for me that you were fasting?
  4. And even now in your holy festivals, you don't think about me but only of pleasing yourselves.

Joel 2:12

  1. That is why the LORD says, "Turn to me now, while there is time! Give me your hearts. Come with fasting, weeping, and mourning.

Job 34:9

  1. He has even said, `Why waste time trying to please God?'

Job 22:17

  1. For they said to God, `Leave us alone! What can the Almighty do for us?'

Job 21:14

  1. All this, even though they say to God, `Go away. We want no part of you and your ways.
  2. Who is the Almighty, and why should we obey him? What good will it do us if we pray?'
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