Malachi 3:14

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Ye haue saide: it is but vayne to serue God, and what profite is it that we haue kept his commaundement, & that we haue walked humbly before the face of the Lorde of hoastes?

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 58:3 : 3 Wherefore fast we say they and thou seest it not? we put our liues to straitnesse, and thou regardest it not?
  • Zeph 1:12 : 12 At the same time will I searche Hierusalem with lanternes, and visite them that continue in their dregges, and say in their heartes, Tush, the Lorde will do neither good nor euyll.
  • Zech 7:3-6 : 3 And that they shoulde speake vnto the priestes which were in the house of the Lorde of hoastes, and to the prophetes, saying: should I wepe in the fifth moneth, & abstayne as I haue done nowe certaine yeres? 4 Then came the worde of the Lorde of hoastes vnto me, saying: 5 Speake vnto al the people of the land, and to the priestes, & say: When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth & seuenth moneth now this threescore & ten yeres, did ye fast vnto me? 6 When ye did eate also & drincke, did ye not eate & drincke for your owne selues?
  • Jas 4:9 : 9 Suffer afflictions, and mourne, and weepe: Let your laughter be turned to mournyng, and your ioy to heauinesse.
  • Joel 2:12 : 12 But nowe saith ye Lord, turne you vnto me with all your heartes, with fasting, with weepyng, and with mournyng.
  • Job 21:14-15 : 14 They say also vnto God: Go from vs, we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes. 15 Who is the almightie that we should serue him? And what profite should we haue if we should pray vnto him?
  • Job 22:17 : 17 Whiche sayd vnto God, Go from vs: and asked what the almightie coulde do for them?
  • Job 34:9 : 9 For he hath sayde, It profiteth a man nothing that he shoulde walke with God.
  • Job 35:3 : 3 For thou sayest: what aduauntage wyll it be vnto thee, and what profite shall I haue of my sinne?
  • Ps 73:8-9 : 8 They make other dissolute, they speake oppression with iniurie: they talke proudely and presumptuously. 9 For they stretch foorth their mouth vnto the heauen: and their tongue goeth through the worlde. 10 Therfore God his people turneth thither: and there is drawen vnto them waters in a full cuppe. 11 And they say, howe shoulde God perceaue it? is there knowledge in the most hyghest? 12 Lo these vngodly and fortunate in the worlde: do possesse riches. 13 Truely I haue cleansed my heart in vayne: and wasshed my handes in innocencie.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Mal 3:13
    84%

    13Your wordes haue ben stout against me saith the lorde: and you saide, Wherein haue we spoken against thee?

  • Mal 2:17
    79%

    17Ye haue weeryed the Lord with your wordes, and you haue sayde, Wherein haue we weeried him? Whylest you say, Euery one that doth euil, is good in the sight of the Lorde, and he is pleased in them: or where is the God of iudgement?

  • Mal 1:12-14
    3 verses
    78%

    12But ye haue polluted it, in that ye say, The table of the Lord is polluted, & the fruite thereof, euen his meate is not to be regarded.

    13And ye saide, beholde it is a weerynesse, and you haue snuffed at it saith the Lorde of hoastes, and ye haue offered the stolne, and the lame, and the sicke, ye haue offered an offering: shoulde I accept this of your handes, saith the lorde?

    14Cursed be the deceitfull which hath in his flocke a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth a corrupt thing to the Lorde: because I am a great king, saith the lord of hoastes, and my name is fearefull among the heathen.

  • Job 21:15
    78%

    15Who is the almightie that we should serue him? And what profite should we haue if we should pray vnto him?

  • Job 34:9
    75%

    9For he hath sayde, It profiteth a man nothing that he shoulde walke with God.

  • Hab 2:13
    74%

    13Behold, is it not of the Lord of hoastes that the people shall labour in the very fire? the people shall euen weery them selues for very vanitie.

  • Mal 1:6-10
    5 verses
    74%

    6A sonne honoureth his father, and a seruaunt his maister: If then I be a father, where is myne honour? if I be a maister, where is my feare? Saith the Lorde God of hoastes to you O ye pristes that despise my name, and ye say, Wherein haue we despised thy name?

    7Ye offer vpon myne aulter vncleane bread, and say, Wherein haue we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the Lorde is not to be regarded.

    8When ye bring the blinde for sacrifice, you say it is not euil: and when ye bring the lame and sicke, you say it is not euil: offer it nowe to thy prince, wyll he be content with thee, or accept thy person, saith the Lorde of hoastes?

    9And now I pray you, pray before God, that he may haue mercie vpon vs: (this euill hath ben done by your meanes) wyll he regarde your persons, saith the Lorde of hoastes?

    10Who is there euen among you that would shutte the doores, and kindle not fire on myne aulter in vaine? I haue no pleasure in you, saith the Lorde of hoastes, neither wyll I accept an offering at your hande.

  • Mal 3:15
    74%

    15And nowe we call the proude happie: yea the workers of wickednesse are set vp, and also they that tempt God, yea they are deliuered.

  • Isa 1:12
    74%

    12When ye come to appeare before me treadyng in my courtes, who hath required this at your handes?

  • Hag 1:5-7
    3 verses
    74%

    5Nowe thus sayth the Lord of hoastes, Consider your owne wayes in your heartes.

    6Ye haue sowen much, but ye bryng litle in: ye eate, but ye haue not inough: ye drinke, but ye are not filled: ye cloth you, but ye be not warme: and he that earneth wages, putteth the wages into a broken bagge.

    7Thus sayth the Lorde of hoastes, Consider your owne wayes in your heartes.

  • Isa 58:3
    73%

    3Wherefore fast we say they and thou seest it not? we put our liues to straitnesse, and thou regardest it not?

  • Mal 2:13
    73%

    13And this againe haue ye done, in couering the aulter of the Lorde with teares, with weeping and mourning, and therfore there is no more respect to the offring, neither acceptable receauing of it at your handes.

  • Mal 3:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    7From the dayes of your fathers ye are gone away from myne ordinaunces, and haue not kept them: turne you to me, and I wyll turne to you, saith the Lorde of hoastes. And ye saide, Wherein shall we returne?

    8Wyll a man spoyle his Gods? yet ye haue spoyled me: and ye say, Wherein haue we spoyled thee? In tythes and offeringes?

  • Jer 2:5
    72%

    5Thus saith the Lorde, What vnfaithfulnesse founde your fathers in me, that they went so farre away fro me, fallyng to lightnesse, and beyng so vayne?

  • Jer 25:7
    72%

    7Neuerthelesse, ye woulde not heare me saith the Lorde, but haue prouoked me to anger with the workes of your handes, to your great harme.

  • Jer 16:10
    72%

    10Nowe when thou shewest this people all these wordes, and they say vnto thee, Wherfore hath the Lord deuised all this great plague for vs? or what is the offence and sinne that we haue done agaynst the Lorde our God?

  • Hag 1:9
    72%

    9Ye loked for much, and lo it came to litle, and when ye brought it home, I dyd blowe vpon it: and why, sayth the Lord of hoastes? because of my house that is waste, and you run euery man into his his owne house.

  • Neh 13:18
    72%

    18Dyd not your fathers euen thus, and our God brought all this plague vpon vs, and vpon this citie? And ye make the wrath more yet vpon Israel, in that ye breake the Sabbath?

  • Dan 9:14
    72%

    14Therfore hath the Lord watched vpon the plague, and brought it vpon vs: for the Lorde our God is righteous in all his workes which he doth: for we would not hearken vnto his voyce.

  • Jer 8:8
    71%

    8Howe dare ye say then, we are wyse, we haue the lawe of the Lorde among vs? Truely in vayne hath he prepared his penne, and vainely haue the writers written it.

  • Jer 14:19
    71%

    19Hast thou then vtterly forsaken Iuda? Doest thou so abhorre Sion? Wherfore hast thou so plagued vs, that we can be healed no more? We loked for peace, and there commeth no good, for the tyme of health, and lo here is nothyng but trouble.

  • Exod 5:17
    71%

    17He sayde: you are idle, idle are you: and therfore you say, we will go, and do sacrifice vnto the Lorde.

  • Job 27:12
    71%

    12Behold, all ye your selues haue seene it, why then do ye thus vanishe in vanitie?

  • Jer 2:29
    71%

    29Wherfore then wyll ye go to lawe with me? seeyng ye all are sinners agaynst me, saith the Lorde.

  • Hag 2:17
    71%

    17I smote you with blasting, and with mildeawe, and with hayle, in all the worke of your handes, and you turned not vnto me, sayth the Lorde.

  • Amos 6:13
    71%

    13Ye reioyce in a thing of naught, ye say: Haue not we gotten vs hornes by our owne strength?

  • Mal 2:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8But ye haue gone out of the way, ye haue caused many to fall by the lawe: ye haue corrupted the couenaunt of Leui, saith the Lorde of hoastes.

    9Therefore haue I also made you despised and vyle before all the people, because you kept not my wayes, but haue ben parciall in the lawe.

  • Hos 9:5
    71%

    5What wyll ye do then in the solempne day, and in the feast day of the Lorde?

  • Jer 2:11
    71%

    11Whether the gentiles them selues haue chaunged their gods which yet are no gods in deede? but my people hath chaunged their honour for a thyng that may not helpe them.

  • 1 Sam 12:21
    70%

    21Neither turne ye away, for then ye go after vayne thinges, which are not able to profite you, nor deliuer you, for they are but vanitie.)

  • Job 35:3
    70%

    3For thou sayest: what aduauntage wyll it be vnto thee, and what profite shall I haue of my sinne?

  • Eccl 3:9
    70%

    9What hath a man els that doth any thyng, but weerinesse and labour?

  • Jer 5:19
    70%

    19But if they say, wherfore doth the Lorde our God all this vnto vs? Then aunswere them: because that lyke as ye haue forsaken me, & serued straunge gods in your lande, euen so shal ye serue straungers out of your lande.

  • Jer 7:8
    70%

    8But take heede, ye trust in lying tales, that beguile you and do you no good.

  • Mic 3:11
    70%

    11(The heades therof iudge for rewards, and the priestes thereof teache for hyre, and the prophetes thereof prophecie for money: yet wyll they leane vpon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among vs? no euill can come vpon vs.)

  • Joel 1:13
    70%

    13Girde your selues and lament O ye priestes, howle ye out ye ministers of the aulter, come and lye all night in sackcloth ye seruauntes of my God: for the meate and drynke offerynges are taken away from the house of your God.

  • Joel 1:16
    70%

    16Is not the meate cut of before our eyes, yea mirth and ioy from the house of our God?

  • Lam 3:40
    70%

    40Let vs looke well vpon our wayes, and remember our selues, and turne agayne to the Lorde.

  • Dan 9:10
    70%

    10And we haue not obeyed the voyce of the Lorde our God, to walke in his lawes which he layde before vs, by the hande of his seruauntes the prophetes.

  • Jer 5:12
    70%

    12They haue denied the Lorde and sayde, It is not he that loketh vpon vs tushe, there shall no misfortune come vpon vs, we shall see neither sworde nor hunger.