Malachi 3:15

Authorized 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.

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  • Mal 4:1 : 1 ¶ For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
  • Matt 4:6-7 : 6 And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in [their] hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. 7 Jesus said unto him, ‹It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.›
  • Acts 5:9 : 9 Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband [are] at the door, and shall carry thee out.
  • Acts 12:21 : 21 And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them.
  • 1 Cor 10:9 : 9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
  • Heb 3:9 : 9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
  • 1 Pet 5:5 : 5 ¶ Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all [of you] be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
  • Num 14:22-23 : 22 Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; 23 Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
  • Esth 5:10 : 10 Nevertheless Haman refrained himself: and when he came home, he sent and called for his friends, and Zeresh his wife.
  • Job 12:6 : 6 ¶ The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth [abundantly].
  • Job 21:7-9 : 7 ¶ Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? 8 Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. 9 Their houses [are] safe from fear, neither [is] the rod of God upon them. 10 Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. 11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. 12 They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ. 13 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. 14 Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. 15 What [is] the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
  • Job 21:30 : 30 That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
  • Job 22:23 : 23 If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
  • Ps 10:3 : 3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, [whom] the LORD abhorreth.
  • Ps 49:18 : 18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and [men] will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.
  • Ps 73:12 : 12 Behold, these [are] the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase [in] riches.
  • Ps 78:18 : 18 And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
  • Ps 78:41 : 41 Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
  • Ps 78:56 : 56 Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
  • Ps 95:9 : 9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
  • Ps 106:14 : 14 But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.
  • Prov 12:12 : 12 ¶ The wicked desireth the net of evil [men]: but the root of the righteous yieldeth [fruit].
  • Eccl 9:1-2 : 1 ¶ For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, [are] in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred [by] all [that is] before them. 2 All [things come] alike to all: [there is] one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as [is] the good, so [is] the sinner; [and] he that sweareth, as [he] that feareth an oath.
  • Jer 7:10 : 10 And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?
  • Jer 12:1-2 : 1 ¶ Righteous [art] thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of [thy] judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? [wherefore] are all they happy that deal very treacherously? 2 Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou [art] near in their mouth, and far from their reins.
  • Dan 4:30 : 30 The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?
  • Dan 4:37 : 37 Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works [are] truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
  • Dan 5:20-28 : 20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him: 21 And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling [was] with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and [that] he appointeth over it whomsoever he will. 22 And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this; 23 But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath [is], and whose [are] all thy ways, hast thou not glorified: 24 Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written. 25 And this [is] the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. 26 This [is] the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. 27 TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. 28 PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
  • Dan 6:16 : 16 Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast [him] into the den of lions. [Now] the king spake and said unto Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will deliver thee.
  • Hab 1:13-17 : 13 [Thou art] of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, [and] holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth [the man that is] more righteous than he? 14 And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, [that have] no ruler over them? 15 They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad. 16 Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion [is] fat, and their meat plenteous. 17 Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?
  • Mal 2:17 : 17 Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied [him]? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil [is] good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where [is] the God of judgment?

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