Malachi 3: 14

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MALACHI

CHAPTER 3

14 Ye have said, It is ^avain to serve God: and what ^bprofit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts?

Footnotes

14a

Job 9: 22.

22 This is one thing, therefore I said it, He ^adestroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

Isa. 58: 3.

3 ¶ ^aWherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your ^bfast ye find ^cpleasure, and ^dexact all your labours.

Zeph. 1: 12 (12-13)

12 And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are ^asettled on their ^blees: that say in their heart, The Lord will ^cnot do good, neither will he do evil.

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 ^aevil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of ^bjudgment?

3 Ne. 24: 14 (14-18)

14 Ye have ^asaid: It is ^bvain to serve God, and what doth it profit that we have kept his ^cordinances and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of Hosts?

Eccl. 8: 14.

14 There is a ^avanity which is done upon the earth; that there be ^bjust men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.