Malachi 3:15

The people conclude that the proud and wicked prosper and escape, even when they test God.

Cross-references · 31

• Jer 12:1–2Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?
• Job 21:7–15Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?
• Mal 4:1“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”
• Mal 2:17You have wearied the LORD with your words; yet you ask, “How have we wearied Him?” By saying, “All who do evil are good in the sight of the LORD, and in them He delights,” or, “Where is the God of justice?”
• Job 22:23If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove injustice from your tents
• Matt 4:6–7“If You are the Son of God,” he said, “throw Yourself down. For it is written: ‘He will command His angels concerning You, and they will lift You up in their hands, so that You will not strike Your foot against a stone.’”
• Job 12:6The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure—those who carry their god in their hands.
• Dan 4:30the king exclaimed, “Is this not Babylon the Great, which I myself have built by the might of my power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?”
• Dan 5:20–28But when his heart became arrogant and his spirit was hardened with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne, and his glory was taken from him.
• Dan 4:37Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, for all His works are true and all His ways are just. And He is able to humble those who walk in pride.
• Dan 6:16So the king gave the order, and they brought Daniel and threw him into the den of lions. The king said to Daniel, “May your God, whom you serve continually, deliver you!”
• Hab 1:13–17Your eyes are too pure to look upon evil, and You cannot tolerate wrongdoing. So why do You tolerate the faithless? Why are You silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?
• Acts 12:21On the appointed day, Herod donned his royal robes, sat on his throne, and addressed the people.
• Acts 5:9“How could you agree to test the Spirit of the Lord?” Peter replied. “Look, the feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out also.”
• Heb 3:9where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works.
• Ps 10:3For the wicked man boasts in the cravings of his heart; he blesses the greedy and reviles the LORD.
• Ps 106:14They craved intensely in the wilderness and tested God in the desert.
• Ps 78:41Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
• Ps 49:18Though in his lifetime he blesses his soul—and men praise you when you prosper—
• Ps 95:9where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work.
• Ps 78:18They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved.
• Ps 78:56But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.
• Ps 73:12Behold, these are the wicked—always carefree as they increase their wealth.
• 1 Pet 5:5Young men, in the same way, submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
• Jer 7:10and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue with all these abominations’?
• Esth 5:10Nevertheless, Haman restrained himself and went home. And calling for his friends and his wife Zeresh,
• Prov 12:12The wicked desire the plunder of evil men, but the root of the righteous flourishes.
• Eccl 9:1–2So I took all this to heart and concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their deeds, are in God’s hands. Man does not know what lies ahead, whether love or hate.
• Job 21:30Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, delivered from the day of wrath.
• Num 14:22–23not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times—
• 1 Cor 10:9We should not test Christ, as some of them did, and were killed by snakes.

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