Malachi 3:15

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

Cross-references · 31

• Jer 12:1–2You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?
• Job 21:7–15“Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?
• Mal 4:1“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
• Mal 2:17You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, ‘How have we wearied him?’ In that you say, ‘Everyone who does evil is good in Yahweh’s sight, and he delights in them;’ or ‘Where is the God of justice?’
• Job 22:23If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.
• Matt 4:6–7and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, ‘He will put his angels in charge of you.’ and, ‘On their hands they will bear you up, so that you don’t dash your foot against a stone.’”
• Job 12:6The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their God in their hands.
• Dan 4:30The king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?
• Dan 5:20–28But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:
• Dan 4:37Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.
• Dan 6:16Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. The king spoke and said to Daniel, Your God whom you serve continually, he will deliver you.
• Hab 1:13–17You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,
• Acts 12:21On an appointed day, Herod dressed himself in royal clothing, sat on the throne, and gave a speech to them.
• Acts 5:9But Peter asked her, “How is it that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.”
• Heb 3:9where your fathers tested me by proving me, and saw my deeds for forty years.
• Ps 10:3For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy, and condemns Yahweh.
• Ps 106:14but gave in to craving in the desert, and tested God in the wasteland.
• Ps 78:41They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
• Ps 49:18Though while he lived he blessed his soul — and men praise you when you do well for yourself —
• Ps 95:9when your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work.
• Ps 78:18They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.
• Ps 78:56Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn’t keep his testimonies;
• Ps 73:12Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.
• 1 Pet 5:5Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
• Jer 7:10and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered;’ that you may do all these abominations?
• Esth 5:10Nevertheless Haman restrained himself, and went home. There, he sent and called for his friends and Zeresh his wife.
• Prov 12:12The wicked desires the plunder of evil men, but the root of the righteous flourishes.
• Eccl 9:1–2For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn’t know it; all is before them.
• Job 21:30that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led out to the day of wrath?
• Num 14:22–23because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;
• 1 Cor 10:9Let us not test Christ, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.

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