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 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?
• Job 21:7–15Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
• Mal 4:1For, 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.
• Mal 2:17Ye 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?
• Job 22:23If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
• Matt 4:6–7And 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.
• Job 12:6The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
• Dan 4:30The 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 5:20–28But 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:
• Dan 4:37Now 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 6:16Then 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 1:13–17Thou 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?
• Acts 12:21And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them.
• Acts 5:9Then 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.
• Heb 3:9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
• Ps 10:3For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
• Ps 106:14But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.
• Ps 78:41Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
• Ps 49:18Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.
• Ps 95:9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
• Ps 78:18And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
• Ps 78:56Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
• Ps 73:12Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.
• 1 Pet 5:5Likewise, 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.
• Jer 7:10And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?
• Esth 5:10Nevertheless Haman refrained himself: and when he came home, he sent and called for his friends, and Zeresh his wife.
• Prov 12:12The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.
• Eccl 9:1–2For 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.
• Job 21:30That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
• Num 14:22–23Because 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;
• 1 Cor 10:9Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.

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