Malachi 3:14
“Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts?”
And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the Lord of hosts.
Your words have been stout against me, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?
Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts?
And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.
Cross-References
“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”
“Wherefore 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 fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.”
“So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.”
“Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.”
“For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?”