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Malachi 3:13-15

King James Version (KJV)

“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”
— D.L. Moody

Scripture focus

13. Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken [so much] against thee? 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? 15. And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, [they that] tempt God are even delivered.

Malachi 3:13-15 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Malachi 3:13

Theological / Devotional

Stout against me. Or, “firm against me” (see Jude 15). The LXX reads, “Ye have spoken grievous words against me.” The prophet here contrasts the wicked murmuring of the people (Mal. 3:13-15) with the reward that those faithful to God will receive (vs. 16-18). See p. 1122.

Yet ye say. See on ch. 1:2.

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