Malachi 3:15

An Overflowing Blessing

¹⁴ You have said: “It is useless to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His requirements and walking mournfully before the Lord of Hosts? ¹⁵ So now we consider the arrogant to be fortunate. Not only do those who commit wickedness prosper, they even test God and escape.” ¹⁶ At that time those who feared the Lord spoke to one another. The Lord took notice and listened. So a book of remembrance was written before Him for those who feared Yahweh and had high regard for His name.

Blessed are

Tempted God

Jehovah

Malachi 4:1

“For indeed, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and everyone who commits wickedness will become stubble. The coming day will consume them,” says the Lord of Hosts, “not leaving them root or branches.

Psalm 95:9

where your fathers tested Me;
they tried Me, though they had seen what I did.

Numbers 14:22-23

none of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tested Me these 10 times and did not obey Me,

Esther 5:10

Yet Haman controlled himself and went home. He sent for his friends and his wife Zeresh to join him.

Job 12:6

The tents of robbers are safe,
and those who provoke God are secure;
God’s power provides this.

Job 21:7-15

Why do the wicked continue to live,
growing old and becoming powerful?

Job 21:30

Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of disaster,
rescued from the day of wrath.

Job 22:23

If you return to the Almighty, you will be renewed.
If you banish injustice from your tent

Psalm 10:3

For the wicked one boasts about his own cravings;
the one who is greedy curses and despises the Lord.

Psalm 49:18

Though he praises himself during his lifetime—
and people praise you when you do well for yourself—

Psalm 73:12

Look at them—the wicked!
They are always at ease,
and they increase their wealth.

Psalm 78:18

They deliberately tested God,
demanding the food they craved.

Psalm 78:41

They constantly tested God
and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

Psalm 78:56

But they rebelliously tested the Most High God,
for they did not keep His decrees.

Psalm 106:14

They were seized with craving in the wilderness
and tested God in the desert.

Proverbs 12:12

The wicked desire what evil men have,
but the root of the righteous produces fruit.

Ecclesiastes 9:1-2

Indeed, I took all this to heart and explained it all: the righteous, the wise, and their works are in God’s hands.People don’t know whether to expect love or hate. Everything lies ahead of them.

Jeremiah 7:10

Then do you come and stand before Me in this house called by My name and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue doing all these detestable acts’?

Jeremiah 12:1-2

You will be righteous, Lord,
even if I bring a case against You.
Yet, I wish to contend with You:
Why does the way of the wicked prosper?
Why do all the treacherous live at ease?

Daniel 4:30

the king exclaimed, “Is this not Babylon the Great that I have built by my vast power to be a royal residence and to display my majestic glory?”

Daniel 4:37

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise, exalt, and glorify the King of heaven, because all His works are true and His ways are just. He is able to humble those who walk in pride.

Daniel 5:20-28

But when his heart was exalted and his spirit became arrogant, he was deposed from his royal throne and his glory was taken from him.

Daniel 6:16

So the king gave the order, and they brought Daniel and threw him into the lions’ den. The king said to Daniel, “May your God, whom you serve continually, rescue you!”

Habakkuk 1:13-17

Your eyes are too pure to look on evil,
and You cannot tolerate wrongdoing.
So why do You tolerate those who are treacherous?
Why are You silent
while one who is wicked swallows up
one who is more righteous than himself?

Malachi 2:17

You have wearied the Lord with your words.

Yet you ask, “How have we wearied Him?”

When you say, “Everyone who does what is evil is good in the Lord’s sight, and He is pleased with them,” or “Where is the God of justice?”

Matthew 4:6-7

and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down. For it is written:

He will give His angels orders concerning you,
and they will support you with their hands
so that you will not strike
your foot against a stone.”

Acts 5:9

Then Peter said to her, “Why did you agree to test the Spirit of the Lord? Look! The feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out!”

Acts 12:21

So on an appointed day, dressed in royal robes and seated on the throne, Herod delivered a public address to them.

1 Corinthians 10:9

Let us not test Christ as some of them did and were destroyed by snakes.

Hebrews 3:9

where your fathers tested Me, tried Me,
and saw My works

1 Peter 5:5

In the same way, you younger men, be subject to the elders. And all of you clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because

God resists the proud
but gives grace to the humble.