Malachi 3:15

An Overflowing Blessing

¹⁴ You have said, '[It is] useless to serve God! What [is the] gain if we keep his requirements, and if we walk as mourners {before} Yahweh of hosts? ¹⁵ And now we [are] calling [the] arrogant blessed! Not only do those who do wickedness prosper; they also test God and they escape!'" ¹⁶ Then those who revered Yahweh spoke {with one another}. And Yahweh listened attentively and heard, and a scroll of remembrance was written {before him} of those who revere Yahweh and ponder his name.

Blessed are

Tempted God

Jehovah

Malachi 4:1

"For look! The day [is] about to come, burning like an oven, and all the arrogant and every {evildoer} will be stubble. The coming day will consume them," says Yahweh of hosts. "It will not leave behind for them root or branch.

Psalm 95:9

when your ancestors tried me. They put me to the test, [even] though they had seen my work.

Numbers 14:22-23

But because all the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the desert yet tested me these ten times and did not listen to my voice,

Esther 5:10

But Haman controlled himself and went to his house, and he sent [for] and brought his friends and Zeresh his wife.

Job 12:6

[The] tents of [the] destroyers are at peace, and [there is] security for those who provoke God, [for those] whom God brings into his hand.

Job 21:7-15

"Why do [the] wicked live, grow old, even grow mighty [in] power?

Job 21:30

Indeed, [the] wicked is spared from [the] day of disaster; he is delivered from [the] day of wrath.

Job 22:23

If you return to Shaddai, you will be restored; [if] you remove wickedness from your tent,

Psalm 10:3

for [the] wicked boasts about the desire of his {heart}, and [the] one greedy for gain curses [and] treats Yahweh with contempt.

Psalm 49:18

Though he congratulated his soul while he was living --and [people] will praise you when you do well for yourself--

Psalm 73:12

See, these [are the] wicked, and they increase wealth, ever carefree.

Psalm 78:18

And they tested God in their heart [by] asking food {for their craving}.

Psalm 78:41

So they again tested God and distressed the Holy One of Israel.

Psalm 78:56

But they tested and rebelled against God Most High and did not keep his statutes.

Psalm 106:14

And they {craved intensely} in the wilderness, and tested God in [the] desert.

Proverbs 12:12

The wicked covets the proceeds of evil, but the root of the righteous {bears fruit}.

Ecclesiastes 9:1-2

So all this I laid to my heart, and I concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their deeds, [are] in the hand of God. So no one knows anything that will [come] to them, whether [it will be] love or hatred.

Jeremiah 7:10

And then you come and you stand {before} me in this house, which is called {by my name}, and you say, 'we are safe {to go on doing} all of these detestable things.'

Jeremiah 12:1-2

You [will be] in the right, Yahweh, when I complain to you. Even so, let me speak [my] claims with you. Why does [the] way of [the] wicked succeed? All those who deal treacherously with treachery are at ease.

Daniel 4:30

And the king answered and said, "Is this not the great Babylon which I have built as a royal palace by the strength of my own power, and for the glory of my own majesty?"

Daniel 4:37

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and honor the king of heaven, for all his works [are] truth, and his ways [are] justice and that he is able to humble those who walk in pride."

Daniel 5:20-28

But {when} his heart became arrogant and his spirit became hard [so as] to act proudly, he was deposed from the throne of his kingdom and the glory {was taken away from him}.

Daniel 6:16

Then the king gave the command, and Daniel was brought in and they threw [him] into {the lion pit}. {The king said} to Daniel, "Your God, whom you serve {faithfully}, may he rescue you!"

Habakkuk 1:13-17

Your eyes [are] too pure to see evil, and you are not able to look at wrongdoing. Why do you look at the treacherous? [Why] are you silent when the wicked swallows up [someone] more righteous than him?

Malachi 2:17

You have wearied Yahweh with your words, but you ask, "With what have we wearied [him]?" [You have done so] {when you say}, "Everyone who does evil [is] good in the {sight} of Yahweh, and in them he delights," 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 command his angels concerning you,' and 'On [their] hands they will lift you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.'"

Acts 5:9

So Peter [said] to her, "How [is it] that it was agreed by you [two] to test the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who buried your husband [are] at the door, and they will carry you out!"

Acts 12:21

So on an appointed day Herod, [after] putting on royal clothing and sitting down on the judgment seat, began to deliver a public address to them.

1 Corinthians 10:9

nor put Christ to the test, as some of them tested [him], and were destroyed by snakes,

Hebrews 3:9

where your fathers tested [me] by trial and saw my works

1 Peter 5:5

In the same way, younger men, be subject to the elders, and all [of you] clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.