Malachi 3:15

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.

We call

Yea

Habakkuk 1:13

Set

Job 22:23

They that tempt

Bible References

We call

For behold, the day coming, burning as a furnace; and all the proud and all doing injustice were straw: and the day coming burnt them, said Jehovah of armies, that it shall not leave to them root and branch.

And Haman will contain himself, and will go in to his house; and he will send and cause his friends to come, and Zeresh his wife.

For the unjust boasted upon the desire of his soul, and he blessed him plundering, despising Jehovah.

For in his living he will praise his soul, (and he will praise thee for thou wilt do good to thyself,)

Behold, these the unjust, and they being secure of the world increased riches.

The king answered and said, Is not this great Babel, that I built it for the house of the kingdom by the strength of my power, and for the honor of my majesty?

And when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was strong for pride, he was brought down from the throne of his kingdom, and they took away his honor from him.

And upon a fixed day, Herod, having put on royal apparel, and having sat upon the judgment seat, harangued them.

Likewise, ye younger, be subjected to the elders. And all being subject to one another, be wrapped up in humility: for God opposes the proud, and gives grace to the humble.

Yea

Ye wearied Jehovah with your words: and ye said, In what did we weary? In your saying, Every one doing evil is good in the eyes of Jehovah, and he delighted in them; or, Where the God of judgment?

The tents to those oppressing will be secure, and confidence to those provoking God to anger: whom God will bring into his hand

Wherefore shall the unjust live? They grew old, also they were strong in power.

The unjust one desired the net of the evil: and the root of the just will give.

For all this I gave to my heart, and to examine all this, that the just and the wise and their works are in the hand of God: also love, also hatred, no man shall know of all before them.

Just art thou, O Jehovah, for I will strive to thee: surely I will speak judgments with thee: Wherefore did the way of the evil prosper? all they acting faithlessly with treachery were secure?

Being pure of eyes from beholding evil, and wilt not be able to look upon labor: wherefore wilt thou look upon the transgressors? wilt thou be silent in the unjust swallowing the just above him?

Set

If thou wilt turn back even to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt remove iniquity far off from thy tent

They that tempt

For all the men having seen my glory and my signs which I did in Egypt and in the desert, and they will try me this ten times, they heard not to my voice.

At that time the king said, and they brought Daniel and cast into the den of the lions; the king answered and said to Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest to him continually, he will set thee free.

And they will tempt God in their heart to ask food for their soul.

When your fathers tempted me, they proved me; also they saw my works.

And they will desire a desire in the desert, and they will tempt God in the waste.

And says to him, If thou art the Son of God cast thyself down; for it has been written, That to his messengers he will command concerning thee; and in the hands shall they lift thee up, lest that perhaps thou strike thy foot against a stone.

And Peter said to her, For what was it agreed by you to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them having interred thy husband at the door, and they shall carry thee out.

Neither should we tempt Christ, as also some of them tempted, and were destroyed by serpents.

Where your fathers tried me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.