Malachi 3:14
You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God,’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?
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Malachi 3:14
You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God,’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?
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Genesis 25:32
Esau said, “Behold, I am about to die. What good is the birthright to me?”
1 Kings 21:27
When Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes, put sackcloth on his body, fasted, lay in sackcloth, and went about despondently.
Isaiah 1:14
My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them.
Isaiah 58:1
“Cry aloud! Don’t spare! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins.
Isaiah 58:2
Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways. As a nation that did righteousness, and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments. They delight to draw near to God.
Zechariah 7:3
and to speak to the priests of the house of Yahweh of Armies and to the prophets, saying, “Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?”
Zechariah 7:4
Then the word of Yahweh of Armies came to me, saying,
Zechariah 7:6
When you eat and when you drink, don’t you eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?
Matthew 6:5
“When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward.
Matthew 6:7
In praying, don’t use vain repetitions as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.
Luke 10:29
But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”
Luke 18:12
I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.’
1 Corinthians 15:2
by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.
1 Corinthians 15:32
If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then “let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”
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Exodus 17:4
Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, “What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”
Numbers 11:11
Moses said to Yahweh, “Why have you treated your servant so badly? Why haven’t I found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?
Deuteronomy 1:12
How can I myself alone bear your problems, your burdens, and your strife?
Jeremiah 15:10
Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife, and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; yet every one of them curses me.
Jeremiah 15:18
Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?
2 Corinthians 11:28
Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily: anxiety for all the assemblies.
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Numbers 11:5
We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic;
Psalms 73:8
They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.
Psalms 73:10
Therefore their people return to them, and they drink up waters of abundance.
Psalms 73:14
For all day long I have been plagued, and punished every morning.
Psalms 73:15
If I had said, “I will speak thus”, behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.
Ecclesiastes 9:2
All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn’t sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.
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Job 16:3
Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
Zechariah 1:6
But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn’t they overtake your fathers? “Then they repented and said, ‘Just as Yahweh of Armies determined to do to us, according to our ways and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.’ ”
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Isaiah 5:19
who say, “Let him make haste, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!”
Ezekiel 8:12
Then he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his rooms of imagery? For they say, ‘Yahweh doesn’t see us. Yahweh has forsaken the land.’ ”
Ezekiel 9:9
Then he said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perversion; for they say, ‘Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh doesn’t see.’
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Job 9:31
yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes will abhor me.
Psalms 50:21
You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.
Jeremiah 2:5
Yahweh says, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after worthless vanity, and have become worthless?
Jeremiah 2:22
For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me,” says the Lord Yahweh.
Jeremiah 44:17
But we will certainly perform every word that has gone out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.
Ezekiel 18:26
When the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies in it, then he dies in his iniquity that he has done.
Ezekiel 18:27
Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he will save his soul alive.
Ezekiel 18:28
Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live. He shall not die.
Ezekiel 18:29
Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair.’ House of Israel, aren’t my ways fair? Aren’t your ways unfair?
Malachi 1:10
“Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
Malachi 1:12
“But you profane it when you say, ‘Yahweh’s table is polluted, and its fruit, even its food, is contemptible.’
Matthew 20:12
saying, ‘These last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat!’
Luke 19:22
“He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn’t lay down and reaping that which I didn’t sow.
Romans 8:7
because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God, for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.
James 4:9
Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
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James 3:6
And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.
Jude 1:8
Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.
Jude 1:10
But these speak evil of whatever things they don’t know. They are destroyed in these things that they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason.
Jude 1:16
These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts—and their mouth speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to gain advantage.
Revelation 16:9
People were scorched with great heat, and people blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues. They didn’t repent and give him glory.
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