Malachi 3:15 Parallel Translations

So now we call arrogant people blessed. Not only are evildoers encouraged, they even test God and get away with it.'"(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and escape.

BBE:

And now to us the men of pride seem happy; yes, the evil-doers are doing well; they put God to the test and are safe.

DBY:

And now we hold the proud for happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and they escape.

ERV:

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

JPS:

And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they try God, and are delivered.'

WBS:

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

WEB:

Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.'

YLT:

And now, we are declaring the proud happy, Yea, built up have been those doing wickedness, Yea they have tempted God, and escape.'

Malachi 3:15 Cross References

XREF:

Isaiah 2:22 Stop regarding man, whose breath of life is in his nostrils; For why should he be esteemed?

Jeremiah 7:10 then come and stand before Me in this house, which is called by My name, and say, 'We are delivered!'-- that you may do all these abominations?

Malachi 4:1 "For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and every evildoer will be chaff; and the day that is coming will set them ablaze," says the LORD of hosts, "so that it will leave them neither root nor branch." (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

3:15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, [they that] tempt God are even {n} delivered.
(n) They are not only preferred to honour, but also delivered from dangers.

WES:

3:15 And now - You say, we see before our eyes, that the proud contemners of God and his law, are the flourishing ones. Delivered - Escape all punishment.

MHC:

3:13-18 Among the Jews at this time, some plainly discovered themselves to be children of the wicked one. The yoke of Christ is easy. But those who work wickedness, tempt God by presumptuous sins. Judge of things as they will appear when the doom of these proud sinners comes to be executed. Those that feared the Lord, spake kindly, for preserving and promoting mutual love, when sin thus abounded. They spake one to another, in the language of those that fear the Lord, and think on his name. As evil communications corrupt good minds and manners, so good communications confirm them. A book of remembrance was written before God. He will take care that his children perish not with those that believe not. They shall be vessels of mercy and honour, when the rest are made vessels of wrath and dishonour. The saints are God's jewels; they are dear to him. He will preserve them as his jewels, when the earth is burned up like dross. Those who now own God for theirs, he will then own for his. It is our duty to serve God with the disposition of children; and he will not have his children trained up in idleness; they must do him service from a principle of love. Even God's children stand in need of sparing mercy. All are righteous or wicked, such as serve God, or such as serve him not: all are going to heaven or to hell. We are often deceived in our opinions concerning both the one and the other; but at the bar of Christ, every man's character will be known. As to ourselves, we have need to think among which we shall have our lot; and, as to others, we must judge nothing before the time. But in the end all the world will confess that those alone were wise and happy, who served the Lord and trusted in Him.

CONC:

Arrogant Blessed Built Certainly Challenge Declaring Deem Delivered Doers Escape Evildoers Evil-doers Happy Henceforth Hold Pride Prosper Proud Safe Seem Tempt Tempted Test Try Wickedness Yea Yes

Arrogant Blessed Built Deem Delivered Doers Escape Evildoers Evil-Doers Happy Henceforth Hold Pride Prosper Proud Safe Tempt Tempted Test Try Wickedness Work

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