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Mal. 3:15 KJV (With Strong’s)

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

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Psa. 95:9• ⁹When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work. (Psa. 95:9)

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Mal. 4:1• ¹For behold, the day cometh, burning as a furnace; and all the proud and all that work wickedness shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith Jehovah of hosts, so that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. (Mal. 4:1)

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Esther 5:10• ¹⁰But Haman controlled himself, and came home; and he sent and called for his friends, and Zeresh his wife. (Esther 5:10)

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Psa. 10:3• ³For the wicked boasteth of his soul's desire, and he blesseth the covetous; he contemneth Jehovah. (Psa. 10:3)

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Psa. 49:18• ¹⁸Though he blessed his soul in his lifetime,--and men will praise thee when thou doest well to thyself,-- (Psa. 49:18)

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Psa. 73:12• ¹²Behold, these are the wicked, and they prosper in the world: they heap up riches. (Psa. 73:12)

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Dan. 4:30,37• ³⁰the king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?
³⁷Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of the heavens, all whose works are truth, and his paths judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase. (Dan. 4:30,37)

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Dan. 5:20‑28• ²⁰But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit hardened unto presumption, he was deposed from the throne of his kingdom, and they took his glory from him;
²¹and he was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses; they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the Most High God ruleth over the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.
²²And thou, Belshazzar, his son, hast not humbled thy heart, although thou knewest all this;
²³but hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of the heavens; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou and thy nobles, thy wives and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:
²⁴then from before him was sent the part of the hand, and this writing hath been written.
²⁵And this is the writing that is written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
²⁶This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE, God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it;
²⁷TEKEL, Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting;
²⁸PERES, Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians. (Dan. 5:20‑28)

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Acts 12:21• ²¹And on a set day, clothed in royal apparel and sitting on the elevated seat of honour, Herod made a public oration to them. (Acts 12:21)

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1 Peter 5:5• ⁵Likewise ye younger, be subject to the elder, and all of you bind on humility towards one another; for God sets himself against the proud, but to the humble gives grace. (1 Peter 5:5)

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Mal. 2:17• ¹⁷Ye have wearied Jehovah with your words, and ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? In that ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of Jehovah, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment? (Mal. 2:17)

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Job 12:6• ⁶The tents of desolators are in peace, and they that provoke *God are secure; into whose hand +God bringeth. (Job 12:6)

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Job 21:7‑15,30• ⁷Wherefore do the wicked live, grow old, yea, become mighty in power?
⁸Their seed is established with them in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes.
⁹Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of +God upon them.
¹⁰Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
¹¹They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
¹²They shout to the tambour and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
¹³They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment go down to Sheol.
¹⁴And they say unto *God, Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways!
¹⁵What is the Almighty that we should serve him? and what are we profited if we pray unto him?
³⁰That the wicked is reserved for the day of calamity? They are led forth to the day of wrath. (Job 21:7‑15,30)

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Prov. 12:12• ¹²The wicked desireth the net of evil men; but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit. (Prov. 12:12)

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Eccl. 9:1‑2• ¹For all this I laid to my heart and indeed to investigate all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; man knoweth neither love nor hatred: all is before them.
²All things come alike to all: one event to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean, to him that sacrificeth and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath. (Eccl. 9:1‑2)

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Jer. 12:1‑2• ¹Righteous art thou, Jehovah, when I plead with thee; yet will I speak with thee of thy judgments. Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they at ease that deal very treacherously?
²Thou hast planted them, they also have taken root: they advance, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, but far from their reins. (Jer. 12:1‑2)

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Hab. 1:13‑17• ¹³Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on mischief: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and keepest silence when the wicked swalloweth up a man more righteous than he?
¹⁴And thou makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them.
¹⁵He taketh up all of them with the hook, he catcheth them in his net, and gathereth them into his drag; therefore he rejoiceth and is glad:
¹⁶therefore he sacrificeth unto his net, and burneth incense unto his drag; for by them his portion is become fat, and his meat dainty.
¹⁷Shall he therefore empty his net, and not spare to slay the nations continually? (Hab. 1:13‑17)

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Job 22:23• ²³If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up. If thou remove unrighteousness far from thy tents, (Job 22:23)

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Num. 14:22‑23• ²²for all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice,
²³shall in no wise see the land which I did swear unto their fathers: none of them that despised me shall see it. (Num. 14:22‑23)

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Dan. 6:16• ¹⁶Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. The king spoke and said unto Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will save thee. (Dan. 6:16)

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Psa. 78:18,41,56• ¹⁸And they tempted *God in their heart, by asking meat for their lust;
⁴¹And they turned again and tempted *God, and grieved the Holy One of Israel.
⁵⁶But they tempted and provoked God, the Most High, and kept not his testimonies, (Psa. 78:18,41,56)

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Psa. 95:9• ⁹When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work. (Psa. 95:9)

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Psa. 106:14• ¹⁴And they lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted *God in the desert. (Psa. 106:14)

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Matt. 4:6‑7• ⁶and says to him, If thou be Son of God cast thyself down; for it is written, He shall give charge to his angels concerning thee, and on their hands shall they bear thee, lest in anywise thou strike thy foot against a stone.
⁷Jesus said to him, It is again written, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. (Matt. 4:6‑7)

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Acts 5:9• ⁹And Peter said to her, Why is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Lo, the feet of those that have buried thy husband are at the door, and they shall carry thee out. (Acts 5:9)

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1 Cor. 10:9• ⁹Neither let us tempt the Christ, as some of them tempted, and perished by serpents. (1 Cor. 10:9)

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Heb. 3:9• ⁹where your fathers tempted me, by proving me, and saw my works forty years. (Heb. 3:9)

• they were charging God with identifying Himself with and favoring the proud and the wicked—proof of their utter deception as to their own condition, and of their ignorance of the character of God. (“Malachi 3” by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

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