Malachi 3:14-16

Expanded Bible

¹⁴ “You have said, ‘It is ·useless [futile] to serve God. ·It did no good to obey [^LWhat profit is there to keep] his laws and to ·show that we were sorry [^Lwalk about in mourning] for what we did before the Lord ·All-Powerful [Almighty; of Heaven’s Armies; ^Tof hosts]. ¹⁵ So we say that proud people are ·happy [blessed]. Evil people ·succeed [prosper]. They ·challenge [test] God and ·get away with it [escape harm].’”

¹⁶ Then those who ·honored [feared] the Lord spoke with each other, and the Lord listened and heard them. The names of those who ·respected [feared] the Lord and honored ·him [^Lhis name] were written in his presence in a ·book to be remembered [scroll of remembrance].