Malachi 3:14
King James Version
“Ye have said, It vain to serve God: and what profit that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?”
Context
11And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.
12And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.
13Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken against thee?
14Ye have said, It vain to serve God: and what profit that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?
15And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, tempt God are even delivered.
16Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.
17And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.