Malachi 3:15 Cross References - Bishops

¹⁵ And nowe we call the proude happie: yea the workers of wickednesse are set vp, and also they that tempt God, yea they are deliuered

²² But all those men whiche haue seene my glory, and my miracles whiche I did in Egypt and in the wildernesse, and haue tempted me nowe this ten tymes, and haue not hearkened vnto my voyce ²³ Shall not see the lande whiche I sware vnto their fathers, neither shall any of them that prouoked me see it

¹⁰ Neuerthelesse, Haman refrained him selfe, and when he came home he sent and called for his friendes and Zares his wyfe

⁶ The houses of robbers are in wealth and prosperitie, and they that maliciouslie meddle against God dwell without care, in those thinges that God hath geuen richely with his hande

⁷ Wherefore do wicked men liue, come to their olde age, and increase in richesse ⁸ Their children lyue in their sight, and their generation before their eyes ⁹ Their houses are safe from all feare, and the rod of God is not vpon them ¹⁰ Their bullocke gendreth and that not out of time, their cowe calueth and is not vnfruitfull ¹¹ They sende foorth their children by flockes, & their sonnes [leade the] daunce ¹² They beare with them tabrets and harpes, and reioyce in the sounde of the organs ¹³ They spend their dayes in wealthines, but sodainely they go downe to the graue ¹⁴ They say also vnto God: Go from vs, we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes ¹⁵ Who is the almightie that we should serue him? And what profite should we haue if we should pray vnto him

³⁰ That the wicked is kept vnto the day of destruction, and the vngodly shalbe brought foorth to the day of wrath

²³ For if thou wilt turne to the almightie, thou shalt be buyld vp, and put all vnrighteousnes from thy dwelling

³ For the vngodly prayseth according to his owne heartes desire: and blessing the couetous, he blasphemeth God

¹⁸ (49:17) For whyle he lyued he counted him selfe an happy man: and so long as thou doest well vnto thy selfe, men wyll speake good of thee

¹² Lo these vngodly and fortunate in the worlde: do possesse riches

¹⁸ And they temped god in their heartes: in requiring meate for their lust

⁴¹ They turned backe and tempted the Lorde: and prescribed boundes to the most holy [God] of Israel

⁵⁶ Neuerthelesse, they tempted and displeased the most hyghest Lorde: & kept not his testimonies

⁹ When your fathers tempted me, proued me: [yea after] they had seene my worke

¹⁴ And they were taken with a great lust in the wyldernesse: and they tempted God in the desert

¹² The desire of the vngodly is a net of euyls: but the roote of the ryghteous bryngeth foorth fruite

¹ For all these thinges purposed I in my mynde to seeke out: The righteous & wise, yea & their seruauntes also are in the hand of God, and there is no man that knoweth eyther loue or hate, but all thinges are before them ² It happeneth vnto one as vnto another, it goeth with the righteous as with the vngodly, with the good and cleane, as with the vncleane, with hym that offereth, as with him that offereth not: like as it goeth with the vertuous, so goeth it also with the sinner: as it happeneth vnto the pariured, so happeneth it also to hym that is afrayde to be forsworne

¹⁰ Yet then come ye and stande before me in this house (whiche hath my name geuen vnto it) and say, tushe, we are absolued quite, though we haue done all these abhominations

¹ O Lorde thou art more righteous, then that I shoulde dispute with thee: neuerthelesse, let me talke with thee in thynges reasonable. Howe happeneth it that the way of the vngodly is so prosperous? and that it goeth so well with them which without any shame offend and liue in wickednesse ² Thou plantest them, they take roote, they growe, and bryng foorth fruite: they boast much of thee, yet art thou farre from their raynes

³⁰ And the king spake, & sayd: Is not this great Babylon that I haue buylt for the house of the kingdome by the might of my power, and for the honour of my maiestie

³⁷ Now therfore I Nabuchodonozor prayse, and extol, & magnifie the king of heauen, whose workes are all trueth, & his wayes iudgement, and those that walke in pryde he is able to abase

²⁰ But because his heart was loftie, and his minde strengthened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they toke his glory from him ²¹ He was driuen out from the sonnes of men, his heart was made lyke the beastes, and his dwelling was with the wilde Asses, they fed him with grasse lyke Oxen, and his body was wet with the deawe of the heauen, till he knewe that the most hie God bare rule ouer the kingdome of men, and that he appoynteth ouer it whom so euer he pleaseth ²² And thou his sonne, O Balthasar, hast not submitted thyne heart, though thou knewest all these thinges ²³ But hast lift vp thy selfe against the Lorde of heauen, so that the vessels of his house were brought before thee, that thou and thy princes, with thy wyues and concubines, might drinke wine thereout: and thou hast praysed the gods of siluer and golde, of brasse and iron, of wood and stone, which neither see, heare, nor vnderstand: As for the God in whose hande consisteth thy breath and all thy wayes, thou hast not glorified him ²⁴ Then was the knockles of the hand sent from him, and hath written this writing ²⁵ And this the writing that he hath writte: MENE MENE, THECEL, VPHARSIN ²⁶ Now the interpretation of the thing is this: MENE, God hath numbred thy kingdome, and brought it to an ende ²⁷ THECEL, thou art wayed in the balauce, and art founde wanting ²⁸ PHERES, thy kingdome is deuided, and geuen to the Medes, and Perses

¹⁶ Then the king commaunded, and they brought Daniel, and they cast him into the lions denne. Nowe the king spake vnto Daniel, & saide: Thy God whom thou alway seruest, euen he wyll deliuer thee

¹³ Thou art of pure eyes, and canst not see euyl, thou canst not behold wickednesse: wherfore [then] doest thou loke vpo the transgressours, and holdest thy tongue, when the wicked deuoureth the man that is more righteous then he ¹⁴ And makest men as the fishe of the sea, and as the creeping thinges that haue no ruler ouer them ¹⁵ They take vp all with the angle, they catche it in their net, and gather it in their yarne: wherof they reioyce and are glad ¹⁶ Therfore they sacrifice vnto their net, and burne incense vnto their yarne: because by them their portion is fat, and their meate plenteous ¹⁷ Shall they therfore stretche out their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations

¹⁷ Ye haue weeryed the Lord with your wordes, and you haue sayde, Wherein haue we weeried him? Whylest you say, Euery one that doth euil, is good in the sight of the Lorde, and he is pleased in them: or where is the God of iudgement

¹ For marke, the day commeth burning like an ouen: and all the proude, and all that worke wickednesse shalbe stubble, and the day that is for to come shall burne them, saith the Lorde of hoastes, and shall leaue them neither roote, nor braunche

⁶ And saith vnto hym: If thou be the sonne of God, cast thy selfe downe. For it is written: He shall geue his Angels charge ouer thee, & with their handes they shall lyft thee vp, lest at any tyme thou dashe thy foote agaynst a stone ⁷ And Iesus sayde to hym. It is written agayne: Thou shalt not tempt the Lorde thy God

⁹ Then Peter sayde vnto her: Why haue ye agreed together, to tempt the spirite of the Lorde? Beholde, the feete of the which haue buried thy husbande, are at the doore, and shall cary thee out

²¹ And vpon a day appoynted, Herode arayed hym in royall apparell, and set hym in his seate, and made an oration vnto them

⁹ Neither let vs tempt Christe, as some of them tempted, and were destroyed of serpentes

⁹ Where your fathers tempted me, proued me, and sawe my workes 40 yeres

⁵ Likewise ye younger, submit your selues vnto the elder: Submit your selues euery man one to another, decke your selues inwardly in lowlynes of mynde: For God resisteth the proude, and geueth grace to the humble