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You have said, It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Hosts?
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A Transactional Faith
The people complained that serving God was pointless because they saw no immediate, worldly profit. Commentators explain this reveals a transactional view of faith, where obedience is only offered in exchange for earthly rewards. This mindset, focused on temporal comfort, leads to disillusionment and accusation against God when life is difficult.
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Malachi
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18th Century
Presbyterian
You have said, It is vain to serve the God - “as receiving no gain or reward for their service. This is the judgment of the world, …
19th Century
Anglican
REBUKE OF INFIDELITY. THE ADVENT OF THE LORD FORETOLD (Malachi 2:17 to Malachi 3:18).
Baptist
Those were indeed bad old times when the mass of the people looked only to their own temporal comfort. When they saw the wicked become rich, they w…
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16th Century
Protestant
Here again God reasons earnestly with the Jews because of their impious and wicked blasphemy in saying that He disappointed His servants, and that …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
You have said, it is vain to serve God This they said in their hearts, if not with their lips, that it was a vain th…
Among the Jews at this time, some plainly revealed themselves to be children of the wicked one. The yoke of Christ is easy. But those who work wick…
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