Ezekiel 14:20

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Ezekiel 14:18–22 · Berean Standard Bible

18 then as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, even if these three men were in it, they could not deliver their own sons or daughters. They alone would be delivered.

19 Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out My wrath upon it through bloodshed, cutting off from it both man and beast,

20 then as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, they could not deliver their own sons or daughters. Their righteousness could deliver only themselves.

21 For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem My four dire judgments—sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague—in order to cut off from it both man and beast?

22 Yet, behold, some survivors will be left in it—sons and daughters who will be brought out. They will come out to you, and when you see their conduct and actions, you will be comforted regarding the disaster I have brought upon Jerusalem—all that I have brought upon it.

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Ezekiel 14:14

then even if these three men—Noah, Daniel, and Job—were in it, their righteousness could deliver only themselves, declares the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 14:16

then as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, even if these three men were in it, they could not deliver their own sons or daughters. They alone would be delivered, but the land would be desolate.

Ezekiel 18:20

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Ezekiel 18:22

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Job 5:19

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Job 5:20

In famine He will redeem you from death, and in battle from the stroke of the sword.

Job 5:21

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Job 5:22

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Job 5:23

For you will have a covenant with the stones of the field, and the wild animals will be at peace with you.

Job 5:24

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Hosea 10:12

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Zephaniah 2:3

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1 John 3:10

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