Ezekiel 18:25

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Ezekiel 18:23–27 · Berean Standard Bible

23 Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Lord GOD. Wouldn’t I prefer that he turn from his ways and live?

24 But if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity, committing the same abominations as the wicked, will he live? None of the righteous acts he did will be remembered. Because of the unfaithfulness and sin he has committed, he will die.

25 Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Hear now, O house of Israel: Is it My way that is unjust? Is it not your ways that are unjust?

26 If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity, he will die for this. He will die because of the iniquity he has committed.

27 But if a wicked man turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will save his life.

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Ezekiel 18:29

Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Are My ways unjust, O house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are unjust?

Ezekiel 33:17

Yet your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But it is their way that is not just.

Ezekiel 33:20

Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But I will judge each of you according to his ways, O house of Israel.”

Job 32:2

This kindled the anger of Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram. He burned with anger against Job for justifying himself rather than God,

Job 34:5

For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.

Job 34:6

Would I lie about my case? My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’

Job 34:7

What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?

Job 34:8

He keeps company with evildoers and walks with wicked men.

Job 34:9

For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight in God.’

Job 34:10

Therefore listen to me, O men of understanding. Far be it from God to do wrong, and from the Almighty to act unjustly.

Job 35:2

“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’

Job 40:8

Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?

Job 42:4

You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak. I will question you, and you shall inform Me.’

Job 42:5

My ears had heard of You, but now my eyes have seen You.

Job 42:6

Therefore I retract my words, and I repent in dust and ashes.”

Malachi 2:17

You have wearied the LORD with your words; yet you ask, “How have we wearied Him?” By saying, “All who do evil are good in the sight of the LORD, and in them He delights,” or, “Where is the God of justice?”

Malachi 3:13

“Your words against Me have been harsh,” says the LORD. “Yet you ask, ‘What have we spoken against You?’

Malachi 3:14

You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His requirements and walking mournfully before the LORD of Hosts?

Malachi 3:15

So now we call the arrogant blessed. Not only do evildoers prosper, they even test God and escape.’”

Matthew 20:11

On receiving their pay, they began to grumble against the landowner.

Matthew 20:12

‘These men who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden and the scorching heat of the day.’

Matthew 20:13

But he answered one of them, ‘Friend, I am not being unfair to you. Did you not agree with me on one denarius?

Matthew 20:14

Take your pay and go. I want to give this last man the same as I gave you.

Matthew 20:15

Do I not have the right to do as I please with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?’

Romans 3:5

But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict His wrath on us? I am speaking in human terms.

Romans 3:20

Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.

Romans 9:20

But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”

Romans 10:3

Because they were ignorant of God’s righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.

Genesis 18:25

Far be it from You to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Will not the Judge of all the earth do what is right?”

Deuteronomy 32:4

He is the Rock, His work is perfect; all His ways are just. A God of faithfulness without injustice, righteous and upright is He.

Psalms 50:6

And the heavens proclaim His righteousness, for God Himself is Judge. Selah

Psalms 145:17

The LORD is righteous in all His ways and kind in all His deeds.

Jeremiah 12:1

Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?

Zephaniah 3:5

The LORD within her is righteous; He does no wrong. He applies His justice morning by morning; He does not fail at dawn, yet the unjust know no shame.

Romans 2:5

But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.

Romans 2:6

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Psalms 50:21

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Jeremiah 2:17

Have you not brought this on yourself by forsaking the LORD your God when He led you in the way?

Jeremiah 2:18

Now what will you gain on your way to Egypt to drink the waters of the Nile ? What will you gain on your way to Assyria to drink the waters of the Euphrates ?

Jeremiah 2:19

Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of Me,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.

Jeremiah 2:20

“For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.

Jeremiah 2:21

I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine?

Jeremiah 2:22

Although you wash with lye and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your guilt is still before Me,” declares the Lord GOD.

Jeremiah 2:23

“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled; I have not run after the Baals’? Look at your behavior in the valley; acknowledge what you have done. You are a swift young she-camel galloping here and there,

Jeremiah 2:29

Why do you bring a case against Me? You have all rebelled against Me,” declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 2:30

“I have struck your sons in vain; they accepted no discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a voracious lion.”

Jeremiah 2:31

You people of this generation, consider the word of the LORD: “Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of dense darkness? Why do My people say, ‘We are free to roam; we will come to You no more’?

Jeremiah 2:32

Does a maiden forget her jewelry or a bride her wedding sash? Yet My people have forgotten Me for days without number.

Jeremiah 2:33

How skillfully you pursue love! Even the most immoral of women could learn from your ways.

Jeremiah 2:34

Moreover, your skirts are stained with the blood of the innocent poor, though you did not find them breaking in. But in spite of all these things

Jeremiah 2:35

you say, ‘I am innocent. Surely His anger will turn from me.’ Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’

Jeremiah 2:36

How unstable you are, constantly changing your ways! You will be disappointed by Egypt just as you were by Assyria.

Jeremiah 2:37

Moreover, you will leave that place with your hands on your head, for the LORD has rejected those you trust; you will not prosper by their help.”

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When you tell these people all these things, they will ask you, ‘Why has the LORD pronounced all this great disaster against us? What is our guilt? What is the sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?’

Jeremiah 16:11

Then you are to answer them: ‘It is because your fathers have forsaken Me, declares the LORD, and followed other gods, and served and worshiped them. They abandoned Me and did not keep My instruction.

Jeremiah 16:12

And you have done more evil than your fathers. See how each of you follows the stubbornness of his evil heart instead of obeying Me.

Jeremiah 16:13

So I will cast you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your fathers have known. There you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.’