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Ezekiel 33:17
Ezekiel 33:17 is verse 17 of Ezekiel chapter 33, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Yet your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But it is their way that is not just.
King James Version
Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.
World English Bible
“‘Yet the children of your people say, “The way of the Lord is not fair;” but as for them, their way is not fair.
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Ezekiel 33:15–19 · Berean Standard Bible
15 if he restores a pledge, makes restitution for what he has stolen, and walks in the statutes of life without practicing iniquity—then he will surely live; he will not die.
16 None of the sins he has committed will be held against him. He has done what is just and right; he will surely live.
17 Yet your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But it is their way that is not just.
18 If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he will die for it.
19 But if a wicked man turns from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he will live because of this.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Ezekiel 33:20Yet 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.”
Ezekiel 18:25Yet 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?
Ezekiel 18:29Yet 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?
Job 35:2“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’
Job 40:8Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?
Matthew 25:24Finally, the servant who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Master, I knew that you are a hard man, reaping where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed.
Matthew 25:25So I was afraid and went out and hid your talent in the ground. See, you have what belongs to you.’
Matthew 25:26‘You wicked, lazy servant!’ replied his master. ‘You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed.
Luke 19:21For I was afraid of you, because you are a harsh man. You withdraw what you did not deposit and reap what you did not sow.’
Luke 19:22His master replied, ‘You wicked servant, I will judge you by your own words. So you knew that I am a harsh man, withdrawing what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?