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Ezek. 18:25 KJV (With Strong’s)

Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?

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Ezek. 18:29• ²⁹But the house of Israel say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? Is it not your ways that are unequal? (Ezek. 18:29)

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Ezek. 33:17,20• ¹⁷Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.
²⁰Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways. (Ezek. 33:17,20)

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Job 32:2• ²Then was kindled the anger of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram: against Job was his anger kindled, because he justified himself rather than God; (Job 32:2)

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Job 34:5‑10• ⁵For Job hath said, I am righteous, and *God hath taken away my judgment:
⁶Should I lie against my right? My wound is incurable without transgression.
⁷What man is like Job? he drinketh up scorning like water,
⁸And goeth in company with workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
⁹For he hath said, It profiteth not a man if he delight himself in God.
¹⁰Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: Far be wickedness from *God, and wrong from the Almighty! (Job 34:5‑10)

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Job 35:2• ²Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than *God's? (Job 35:2)

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Job 40:8• ⁸Wilt thou also annul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me that thou mayest be righteous? (Job 40:8)

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Job 42:4‑6• ⁴Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and inform me.
⁵I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now mine eye seeth thee:
⁶Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. (Job 42:4‑6)

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Mal. 2:17• ¹⁷Ye have wearied Jehovah with your words, and ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? In that ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of Jehovah, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment? (Mal. 2:17)

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Mal. 3:13‑15• ¹³Your words have been stout against me, saith Jehovah; but ye say, What have we been speaking against thee?
¹⁴Ye say, It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we keep his charge, and that we walk mournfully before Jehovah of hosts?
¹⁵And now we hold the proud for happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and they escape. (Mal. 3:13‑15)

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Matt. 20:11‑15• ¹¹And on receiving it they murmured against the master of the house,
¹²saying, These last have worked one hour, and thou hast made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the heat.
¹³But he answering said to one of them, My friend, I do not wrong thee. Didst thou not agree with me for a denarius?
¹⁴Take what is thine and go. But it is my will to give to this last even as to thee:
¹⁵is it not lawful for me to do what I will in my own affairs? Is thine eye evil because *I* am good? (Matt. 20:11‑15)

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Rom. 3:5,20• ⁵But if our unrighteousness commend God's righteousness, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak according to man.
²⁰Wherefore by works of law no flesh shall be justified before him; for by law is knowledge of sin. (Rom. 3:5,20)

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Rom. 9:20• ²⁰Aye, but thou, O man, who art *thou* that answerest again to God? Shall the thing formed say to him that has formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? (Rom. 9:20)

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Rom. 10:3• ³For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God. (Rom. 10:3)

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Gen. 18:25• ²⁵Far be it from thee to do so, to slay the righteous with the wicked, that the righteous should be as the wicked--far be it from thee! Will not the Judge of all the earth do right? (Gen. 18:25)

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Deut. 32:4• ⁴He is the Rock, his work is perfect, For all his ways are righteousness; A *God of faithfulness without deceit, Just and right is he. (Deut. 32:4)

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Psa. 50:6• ⁶And the heavens shall declare his righteousness; for God executeth judgment himself. Selah. (Psa. 50:6)

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Psa. 145:17• ¹⁷Jehovah is righteous in all his ways, and kind in all his works. (Psa. 145:17)

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Jer. 12:1• ¹Righteous art thou, Jehovah, when I plead with thee; yet will I speak with thee of thy judgments. Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they at ease that deal very treacherously? (Jer. 12:1)

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Zeph. 3:5• ⁵The righteous Jehovah is in the midst of her: he doeth no wrong. Every morning doth he bring his judgment to light; it faileth not: but the unrighteous knoweth no shame. (Zeph. 3:5)

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Rom. 2:5‑6• ⁵but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, treasurest up to thyself wrath, in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,
⁶who shall render to each according to his works: (Rom. 2:5‑6)

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Psa. 50:21• ²¹These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes. (Psa. 50:21)

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Jer. 2:17‑23,29‑37• ¹⁷Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, at the time he was leading thee in the way?
¹⁸And now, what hast thou to do with the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Shihor? And what hast thou to do with the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?
¹⁹Thine own wickedness chastiseth thee, and thy backslidings reprove thee: know then and see that it is an evil thing and bitter that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.
²⁰For of old thou hast broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not serve. For upon every high hill, and under every green tree, thou bowest down, playing the harlot.
²¹And I,--I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed; how then art thou turned into the degenerate shoots of a strange vine unto me?
²²For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much potash, thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord Jehovah.
²³How sayest thou, I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baals? See thy way in the valley, acknowledge what thou hast done--a swift dromedary traversing her ways!
²⁹Wherefore would ye contend with me? Ye all have transgressed against me, saith Jehovah.
³⁰In vain have I smitten your children: they received no correction. Your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
³¹O generation, mark ye the word of Jehovah. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel, or a land of thick darkness? Wherefore say my people, We have dominion; we will come no more unto thee?
³²Doth a virgin forget her ornaments, a bride her attire? But my people have forgotten me days without number.
³³How dost thou trim thy way to seek love! Therefore hast thou also accustomed thy ways to wickedness.
³⁴Yea, in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor, whom thou didst not encounter breaking in, but it is found upon all these.
³⁵And thou sayest, Indeed I am innocent; his anger will turn from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with thee because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
³⁶Why dost thou gad about so much, and change thy way? Thou shalt also be brought to shame by Egypt, as thou wast brought to shame by Assyria.
³⁷Thou shalt indeed go forth from her with thy hands upon thy head; for Jehovah hath rejected those thou confidest in, and thou shalt not prosper by them. (Jer. 2:17‑23,29‑37)

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Jer. 16:10‑13• ¹⁰And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt declare unto this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath Jehovah pronounced all this great evil against us? and what is our iniquity? and what is our sin which we have committed against Jehovah our God?
¹¹then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith Jehovah, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;
¹²and you, ye have done still worse than your fathers; and there ye are walking every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, not to hearken unto me:
¹³and I will cast you forth out of this land, into a land that ye know not, ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night: because I will shew you no favour. (Jer. 16:10‑13)

• The mouth of Israel is closed. Their murmurs were but cavils. Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? (“Notes on Ezekiel 18-19” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

And ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear then, house of Israel. Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?