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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• ²⁹Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of Jehovah is not equal. Ο house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways 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. Ο ye house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways. (Ezek. 33:17,20)

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Job 32:2• ²And the anger of Elihu, son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, burned: against Job his anger burned, because of his justifying himself rather than God; (Job 32:2)

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Job 34:5‑10• ⁵For Job hath said, I am righteous,{HR}And God [El] hath turned aside my right:
⁶Against my right I shall lie.{HR}My wound [is] mortal, without transgression.
⁷Who [is] a man like Job?{HR}He drinketh mockery like water,
⁸And goeth in company with workers of iniquity,{HR}So as to go with men of wickedness;
⁹For he hath said, It profiteth not a man{HR}That he should delight himself with God.
¹⁰Therefore, hear me, ye men of heart;{HR}Far be it from God [El] to do wickedness,{HR}And [from] Shaddai to do perverseness. (Job 34:5‑10)

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Job 35:2• ²Hast thou counted this for judgment,{HR}[That] thou hast said, I am more right than God? (Job 35:2)

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Job 40:8• ⁸Wilt thou also annul my judgment?{HR}Wilt thou condemn me that thou mayest be justified? (Job 40:8)

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Job 42:4‑6• ⁴Hear, I pray thee, and I will speak:{HR}I ask thee, and make thou me to know.
⁵By the hearing of the ear I heard thee;{HR}But now mine eye seeth thee:
⁶Therefore do I loathe [myself],{HR}And repent in dust and ashes. (Job 42:4‑6)

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Mal. 2:17• ¹⁷Ye have wearied Jehovah with your words; yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When 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. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?
¹⁴Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before Jehovah of hosts?
¹⁵And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered. (Mal. 3:13‑15)

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Matt. 20:11‑15• ¹¹And when they received it, they murmured against the householder,
¹²saying, These last have spent one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.
¹³But he answered and said to one of them, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a denary?
¹⁴Take up that [which is] thine, and go thy way; it is my will to give unto this last, even as unto thee.
¹⁵Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? or 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 inflicteth 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• ²⁰Nay rather, O man, who art thou that answerest against God? Shall the thing moulded say to him that moulded, Why madest thou me thus? (Rom. 9:20)

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

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Gen. 18:25• ²⁵{i}Far 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?{/i} (Gen. 18:25)

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Deut. 32:4• ⁴{i}He is the Rock{/i}, his doing is perfect:{HR}For all his ways are judgment:{HR}A God of truth without iniquity,{HR}Just and right is he. (Deut. 32:4)

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Psa. 50:6• ⁶And the heavens declare his righteousness for God [is] judge himself. Selah. (Psa. 50:6)

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Psa. 145:17• ¹⁷Righteous [is] Jehovah in all his ways,{HR}And gracious in all his works. (Psa. 145:17)

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Jer. 12:1• ¹Righteous art thou, O Jehovah, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously? (Jer. 12:1)

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Zeph. 3:5• ⁵The just Jehovah is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame. (Zeph. 3:5)

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Rom. 2:5‑6• ⁵But according to thy hardness and unrepentant heart thou treasurest to thyself wrath in [the] day of wrath and revelation of God's righteous judgment,
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;{HR}Thou thoughtest I was altogether, like thee.{HR}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• ¹⁷{i}Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, at the time he was leading thee in the way?{/i}
¹⁸{i}And 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?{/i}
¹⁹{i}Thine 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.{/i}
²⁰{i}For 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.{/i}
²¹{i}And 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?{/i}
²²{i}For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much potash, thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord Jehovah.{/i}
²³{i}How 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!{/i}
²⁹{i}Wherefore would ye contend with me? Ye all have transgressed against me, saith Jehovah.{/i}
³⁰{i}In vain have I smitten your children: they received no correction. Your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.{/i}
³¹{i}O 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?{/i}
³²{i}Doth a virgin forget her ornaments, a bride her attire? But my people have forgotten me days without number.{/i}
³³{i}How dost thou trim thy way to seek love! Therefore hast thou also accustomed thy ways to wickedness.{/i}
³⁴{i}Yea, 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.{/i}
³⁵{i}And 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.{/i}
³⁶{i}Why 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.{/i}
³⁷{i}Thou 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.{/i} (Jer. 2:17‑23,29‑37)

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Jer. 16:10‑13• ¹⁰And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt show this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath Jehovah pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that 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 ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:
¹³therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not show you 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?

W. Kelly Translation

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