Ezekiel 33:17

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

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  • Ezek 18:25 : 25 Yet you say, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' Hear me, O house of Israel: Is my way unjust? Is it not your ways that are unjust?
  • Ezek 18:29 : 29 Yet the house of Israel says, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' Are my ways unjust, house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are unjust?
  • Ezek 33:20 : 20 Yet you say, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' But I will judge each of you according to your own ways, house of Israel.
  • Matt 25:24-26 : 24 Then the servant who had received one talent came and said, ‘Master, I knew that you are a hard man, harvesting where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed. 25 So I was afraid and went out and hid your talent in the ground. See, here is what belongs to you.’ 26 His master answered, ‘You wicked and lazy servant! You knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered.
  • Luke 19:21-22 : 21 'For I was afraid of you, because you are a harsh man. You take what you did not deposit, and reap what you did not sow.' 22 He said to him, 'I will judge you by your own words, you wicked servant! You knew, did you, that I am a harsh man, taking what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?'
  • Job 35:2 : 2 Do you think this is justice, when you say, 'My righteousness is greater than God's'?
  • Job 40:8 : 8 Would you indeed annul My justice? Would you condemn Me that you may be justified?

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    24But if a righteous person turns away from their righteousness and commits sin, doing the same detestable things the wicked do, will they live? None of the righteous deeds they have done will be remembered. Because of the unfaithfulness they are guilty of and because of the sins they have committed, they will die.

    25Yet you say, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' Hear me, O house of Israel: Is my way unjust? Is it not your ways that are unjust?

    26If a righteous person turns from their righteousness and commits sin, they will die for it; because of the sin they have committed, they will die.

  • Ezek 18:29-30
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    29Yet the house of Israel says, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' Are my ways unjust, house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are unjust?

    30Therefore, house of Israel, I will judge each of you according to your own ways, declares the Sovereign Lord. Repent! Turn away from all your offenses; then sin will not be your downfall.

  • Ezek 33:18-20
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    18If a righteous person turns from their righteousness and commits iniquity, they will die because of it.

    19But if a wicked person turns away from their wickedness and does what is just and right, they will live because of it.

    20Yet you say, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' But I will judge each of you according to your own ways, house of Israel.

  • Ezek 33:12-14
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    12Therefore, son of man, say to your people, 'The righteousness of the righteous person will not save them on the day of their transgression, nor will the wickedness of the wicked person cause them to fall on the day they turn from their wickedness. The righteous person cannot live by their righteousness on the day they sin.'

    13If I say to the righteous person, 'You will surely live,' but they trust in their righteousness and commit iniquity, none of their righteous acts will be remembered. They will die because of the iniquity they have committed.

    14And if I say to the wicked person, 'You will surely die,' but they turn from their sin and do what is just and right—

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    17You have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet you ask, 'How have we wearied Him?' By saying, 'Everyone who does evil is good in the eyes of the Lord, and He delights in them,' or 'Where is the God of justice?'

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    16None of the sins they have committed will be remembered against them. They have done what is just and right; they will surely live.

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    18But his father, because he practiced extortion, robbed his own people, and did what was not good among them—behold, he will die for his iniquity.

    19Yet you ask, ‘Why does the son not bear the guilt of his father?’ Since the son has done what is just and right, has carefully observed all my statutes, and has kept them, he will surely live.

    20The soul who sins will die. The son will not bear the guilt of the father, nor the father bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous will be credited to them, and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged against them.

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    8The way of the guilty is crooked, but the conduct of the pure is upright.

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    8The way of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their ways. They have made their paths crooked; whoever walks in them does not know peace.

  • Isa 3:9
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    9The look on their faces testifies against them, and like Sodom, they openly declare their sin; they do not try to conceal it. Woe to them! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.

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    7They say, "The LORD does not see; the God of Jacob does not perceive."

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    30As for you, son of man, the people of your nation are talking about you near the walls and at the doorways of their houses. They are saying to one another, each to their brother, 'Come and hear the message that has come from the LORD.'

    31They come to you as people come, and they sit before you as My people and hear your words, but they do not put them into practice. With their mouths they express love, but their hearts pursue unjust gain.

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    10This is what the LORD says about this people: They love to wander; they do not restrain their feet. So the LORD does not accept them; now He will remember their guilt and punish their sins.

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    2Even when they say, 'As surely as the Lord lives,' they swear falsely.

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    17And the way of peace they have not known.

  • Isa 5:23
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    23who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deny justice to the righteous!

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    27For they persecute those you have struck, and they recount the pain of those you have wounded.

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  • Job 34:27
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    27Because they turned away from following Him and did not regard any of His ways,

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    14Therefore, the LORD has kept the disaster in store and brought it upon us, for the LORD our God is righteous in everything He does, yet we have not obeyed His voice.

  • Ezek 3:20
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    20Again, if a righteous person turns from his righteousness and does wrong, and I put a stumbling block before him, he will die. Since you did not warn him, he will die in his sin. His righteous acts will not be remembered, and I will hold you accountable for his blood.

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    21But as for those whose hearts follow their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their conduct down upon their own heads, declares the Lord God.

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    4Then I thought, 'These are only the poor; they are foolish because they do not know the way of the Lord, the justice of their God.'

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    27Why do you say, Jacob, and complain, Israel, 'My way is hidden from the Lord; my cause is disregarded by my God'?

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    17They keep saying to those who despise the LORD, ‘The LORD says you will have peace.’ And to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his heart they say, ‘No harm will come to you.’

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    24Whoever says to the wicked, 'You are righteous,' the peoples will curse him, and the nations will denounce him.

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    22None of the offenses they have committed will be remembered against them. Because of the righteousness they have practiced, they will live.

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    27Therefore, speak to the house of Israel, son of man, and say to them, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Yet in this, your fathers blasphemed me by acting treacherously against me.'

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