Ezekiel 18:29

KJV1611 – Modern English

Yet says the house of Israel, ‘The way of the Lord is not equal.’ O house of Israel, are not My ways equal? Are not your ways unequal?

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  • Prov 19:3 : 3 The foolishness of man perverts his way, and his heart frets against the LORD.
  • Ezek 18:2 : 2 What do you mean by using this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge’?
  • Ezek 18:25 : 25 Yet you 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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    23Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? says the Lord GOD, and not that he should return from his ways and live?

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    26When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies in them; for his iniquity that he has done he shall die.

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    19But if the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall live because of it.

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    32Not for your sakes do I this, says the Lord GOD, be it known to you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.

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    10Therefore, O son of man, speak to the house of Israel; this is what you speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and we waste away in them, how should we then live?

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