Genesis 18:25

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Far be it from Thee to do according to this thing, to put to death the righteous with the wicked; that it hath been -- as the righteous so the wicked -- far be it from Thee; doth the Judge of all the earth not do justice?'

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  • Deut 32:4 : 4 The Rock! -- perfect `is' His work, For all His ways `are' just; God of stedfastness, and without iniquity: Righteous and upright `is' He.
  • Job 8:3 : 3 Doth God pervert judgment? And doth the Mighty One pervert justice?
  • Job 8:20 : 20 Lo, God doth not reject the perfect, Nor taketh hold on the hand of evil doers.
  • Isa 3:10-11 : 10 Say ye to the righteous, that `it is' good, Because the fruit of their doings they eat. 11 Wo to the wicked -- evil, Because the deed of his hand is done to him.
  • Ps 58:11 : 11 And man saith: `Surely fruit `is' for the righteous: Surely there is a God judging in the earth!'
  • Ps 94:2 : 2 Be lifted up, O Judge of the earth, Send back a recompence on the proud.
  • Ps 98:9 : 9 Before Jehovah, For He hath come to judge the earth, He judgeth the world in righteousness, And the people in uprightness!
  • Eccl 7:15 : 15 The whole I have considered in the days of my vanity. There is a righteous one perishing in his righteousness, and there is a wrong-doer prolonging `himself' in his wrong.
  • Eccl 8:12-13 : 12 Though a sinner is doing evil a hundred `times', and prolonging `himself' for it, surely also I know that there is good to those fearing God, who fear before Him. 13 And good is not to the wicked, and he doth not prolong days as a shadow, because he is not fearing before God.
  • Job 9:22-23 : 22 It is the same thing, therefore I said, `The perfect and the wicked He is consuming.' 23 If a scourge doth put to death suddenly, At the trial of the innocent He laugheth.
  • Job 34:17-19 : 17 Yea, doth one hating justice govern? Or the Most Just dost thou condemn? 18 Who hath said to a king -- `Worthless,' Unto princes -- `Wicked?' 19 That hath not accepted the person of princes, Nor hath known the rich before the poor, For a work of His hands `are' all of them.
  • Ps 11:5-7 : 5 Jehovah the righteous doth try. And the wicked and the lover of violence, Hath His soul hated, 6 He poureth on the wicked snares, fire, and brimstone, And a horrible wind `is' the portion of their cup. 7 For righteous `is' Jehovah, Righteousness He hath loved, The upright doth His countenance see!'
  • Isa 57:1-2 : 1 The righteous hath perished, And there is none laying `it' to heart, And men of kindness are gathered, Without any considering that from the face of evil Gathered is the righteous one. 2 He entereth into peace, they rest on their beds, `Each' is going straightforward.
  • Jer 12:1 : 1 Righteous `art' Thou, O Jehovah, When I plead towards thee, Only, judgments do I speak with Thee, Wherefore did the way of the wicked prosper? At rest have been all treacherous dealers.
  • Mal 3:18 : 18 And ye have turned back and considered, Between the righteous and the wicked, Between the servant of God and him who is not His servant.
  • John 5:22-27 : 22 for neither doth the Father judge any one, but all the judgment He hath given to the Son, 23 that all may honour the Son according as they honour the Father; he who is not honouring the Son, doth not honour the Father who sent him. 24 `Verily, verily, I say to you -- He who is hearing my word, and is believing Him who sent me, hath life age-during, and to judgment he doth not come, but hath passed out of the death to the life. 25 `Verily, verily, I say to you -- There cometh an hour, and it now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and those having heard shall live; 26 for, as the Father hath life in himself, so He gave also to the Son to have life in himself, 27 and authority He gave him also to do judgment, because he is Son of Man.
  • Rom 3:5-6 : 5 And, if our unrighteousness God's righteousness doth establish, what shall we say? is God unrighteous who is inflicting the wrath? (after the manner of a man I speak) 6 let it not be! since how shall God judge the world?
  • 2 Cor 5:10 : 10 for all of us it behoveth to be manifested before the tribunal of the Christ, that each one may receive the things `done' through the body, in reference to the things that he did, whether good or evil;

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