Ezekiel 18:25

But you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Give ear, now, O children of Israel; is my way not equal? are not your ways unequal?

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In The King James Version

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?

In Context

24But when the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, like all the disgusting things which the evil man does, will he have life? Not one of his upright acts will be kept in memory: in the wrong which he has done and in his sin death will overtake him.

26When the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, death will overtake him; in the evil which he has done death will overtake him.

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Cross References

Genesis 18:25Let such a thing be far from you, to put the upright to death with the sinner: will not the judge of all the earth do right?

Job 15:13So that you are turning your spirit against God, and letting such words go out of your mouth?

Job 34:5For Job has said, I am upright, and it is God who has taken away my right;

Job 40:8\40:13\Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld.

Psalms 50:6And let the heavens make clear his righteousness; for God himself is the judge. (Selah.)

Psalms 145:17The Lord is upright in all his ways, and kind in all his works.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 18:22-30

Encouragement to Repentance. ( b. c. 593.) 21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. 22 All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live. 23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord God : and not that he should return from his ways, and live? 24 But when the… Read the whole commentary →

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