Ezekiel 33:20

But you Israeli people still say, ‘What Yahweh does is not fair.’ But I will judge each of you for what you do.”

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O ye house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways.

In Context

19And if a wicked person turns away from his wicked behavior and does what is right and fair [DOU], it is fair for him to remain alive because of doing that.

21Almost twelve years after we had been taken to Babylonia, on the fifth day of the tenth month of that year, a man who had escaped from Jerusalem came to me in Babylon and said, “Jerusalem has been captured!”

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Cross References

Psalms 62:12and that he is the one who faithfully loves us. He rewards every one of us according to the deeds that we do.

Ecclesiastes 12:14And do not forget that God will judge everything that we do, good things and bad things, even things that we do secretly.

Ezekiel 18:29But you Israeli people [MTY] say, ‘Yahweh does not act fairly.’ You people of Israel, my behavior is certainly not [RHQ] unfair! It is your behavior that is not right.

Matthew 16:27Listen carefully: I, the one who came from heaven, will leave this earth, but I will return, and the angels of heaven will accompany me. At that time I will have the glorious radiance that my Father has, and I will reward everyone according to what they did when they were living on earth.

2 Corinthians 5:10And we need to try hard to do that because each one of us believers must stand before Christ to be judged by him { when he will judge his people}. At that time he will reward each one of us according to what we have done while we lived in this world in these bodies. He will reward us according to whether we have done good things or whether we have done evil things.

Revelation 22:12Jesus says this to everyone: “Listen! I am coming soon! And I will pay back everyone according to what each one has done, by punishing or rewarding them.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 33:11-21

The Cavils of the People Answered. ( b. c. 587.) 10 Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel; Thus ye speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live? 11 Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord God , I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel? 12 Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy… Read the whole commentary →

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