Ezekiel 18:25

Can ye then say— The way of My Lord will not be equal? Hear I pray you O house of Israel, Will my way, not be equal? Will not your ways be unequal?

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 a righteous man, shall turn away, from his righteousness and do that which is perverse, Shall do, according to all the abominations which the lawless man hath done, Shall he live? None of his righteous acts which he hath done, shall be remembered, In his treachery wherein he hath been treacherous, And in his sin wherein he hath sinned, In them, shall he die.

26When a righteous man shall turn away from his righteousness and do that which is perverse and die because of those things In his own perversity which he hath done, shall he die.

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Cross References

Genesis 18:25Far be it from thee! to do after this manner. to put to death the righteous with the lawless! Then should righteous and lawless be alike, Far be it from thee! Shall, the Judge of all the earth not do justice?

Job 15:13For thy spirit, replieth against GOD, and thou bringest forth—out of thy mouth—words!

Job 34:5For Job hath said—I am righteous, But, GOD, hath turned away my right;

Job 40:8Wilt thou even frustrate my justice? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest appear right?

Psalms 50:6Now have the heavens declared his righteousness, Because, God, is, about to judge. [Selah.]

Psalms 145:17Righteous is Yahweh 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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