Ezekiel 33:17
Yet the children of your people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.
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18When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die thereby.
Cross References
Job 35:2Think you this to be right, that you said, My righteousness is more than God's?
Ezekiel 18:25Yet all of 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?
Ezekiel 33:20Yet all of you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O all of you house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways.
Luke 19:21For I feared you, because you are an austere man: you take up that you layed not down, and reap that you did not sow.
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 →