Ezekiel 18:25

The people charge that God's way is unfair, but He answers that their own ways are unfair. God's justice is perfectly equal.

Cross-references · 26

• Ezek 33:17Yet your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But it is their way that is not just.
• Mal 3:13–15“Your words against Me have been harsh,” says the LORD. “Yet you ask, ‘What have we spoken against You?’
• Zeph 3:5The LORD within her is righteous; He does no wrong. He applies His justice morning by morning; He does not fail at dawn, yet the unjust know no shame.
• Ezek 33:20Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But I will judge each of you according to his ways, O house of Israel.”
• Mal 2:17You have wearied the LORD with your words; yet you ask, “How have we wearied Him?” By saying, “All who do evil are good in the sight of the LORD, and in them He delights,” or, “Where is the God of justice?”
• Jer 12:1Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?
• Gen 18:25Far be it from You to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Will not the Judge of all the earth do what is right?”
• Ezek 18:29Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Are My ways unjust, O house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are unjust?
• Rom 2:5–6But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
• Rom 10:3Because they were ignorant of God’s righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.
• Rom 9:20But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”
• Job 35:2“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’
• Job 34:5–10For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.
• Jer 2:17–23Have you not brought this on yourself by forsaking the LORD your God when He led you in the way?
• Rom 3:20Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.
• Jer 2:29–37Why do you bring a case against Me? You have all rebelled against Me,” declares the LORD.
• Ps 50:21You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to your face.
• Matt 20:11–15On receiving their pay, they began to grumble against the landowner.
• Deut 32:4He is the Rock, His work is perfect; all His ways are just. A God of faithfulness without injustice, righteous and upright is He.
• Rom 3:5But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict His wrath on us? I am speaking in human terms.
• Ps 145:17The LORD is righteous in all His ways and kind in all His deeds.
• Jer 16:10–13When you tell these people all these things, they will ask you, ‘Why has the LORD pronounced all this great disaster against us? What is our guilt? What is the sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?’
• Job 40:8Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?
• Job 42:4–6You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak. I will question you, and you shall inform Me.’
• Ps 50:6And the heavens proclaim His righteousness, for God Himself is Judge. Selah
• Job 32:2This kindled the anger of Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram. He burned with anger against Job for justifying himself rather than God,

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