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 the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.
• Mal 3:13–15Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?
• Zeph 3:5The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.
• Ezek 33:20Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O ye house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways.
• Mal 2:17Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?
• Jer 12:1Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
• Gen 18:25That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
• Ezek 18:29Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the LORD is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?
• Rom 2:5–6But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
• Rom 10:3For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
• Rom 9:20Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
• Job 35:2Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God’s?
• Job 34:5–10For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.
• Jer 2:17–23Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?
• Rom 3:20Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
• Jer 2:29–37Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD.
• Ps 50:21These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
• Matt 20:11–15And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house,
• Deut 32:4He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
• Rom 3:5But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)
• Ps 145:17The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.
• Jer 16:10–13And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?
• Job 40:8Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?
• Job 42:4–6Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
• Ps 50:6And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.
• Job 32:2Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.

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