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 your people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.
• Mal 3:13–15“Your words have been stout against me,” says Yahweh. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against you?’
• Zeph 3:5Yahweh, within her, is righteous. He will do no wrong. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He doesn’t fail, but the unjust know no shame.
• Ezek 33:20Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. House of Israel, I will judge every one of you after his ways.
• Mal 2:17You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, ‘How have we wearied him?’ In that you say, ‘Everyone who does evil is good in Yahweh’s sight, and he delights in them;’ or ‘Where is the God of justice?’
• Jer 12:1You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?
• Gen 18:25Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”
• Ezek 18:29Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair.’ House of Israel, aren’t my ways fair? Aren’t your ways unfair?
• Rom 2:5–6But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;
• Rom 10:3For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
• Rom 9:20But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”
• Job 35:2“Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s,’
• Job 34:5–10For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, God has taken away my right:
• Jer 2:17–23“Haven’t you brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way?
• Rom 3:20Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
• Jer 2:29–37“Why will you contend with me? You all have transgressed against me,” says Yahweh.
• Ps 50:21You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.
• Matt 20:11–15When they received it, they murmured against the master of the household,
• Deut 32:4The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.
• Rom 3:5But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.
• Ps 145:17Yahweh is righteous in all his ways, and gracious in all his works.
• Jer 16:10–13It shall happen, when you shall show this people all these words, and they ask you, ‘Why has Yahweh pronounced all this great evil against us?’ or ‘What is our iniquity? or ‘What is our sin that we have committed against Yahweh our God?’
• Job 40:8Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?
• Job 42:4–6You said, ‘Listen, now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.’
• Ps 50:6The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah.
• Job 32:2Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath was kindled because he justified himself rather than God.

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