From the day you were created you were blameless in your ways—until wickedness was found in you.
Parallel translations
- WEB You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, until unrighteousness was found in you.
- KJV Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
- NKJV You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, Till iniquity was found in you.
- NASB “You were blameless in your ways From the day you were created Until unrighteousness was found in you.
- NLT “You were blameless in all you did from the day you were created until the day evil was found in you.
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Quick answer
He was blameless from his creation until unrighteousness was found in him. The verse pinpoints sin as the cause of his ruin.
Overview
The king's initial integrity highlights that his downfall was not God's making but the entrance of iniquity. The phrase "until unrighteousness was found in you" marks the turning point from glory to guilt. This pattern, original goodness corrupted by sin, mirrors the human fall and underscores that judgment falls justly on chosen rebellion, not on the Creator who made all things good.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- 2 Pet 2:4For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;
- Ezek 28:17–18Your heart grew proud of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor; so I cast you to the earth; I made you a spectacle before kings.
- Rom 7:9Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
- Gen 1:26–27Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”
- Ezek 28:3–6Behold, you are wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you!
- Ezek 28:12“Son of man, take up a lament for the king of Tyre and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
- Ezek 27:3–4Tell Tyre, who dwells at the gateway to the sea, merchant of the peoples on many coasts, that this is what the Lord GOD says: You have said, O Tyre, ‘I am perfect in beauty.’
- Lam 5:16The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
- Isa 14:12How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations.
- Eccl 7:29Only this have I found: I have discovered that God made men upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”
- Gen 1:31And God looked upon all that He had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
- Gen 6:5–6Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.
- Prov 14:34Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.
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