You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, Till iniquity 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.
- BSB From the day you were created you were blameless in your ways—until wickedness 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 didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;
- Ezek 28:17–18Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your brightness: I have cast you to the ground; I have laid you before kings, that they may see you.
- Rom 7:9I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
- Gen 1:26–27God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
- Ezek 28:3–6behold, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that is hidden from you;
- Ezek 28:12Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and tell him, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You were the seal of full measure, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
- Ezek 27:3–4and tell Tyre, you who dwell at the entry of the sea, who are the merchant of the peoples to many islands, thus says the Lord Yahweh: You, Tyre, have said, I am perfect in beauty.
- Lam 5:16The crown is fallen from our head: Woe to us! for we have sinned.
- Isa 14:12How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!
- Eccl 7:29Behold, I have only found this: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes.”
- Gen 1:31God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.
- Gen 6:5–6Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.
- Prov 14:34Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.
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