Ezekiel 18:25

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?

Way

My

Romans 2:5

Are

Psalm 50:21

Jeremiah 2:17

Jeremiah 16:10

General references

Ezekiel 18:29

Ezekiel 33:17

Bible References

Way

But the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not right.’ Are My ways not right, O house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are not right?

“Yet your fellow citizens say, ‘The way of the Lord is not right,’ when it is their own way that is not right.

But the anger of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram burned; against Job his anger burned because he justified himself

before God.

“For Job has said, ‘I am righteous,
But God has taken away my right;

“Do you think this is according to justice?
Do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s’?

“Will you really annul My judgment?
Will you condemn Me that you may be justified?

‘Hear, now, and I will speak;
I will ask You, and You instruct me.’

You have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet you say, “How have we wearied Him?” In that you say, “Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and He delights in them,” or, “Where is the God of justice?”

“Your words have been arrogant against Me,” says the Lord. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against You?’

When they received it, they grumbled at the landowner,

But if our unrighteousness

demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? The God who inflicts wrath is not unrighteous, is He? (I am speaking in human terms.)

On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, “Why did you make me like this,” will it?

For not knowing about God’s righteousness and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

My

Far be it from You to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Shall not the Judge of all the earth deal justly?”

“The Rock! His work is perfect,

For all His ways are just;

A God of faithfulness and without injustice,

Righteous and upright is He.

And the heavens declare His righteousness,
For God Himself is judge.

Selah.

The Lord is righteous in all His ways
And kind in all His deeds.

Righteous are You, O Lord, that I would plead my case with You;

Indeed I would discuss matters of justice with You:
Why has the way of the wicked prospered?
Why are all those who deal in treachery at ease?

The Lord is righteous within her;
He will do no injustice.

Every morning He brings His justice to light;

He does not fail.
But the unjust knows no shame.

But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

Are

“These things you have done and I kept silence;
You thought that I was just like you;
I will reprove you and state the case in order before your eyes.

“Have you not done this to yourself
By your forsaking the Lord your God
When He led you in the way?

“Now when you tell this people all these words, they will say to you, ‘For what reason has the Lord declared all this great calamity against us? And what is our iniquity, or what is our sin which we have committed against the Lord our God?’

General references

But the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not right.’ Are My ways not right, O house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are not right?

“Yet your fellow citizens say, ‘The way of the Lord is not right,’ when it is their own way that is not right.