Ezekiel 33:17
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Yet your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But it is their way that is not just.”
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“Yet your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But it is their way that is not just.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And the sons of thy people have said: The way of the Lord is not pondered, As to them--their way is not pondered.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Ezekiel 33:17 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 35:2“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’
- Job 40:8Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?
- Ezekiel 18:25Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Hear now, O house of Israel: Is it My way that is unjust? Is it not your ways that are unjust?
- Ezekiel 18:29Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Are My ways unjust, O house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are unjust?
- Ezekiel 33:20Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But I will judge each of you according to his ways, O house of Israel.”
- Matthew 25:24Finally, the servant who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Master, I knew that you are a hard man, reaping where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed.
- Luke 19:21For I was afraid of you, because you are a harsh man. You withdraw what you did not deposit and reap what you did not sow.’
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