Ezekiel 18:25 Cross References

Ezekiel 18:25

25: "Yet you say, `The Lord isn't being just!' Listen to me, O people of Israel. Am I the one who is unjust, or is it you?

Ezekiel 33:17

  1. "Your people are saying, `The Lord is not just,' but it is they who are not just.

Malachi 3:13

  1. "You have said terrible things about me," says the LORD. "But you say, `What do you mean? How have we spoken against you?'
  2. "You have said, `What's the use of serving God? What have we gained by obeying his commands or by trying to show the LORD Almighty that we are sorry for our sins?
  3. From now on we will say, "Blessed are the arrogant." For those who do evil get rich, and those who dare God to punish them go free of harm.'"

Zephaniah 3:5

  1. But the LORD is still there in the city, and he does no wrong. Day by day his justice is more evident, but no one takes notice--the wicked know no shame.

Jeremiah 12:1

  1. LORD, you always give me justice when I bring a case before you. Now let me bring you this complaint: Why are the wicked so prosperous? Why are evil people so happy?

Ezekiel 33:20

  1. O people of Israel, you are saying, `The Lord is not just.' But I will judge each of you according to your deeds."

Genesis 18:25

  1. Surely you wouldn't do such a thing, destroying the innocent with the guilty. Why, you would be treating the innocent and the guilty exactly the same! Surely you wouldn't do that! Should not the Judge of all the earth do what is right?"

Malachi 2:17

  1. You have wearied the LORD with your words. "Wearied him?" you ask. "How have we wearied him?" You have wearied him by suggesting that the LORD favors evildoers since he does not punish them. You have wearied him by asking, "Where is the God of justice?"

Ezekiel 18:29

  1. And yet the people of Israel keep saying, `The Lord is unjust!' O people of Israel, it is you who are unjust, not I.

Psalms 50:21

  1. While you did all this, I remained silent, and you thought I didn't care. But now I will rebuke you, listing all my charges against you.

Romans 3:20

  1. For no one can ever be made right in God's sight by doing what his law commands. For the more we know God's law, the clearer it becomes that we aren't obeying it.

Jeremiah 16:10

  1. "When you tell the people all these things, they will ask, `Why has the LORD decreed such terrible things against us? What have we done to deserve such treatment? What is our sin against the LORD our God?'
  2. Tell them that this is the LORD's reply: It is because your ancestors were unfaithful to me. They worshiped other gods and served them. They abandoned me. They did not keep my law.
  3. And you are even worse than your ancestors! You stubbornly follow your own evil desires and refuse to listen to me.
  4. So I will throw you out of this land and send you into a foreign land where you and your ancestors have never been. There you can worship idols all you like--and I will grant you no favors!

Job 32:2

  1. Then Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite, of the clan of Ram, became angry. He was angry because Job refused to admit that he had sinned and that God was right in punishing him.

Job 34:5

  1. For Job has said, `I am innocent, but God has taken away my rights.
  2. I am innocent, but they call me a liar. My suffering is incurable, even though I have not sinned.'
  3. "Has there ever been a man as arrogant as Job, with his thirst for irreverent talk?
  4. He seeks the companionship of evil people. He spends his time with wicked men.
  5. He has even said, `Why waste time trying to please God?'

Romans 3:5

  1. "But," some say, "our sins serve a good purpose, for people will see God's goodness when he declares us sinners to be innocent. Isn't it unfair, then, for God to punish us?" (That is actually the way some people talk.)

Jeremiah 2:29

  1. Why do you accuse me of doing wrong? You are the ones who have rebelled, says the LORD.
  2. I have punished your children, but it did them no good. They still refuse to obey. You yourselves have killed your prophets as a lion kills its prey.
  3. "O my people, listen to the words of the LORD! Have I been like a desert to Israel? Have I been to them a land of darkness? Why then do my people say, `At last we are free from God! We won't have anything to do with him anymore!'
  4. Does a young woman forget her jewelry? Does a bride hide her wedding dress? No! Yet for years on end my people have forgotten me.
  5. "How you plot and scheme to win your lovers. The most experienced prostitute could learn from you!

Job 40:8

  1. Are you going to discredit my justice and condemn me so you can say you are right?

Matthew 20:11

  1. When they received their pay, they protested,
  2. 'Those people worked only one hour, and yet you've paid them just as much as you paid us who worked all day in the scorching heat.'
  3. "He answered one of them, 'Friend, I haven't been unfair! Didn't you agree to work all day for the usual wage?
  4. Take it and go. I wanted to pay this last worker the same as you.
  5. Is it against the law for me to do what I want with my money? Should you be angry because I am kind?'

Job 35:2

  1. "Do you think it is right for you to claim, `I am righteous before God'?

Romans 2:5

  1. But no, you won't listen. So you are storing up terrible punishment for yourself because of your stubbornness in refusing to turn from your sin. For there is going to come a day of judgment when God, the just judge of all the world,
  2. will judge all people according to what they have done.

Romans 10:3

  1. For they don't understand God's way of making people right with himself. Instead, they are clinging to their own way of getting right with God by trying to keep the law. They won't go along with God's way.

Deuteronomy 32:4

  1. He is the Rock; his work is perfect. Everything he does is just and fair. He is a faithful God who does no wrong; how just and upright he is!

Romans 9:20

  1. No, don't say that. Who are you, a mere human being, to criticize God? Should the thing that was created say to the one who made it, "Why have you made me like this?"

Psalms 145:17

  1. The LORD is righteous in everything he does; he is filled with kindness.

Psalms 50:6

  1. Then let the heavens proclaim his justice, for God himself will be the judge.

Jeremiah 2:17

  1. And you have brought this on yourselves by rebelling against the LORD your God when he wanted to lead you and show you the way!
  2. "What have you gained by your alliances with Egypt and Assyria? What good to you are the waters of the Nile and the Euphrates?
  3. Your own wickedness will punish you. You will see what an evil, bitter thing it is to forsake the LORD your God, having no fear of him. I, the Lord, the LORD Almighty, have spoken!
  4. Long ago I broke your yoke and tore away the chains of your slavery, but still you would not obey me. On every hill and under every green tree, you have prostituted yourselves by bowing down to idols.
  5. "How could this happen? When I planted you, I chose a vine of the purest stock--the very best. How did you grow into this corrupt wild vine?

Job 42:4

  1. "You said, `Listen and I will speak! I have some questions for you, and you must answer them.'
  2. "I had heard about you before, but now I have seen you with my own eyes.
  3. I take back everything I said, and I sit in dust and ashes to show my repentance."
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