Ezekiel 18:25
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25 (A)“Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Hear now, O house of Israel: Is my way not just? Is it not your ways that are not just?
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Ezekiel 33:17
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17 “Yet (A)your people say, (B)‘The way of the Lord is not just,’ when it is their own way that is not just.
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Malachi 3:13-15
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13 (A)“Your words have been hard against me, says the Lord. (B)But you say, ‘How have we spoken against you?’ 14 You have said, (C)‘It is vain to serve God. (D)What is the profit of our keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning before the Lord of hosts? 15 And now we call (E)the arrogant blessed. (F)Evildoers not only prosper but (G)they put God to the test and they escape.’”
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Malachi 2:17
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The Messenger of the Lord
17 (A)You have wearied the Lord with your words. (B)But you say, “How have we wearied him?” (C)By saying, “Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delights in them.” Or by asking, (D)“Where is the God of justice?”
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Zephaniah 3:5
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5 The Lord within her (A)is righteous;
he does no injustice;
every morning he shows forth his justice;
each dawn he does not fail;
but (B)the unjust knows no shame.
Ezekiel 33:20
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20 Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ O house of Israel, (A)I will judge each of you according to his ways.”
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Jeremiah 12:1
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Jeremiah's Complaint
12 (A)Righteous are you, O Lord,
when I complain to you;
yet I would plead my case before you.
(B)Why does the way of the wicked prosper?
Why do all (C)who are treacherous thrive?
Genesis 18:25
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25 Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, (A)so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! (B)Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?”
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Ezekiel 18:29
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29 Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ O house of Israel, are my ways not just? Is it not your ways that are not just?
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Romans 10:3
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3 For, being ignorant of (A)the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness.
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Romans 9:20
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20 But who are you, O man, (A)to answer back to God? (B)Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?”
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Romans 3:20
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20 For (A)by works of the law no human being[a] will be justified in his sight, since (B)through the law comes knowledge of sin.
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- Romans 3:20 Greek flesh
Romans 3:5
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5 But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict (A)wrath on us? ((B)I speak in a human way.)
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Romans 2:5-6
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5 But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are (A)storing up (B)wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.
6 (C)He will render to each one according to his works:
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Matthew 20:11-15
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11 And on receiving it they grumbled at the master of the house, 12 saying, ‘These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and (A)the scorching heat.’ 13 But he replied to one of them, (B)‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius? 14 Take (C)what belongs to you and go. I choose to give to this last worker as I give to you. 15 (D)Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or (E)do you begrudge my generosity?’[a]
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- Matthew 20:15 Or is your eye bad because I am good?
Jeremiah 16:10-13
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10 “And when you tell this people all these words, and they say to you, (A)‘Why has the Lord pronounced all this great evil against us? What is our iniquity? What is the sin that we have committed against the Lord our God?’ 11 then you shall say to them: (B)‘Because your fathers have forsaken me, declares the Lord, and (C)have gone after other gods and have served and worshiped them, and have forsaken me and have not kept my law, 12 and because (D)you have done worse than your fathers, for behold, (E)every one of you follows his stubborn, evil will, refusing to listen to me. 13 Therefore (F)I will hurl you out of this land into (G)a land that neither you nor your fathers have known, (H)and there you shall serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.’
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Jeremiah 2:29-37
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29 “Why do you contend with me?
You have all transgressed against me,
declares the Lord.
30 In vain have I (A)struck your children;
they took no correction;
(B)your own sword devoured your prophets
like a ravening lion.
31 And you, O generation, behold the word of the Lord.
Have I been a wilderness to Israel,
or a land of thick darkness?
Why then do my people say, ‘We are free,
we will come no more to you’?
32 (C)Can a virgin forget her ornaments,
or a bride her attire?
Yet (D)my people have forgotten me
days without number.
33 “How well you direct your course
to seek love!
So that even to wicked women
you have taught your ways.
34 Also on your skirts is found
(E)the lifeblood of the guiltless poor;
you did not find them (F)breaking in.
Yet in spite of all these things
35 you say, ‘I am innocent;
surely his anger has turned from me.’
(G)Behold, I will bring you to judgment
for (H)saying, ‘I have not sinned.’
36 (I)How much you go about,
changing your way!
You shall be (J)put to shame by Egypt
as you were put to shame by Assyria.
37 From it too you will come away
with (K)your hands on your head,
for the Lord has rejected those in whom you trust,
and you will not prosper by them.
Jeremiah 2:17-23
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17 (A)Have you not brought this upon yourself
by forsaking the Lord your God,
when (B)he led you in the way?
18 (C)And now what do you gain by going to Egypt
to drink the waters of (D)the Nile?
(E)Or what do you gain by going to Assyria
to drink the waters of (F)the Euphrates?[a]
19 (G)Your evil will chastise you,
and (H)your apostasy will reprove you.
Know and see that it is evil and (I)bitter
for (J)you to forsake the Lord your God;
the fear of me is not in you,
declares the Lord God of hosts.
20 “For long ago I (K)broke your yoke
and burst your bonds;
but you said, (L)‘I will not serve.’
Yes, (M)on every high hill
and under every green tree
you bowed down (N)like a whore.
21 (O)Yet I planted you a choice vine,
wholly of pure seed.
(P)How then have you turned degenerate
and become a wild vine?
22 Though you wash yourself with lye
and use much soap,
(Q)the stain of your guilt is still before me,
declares the Lord God.
23 (R)How can you say, ‘I am not unclean,
I have not gone after the Baals’?
Look at your way (S)in the valley;
know what you have done—
a restless young camel running here and there,
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- Jeremiah 2:18 Hebrew the River
Psalm 145:17
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Psalm 50:21
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21 These things you have done, and I (A)have been silent;
you thought that I[a] was one like yourself.
But now I (B)rebuke you and (C)lay the charge before you.
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- Psalm 50:21 Or that the I am
Psalm 50:6
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Job 42:4-6
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4 ‘Hear, and I will speak;
(A)I will question you, and you make it known to me.’
5 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear,
but now my eye sees you;
6 therefore I despise myself,
and repent[a] in (B)dust and ashes.”
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- Job 42:6 Or and am comforted
Job 40:8
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8 Will you even put me in the wrong?
Will you condemn me that (A)you may be in the right?
Job 35:2
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2 “Do you think this to be just?
Do you say, (A)‘It is my right before God,’
Job 34:5-10
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5 For Job has said, ‘I am (A)in the right,
and (B)God has taken away my right;
6 in spite of my right I am counted a liar;
my wound is incurable, though I am (C)without transgression.’
7 What man is like Job,
who (D)drinks up scoffing like water,
8 who travels in company with evildoers
and walks (E)with wicked men?
9 For (F)he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing
that he should take delight in God.’
10 “Therefore, hear me, you men of understanding:
far be it from God that he should (G)do wickedness,
and from the Almighty that he should do wrong.
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