Ezekiel 18:25
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25 “Yet you say, (A)‘The way of the Lord is not fair.’ Hear now, O house of Israel, is it not My way which is fair, and your ways which are not fair?
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Ezekiel 33:17
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17 (A)“Yet the children of your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not [a]fair.’ But it is their way which is not fair!
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- Ezekiel 33:17 Or equitable
Malachi 3:13-15
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The People Complain Harshly
13 “Your(A) words have been [a]harsh against Me,”
Says the Lord,
“Yet you say,
‘What have we spoken against You?’
14 (B)You have said,
‘It is useless to serve God;
What profit is it that we have kept His ordinance,
And that we have walked as mourners
Before the Lord of hosts?
15 So now (C)we call the proud blessed,
For those who do wickedness are [b]raised up;
They even (D)tempt God and go free.’ ”
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- Malachi 3:13 Lit. strong
- Malachi 3:15 Lit. built
Malachi 2:17
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17 (A)You have wearied the Lord with your words;
Yet you say,
“In what way have we wearied Him?”
In that you say,
(B)“Everyone who does evil
Is good in the sight of the Lord,
And He delights in them,”
Or, “Where is the God of justice?”
Zephaniah 3:5
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5 The Lord is righteous in her midst,
He will do no unrighteousness.
[a]Every morning He brings His justice to light;
He never fails,
But (A)the unjust knows no shame.
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- Zephaniah 3:5 Lit. Morning by morning
Ezekiel 33:20
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20 Yet you say, (A)‘The way of the Lord is not [a]fair.’ O house of Israel, I will judge every one of you according to his own ways.”
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- Ezekiel 33:20 Or equitable
Jeremiah 12:1
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Jeremiah’s Question
12 Righteous (A)are You, O Lord, when I plead with You;
Yet let me talk with You about Your judgments.
(B)Why does the way of the wicked prosper?
Why are those happy who deal so treacherously?
Genesis 18:25
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25 Far be it from You to do such a thing as this, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so (A)that the righteous should be as the wicked; far be it from You! (B)Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?”
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Ezekiel 18:29
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29 (A)Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair.’ O house of Israel, is it not My ways which are fair, and your ways which are not fair?
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Romans 10:3
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3 For they being ignorant of (A)God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own (B)righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God.
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Romans 9:20
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20 But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? (A)Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me like this?”
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Romans 3:20
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20 Therefore (A)by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
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Romans 3:5
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5 But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust who inflicts wrath? (A)(I speak as a man.)
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Romans 2:5-6
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5 But in accordance with your hardness and your [a]impenitent heart (A)you are [b]treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, 6 who (B)“will render to each one according to his deeds”:
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- Romans 2:5 unrepentant
- Romans 2:5 storing
Matthew 20:11-15
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11 And when they had received it, they [a]complained against the landowner, 12 saying, ‘These last men have worked only one hour, and you made them equal to us who have borne the burden and the heat of the day.’ 13 But he answered one of them and said, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius? 14 Take what is yours and go your way. I wish to give to this last man the same as to you. 15 (A)Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with my own things? Or (B)is your eye evil because I am good?’
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- Matthew 20:11 grumbled
Jeremiah 16:10-13
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10 “And it shall be, when you show this people all these words, and they say to you, (A)‘Why has the Lord pronounced all this great disaster against us? Or what is our iniquity? Or what is our sin that we have committed against the Lord our God?’ 11 then you shall say to them, (B)‘Because your fathers have forsaken Me,’ says the Lord; ‘they have walked after other gods and have served them and worshiped them, and have forsaken Me and not kept My law. 12 And you have done (C)worse than your fathers, for behold, (D)each one [a]follows the dictates of his own evil heart, so that no one listens to Me. 13 (E)Therefore I will cast you out of this land (F)into a land that you do not know, neither you nor your fathers; and there you shall serve other gods day and night, where I will not show you favor.’
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- Jeremiah 16:12 walks after the stubbornness or imagination
Jeremiah 2:29-37
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29 “Why will you plead with Me?
You all have transgressed against Me,” says the Lord.
30 “In vain I have (A)chastened your children;
They (B)received no correction.
Your sword has (C)devoured your prophets
Like a destroying lion.
31 “O generation, see the word of the Lord!
Have I been a wilderness to Israel,
Or a land of darkness?
Why do My people say, ‘We [a]are lords;
(D)We will come no more to You’?
32 Can a virgin forget her ornaments,
Or a bride her attire?
Yet My people (E)have forgotten Me days without number.
33 “Why do you beautify your way to seek love?
Therefore you have also taught
The wicked women your ways.
34 Also on your skirts is found
(F)The blood of the lives of the poor innocents.
I have not found it by [b]secret search,
But plainly on all these things.
35 (G)Yet you say, ‘Because I am innocent,
Surely His anger shall turn from me.’
Behold, (H)I will plead My case against you,
(I)Because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’
36 (J)Why do you gad about so much to change your way?
Also (K)you shall be ashamed of Egypt (L)as you were ashamed of Assyria.
37 Indeed you will go forth from him
With your hands on (M)your head;
For the Lord has rejected your trusted allies,
And you will (N)not prosper by them.
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- Jeremiah 2:31 have dominion
- Jeremiah 2:34 digging
Jeremiah 2:17-23
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17 (A)Have you not brought this on yourself,
In that you have forsaken the Lord your God
When (B)He led you in the way?
18 And now why take (C)the road to Egypt,
To drink the waters of (D)Sihor?
Or why take the road to (E)Assyria,
To drink the waters of [a]the River?
19 Your own wickedness will (F)correct you,
And your backslidings will rebuke you.
Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing
That you have forsaken the Lord your God,
And the [b]fear of Me is not in you,”
Says the Lord God of hosts.
20 “For of old I have (G)broken your yoke and burst your bonds;
And (H)you said, ‘I will not [c]transgress,’
When (I)on every high hill and under every green tree
You lay down, (J)playing the harlot.
21 Yet I had (K)planted you a noble vine, a seed of highest quality.
How then have you turned before Me
Into (L)the degenerate plant of an alien vine?
22 For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap,
Yet your iniquity is (M)marked[d] before Me,” says the Lord God.
23 “How(N) can you say, ‘I am not [e]polluted,
I have not gone after the Baals’?
See your way in the valley;
Know what you have done:
You are a swift dromedary breaking loose in her ways,
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 2:18 The Euphrates
- Jeremiah 2:19 dread
- Jeremiah 2:20 Kt. serve
- Jeremiah 2:22 stained
- Jeremiah 2:23 defiled
Psalm 145:17
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17 The Lord is righteous in all His ways,
Gracious in all His works.
Psalm 50:21
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21 These things you have done, and I kept silent;
(A)You thought that I was altogether like you;
But I will rebuke you,
And (B)set them in order before your eyes.
Psalm 50:6
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Job 42:4-6
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Job 40:8
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- Job 40:8 nullify
Job 35:2
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2 “Do you think this is right?
Do you say,
‘My righteousness is more than God’s’?
Job 34:5-10
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5 “For Job has said, (A)‘I am righteous,
But (B)God has taken away my justice;
6 (C)Should I lie concerning my right?
My [a]wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’
7 What man is like Job,
(D)Who drinks [b]scorn like water,
8 Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity,
And walks with wicked men?
9 For (E)he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing
That he should delight in God.’
10 “Therefore listen to me, you [c]men of understanding:
(F)Far be it from God to do wickedness,
And from the Almighty to commit iniquity.
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