Ezekiel 18:25
But you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Give ear, now, O children of Israel; is my way not equal? are not your ways unequal?
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Ezekiel 18:25
But you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Give ear, now, O children of Israel; is my way not equal? are not your ways unequal?
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Genesis 5:24
And Enoch went on in God's ways: and he was not seen again, for God took him.
Exodus 34:7
Having mercy on thousands, overlooking evil and wrongdoing and sin; he will not let wrongdoers go free, but will send punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, and on their children's children to the third and fourth generation.
Leviticus 26:39
And those of you who are still living will be wasting away in their sins in the land of your haters; in the sins of their fathers they will be wasting away.
Leviticus 26:40
And they will have grief for their sins and for the sins of their fathers, when their hearts were untrue to me, and they went against me;
Numbers 14:18
The Lord is slow to wrath and great in mercy, overlooking wrongdoing and evil, and will not let wrongdoers go free; sending punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation.
Psalms 18:25
On him who has mercy you will have mercy; to the upright you will be upright;
Psalms 50:6
And let the heavens make clear his righteousness; for God himself is the judge. (Selah.)
Ezekiel 18:3
By my life, says the Lord, you will no longer have this saying in Israel.
Ezekiel 33:10
And you, son of man, say to the children of Israel, You say, Our wrongdoing and our sins are on us and we are wasting away in them; how then may we have life?
Ezekiel 33:19
And when the evil man, turning away from his evil-doing, does what is ordered and right, he will get life by it.
Romans 2:6
Who will give to every man his right reward:
Jude 1:15
To be the judge of all, and to give a decision against all those whose lives are unpleasing to him, because of the evil acts which they have done, and because of all the hard things which sinners without fear of God have said against him.
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1 Samuel 6:19
But the Lord sent destruction on seventy men of the people of Beth-shemesh for looking into the ark of the Lord; and great was the sorrow of the people for the destruction which the Lord had sent on them.
1 Samuel 6:20
And the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to keep his place before the Lord, this holy God? and to whom may he go from us?
1 Samuel 6:21
And they sent men to the people living in Kiriath-jearim, saying, The Philistines have sent back the ark of the Lord; come and take it up to your country.
2 Samuel 6:9
And such was David's fear of the Lord that day, that he said, How may I let the ark of God come to me?
2 Samuel 6:10
So David did not let the ark of the Lord come back to him to the town of David: but had it turned away and put into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.
2 Samuel 6:11
And the ark of the Lord was in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite for three months: and the Lord sent a blessing on Obed-edom and all his family.
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1 Samuel 12:7
Keep your places now, while I take up the argument with you before the Lord, and give you the story of the righteousness of the Lord, which he has made clear by his acts to you and to your fathers.
Isaiah 5:3
And now, you people of Jerusalem and you men of Judah, be the judges between me and my vine-garden.
Isaiah 5:4
Is there anything which might have been done for my vine-garden which I have not done? why then, when I was hoping for the best grapes did it give me common grapes?
Isaiah 5:20
Cursed are those who give the name of good to evil, and of evil to what is good: who make light dark, and dark light: who make bitter sweet, and sweet bitter!
Isaiah 41:21
Put forward your cause, says the Lord; let your strong argument come out, says the King of Jacob.
Jeremiah 2:5
These are the words of the Lord: What evil have your fathers seen in me that they have gone far from me, and, walking after what is false, have become false?
Micah 6:1
Give ear now to the words of the Lord: Up! put forward your cause before the mountains, let your voice be sounding among the hills.
Micah 6:4
For I took you up out of the land of Egypt and made you free from the prison-house; I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
Micah 6:5
O my people, keep in mind now what was designed by Balak, king of Moab, and the answer which Balaam, son of Beor, gave him; the events, from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you may be certain of the upright acts of the Lord.
Acts 17:3
Saying to them clearly and openly that Christ had to be put to death and come back to life again; and that this Jesus, whom, he said, I am preaching to you, is the Christ.
2 Corinthians 1:13
For in our letters we say no other things to you, but those which you are reading, and to which you give agreement, and, it is my hope, will go on doing so to the end:
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2 Chronicles 19:7
So now let the fear of the Lord be in you; do your work with care; for in the Lord our God there is no evil, or respect for high position, or taking of payment to do wrong.
Job 4:17
May a man be upright before God? or a man be clean before his Maker?
Job 8:3
Does God give wrong decisions? or is the Ruler of all not upright in his judging?
Job 9:2
Truly, I see that it is so: and how is it possible for a man to get his right before God?
Job 19:7
Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause.
Job 34:5
For Job has said, I am upright, and it is God who has taken away my right;
Psalms 89:14
The seat of your kingdom is resting on righteousness and right judging: mercy and good faith come before your face.
Romans 3:4
In no way: but let God be true, though every man is seen to be untrue; as it is said in the Writings, That your words may be seen to be true, and you may be seen to be right when you are judged.
Romans 3:5
But if the righteousness of God is supported by our wrongdoing what is to be said? is it wrong for God to be angry (as men may say)?
Romans 3:6
In no way: because if it is so, how is God able to be the judge of all the world?
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Job 36:12
But if not, they come to their end, and give up their breath without knowledge.
Lamentations 3:40
Let us make search and put our ways to the test, turning again to the Lord;
Lamentations 3:41
Lifting up our hearts with our hands to God in the heavens.
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Psalms 17:2
Be my judge; for your eyes see what is right.
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Psalms 19:7
The law of the Lord is good, giving new life to the soul: the witness of the Lord is certain, giving wisdom to the foolish.
Psalms 19:8
The orders of the Lord are right, making glad the heart: the rule of the Lord is holy, giving light to the eyes.
Psalms 119:128
Because of it I keep straight in all things by your orders; and I am a hater of every false way.
Jeremiah 15:16
But to me your word is a joy, making my heart glad; for I am named by your name, O Lord God of armies.
Romans 7:12
But the law is holy, and its orders are holy, upright, and good.
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Proverbs 1:24
Because your ears were shut to my voice; no one gave attention to my out-stretched hand;
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Proverbs 1:25
You were not controlled by my guiding, and would have nothing to do with my sharp words:
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Isaiah 45:23
By myself have I taken an oath, a true word has gone from my mouth, and will not be changed, that to me every knee will be bent, and every tongue will give honour.
Romans 14:10
But you, why do you make yourself your brother's judge? or again, why have you no respect for your brother? because we will all have to take our place before God as our judge.
James 4:11
Do not say evil against one another, my brothers. He who says evil against his brother or makes himself his brother's judge, says evil against the law and is judging the law: and in judging the law you become, not a doer of the law but a judge.
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Psalms 78:36
But their lips were false to him, and their tongues were untrue to him;
Isaiah 32:6
For the foolish man will say foolish things, having evil thoughts in his heart, working what is unclean, and talking falsely about the Lord, to keep food from him who is in need of it, and water from him whose soul is desiring it.
Isaiah 48:8
Truly you had no word of them, no knowledge of them; no news of them in the past had come to your ears; because I saw how false was your behaviour, and that your heart was turned against me from your earliest days.
Isaiah 57:11
And of whom were you in fear, so that you were false, and did not keep me in mind, or give thought to it? Have I not been quiet, keeping myself secret, and so you were not in fear of me?
Jeremiah 3:10
But for all this, her false sister Judah has not come back to me with all her heart, but with deceit, says the Lord.
Hosea 6:7
But like a man, they have gone against the agreement; there they were false to me.
Acts 5:3
But Peter said, Ananias, why has the Evil One put it into your heart to be false to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
Acts 5:4
While you had it, was it not your property? and after you had given it in exchange, was it not still in your power? how has this purpose come into your mind? you have been false, not to men, but to God.
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Jeremiah 2:17
Has not this come on you because you have given up the Lord your God, who was your guide by the way?
Jeremiah 2:18
And now, what have you to do on the way to Egypt, to get your drink from the waters of the Nile? or what have you to do on the way to Assyria, to get your drink from the waters of the River?
Jeremiah 2:20
For in the past, your yoke was broken by your hands and your cords parted; and you said, I will not be your servant; for on every high hill and under every branching tree, your behaviour was like that of a loose woman
Jeremiah 2:21
But when you were planted by me, you were a noble vine, in every way a true seed: how then have you been changed into the branching plant of a strange vine?
Jeremiah 2:22
For even if you are washed with soda and take much soap, still your evil-doing is marked before me, says the Lord God.
Jeremiah 2:23
How are you able to say, I am not unclean, I have not gone after the Baals? see your way in the valley, be clear about what you have done: you are a quick-footed camel twisting her way in and out;
Jeremiah 2:29
Why will you put forward your cause against me? You have all done evil against me, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 2:32
Is it possible for a virgin to put out of her memory her ornaments, or a bride her robes? but my people have put me out of their memories for unnumbered days.
Jeremiah 2:33
With what care are your ways ordered when you are looking for love! so...your ways.
Jeremiah 2:34
And in the skirts of your robe may be seen the life-blood of those who have done no wrong: ...
Jeremiah 16:10
And it will be, that when you say all these words to the people, then they will say to you, Why has the Lord done all this evil against us? what is our wrongdoing and what is our sin which we have done against the Lord our God?
Matthew 27:25
And all the people made answer and said, Let his blood be on us, and on our children.
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2 Chronicles 28:22
And in the time of his trouble, this same King Ahaz did even more evil against the Lord.
Psalms 50:21
These things have you done, and I said nothing; it seemed to you that I was such a one as yourself; but I will make a protest against you, and put them in order before your eyes.
Proverbs 21:2
Every way of a man seems right to himself, but the Lord is the tester of hearts.
Jeremiah 2:19
The evil you yourselves have done will be your punishment, your errors will be your judge: be certain then, and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing to give up the Lord your God, and no longer to be moved by fear of me, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.
Jeremiah 2:30
I gave your children blows to no purpose; they got no good from training: your sword has been the destruction of your prophets, like a death-giving lion.
Jeremiah 2:35
And still you said, I have done no wrong; truly, his wrath is turned away from me. See, I will take up the cause against you, because you say, I have done no wrong.
Jeremiah 2:36
Why do you go about so much for the purpose of changing your way? you will be shamed on account of Egypt, as you were shamed on account of Assyria.
Jeremiah 2:37
Truly, you will go out from him with your hands on your head: for the Lord has given up those in whom you have put your faith, and they will be of no help to you.
Jeremiah 16:11
Then you will say to them, Because your fathers have given me up, says the Lord, and have gone after other gods and become their servants and their worshippers, and have given me up and have not kept my law;
Jeremiah 16:13
For this reason I will send you away out of this land into a land which is strange to you, to you and to your fathers; there you will be the servants of other gods day and night, and you will have no mercy from me.
Jeremiah 18:12
But they will say, There is no hope: we will go on in our designs, and every one of us will do what he is moved by the pride of his evil heart to do.
1 John 1:10
If we say that we have no sin, we make him false and his word is not in us.
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Jeremiah 16:12
And you have done worse evil than your fathers; for see, every one of you is guided by the pride of his evil heart, so as not to give ear to me:
Ezekiel 8:12
And he said to me, Son of man, have you seen what the responsible men of the children of Israel do in the dark, every man in his room of pictured images? for they say, The Lord does not see us; the Lord has gone away from the land.
Hosea 7:3
In their sin they make a king for themselves, and rulers in their deceit.
Malachi 3:13
Your words have been strong against me, says the Lord. And still you say, What have we said against you?
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Jeremiah 23:34
And as for the prophet and the priest and the people who say, A word of weight from the Lord! I will send punishment on that man and on his house.
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Jeremiah 33:14
See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will give effect to the good word which I have said about the people of Israel and the people of Judah.
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Isaiah 58:3
They say, Why have we kept ourselves from food, and you do not see it? why have we kept ourselves from pleasure, and you take no note of it? If, in the days when you keep from food, you take the chance to do your business, and get in your debts;
Jeremiah 44:16
As for the word which you have said to us in the name of the Lord, we will not give ear to you.
Malachi 1:12
But you make it unholy by saying, The Lord's table has become unclean, and his food is of no value.
Malachi 1:13
And you say, See, what a weariness it is! and you let out your breath at it, says the Lord of armies; and you have given what has been cut about by beasts, and what is damaged in its feet and ill; this is the offering you give: will this be pleasing to me from your hands? says the Lord.
Luke 15:29
But he made answer and said to his father, See, all these years I have been your servant, doing your orders in everything: and you never gave me even a young goat so that I might have a feast with my friends:
Luke 19:20
And another came, saying, Lord, here is your pound, which I put away in a cloth;
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Nehemiah 9:33
But still, you have been in the right in everything which has come on us; you have been true to us, but we have done evil:
Job 11:6
And would make clear to you the secrets of wisdom, and the wonders of his purpose!
Job 33:23
If now there may be an angel sent to him, one of the thousands which there are to be between him and God, and to make clear to man what is right for him;
Job 35:14
How much less when you say that you do not see him; that the cause is before him, and you are waiting for him.
Job 36:3
I will get my knowledge from far, and I will give righteousness to my Maker.
Job 36:8
And if they have been prisoned in chains, and taken in cords of trouble,
Job 36:9
Then he makes clear to them what they have done, even their evil works in which they have taken pride.
Job 36:10
Their ear is open to his teaching, and he gives them orders so that their hearts may be turned from evil.
Job 36:11
If they give ear to his voice, and do his word, then he gives them long life, and years full of pleasure.
Job 36:13
Those who have no fear of God keep wrath stored up in their hearts; they give no cry for help when they are made prisoners.
Job 37:23
There is no searching out of the Ruler of all: his strength and his judging are great; he is full of righteousness, doing no wrong.
Lamentations 3:22
It is through the Lord's love that we have not come to destruction, because his mercies have no limit.
Lamentations 3:23
They are new every morning; great is your good faith.
Lamentations 3:32
For though he sends grief, still he will have pity in the full measure of his love.
Lamentations 3:39
What protest may a living man make, even a man about the punishment of his sin?
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Ezekiel 3:20
Again, when an upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, and I put a cause of falling in his way, death will overtake him: because you have given him no word of his danger, death will overtake him in his evil-doing, and there will be no memory of the upright acts which he has done; but I will make you responsible for his blood.
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Ezekiel 3:21
But if you say to the upright man that he is not to do evil, he will certainly keep his life because he took note of your word; and your life will be safe.
Ezekiel 33:12
And you, son of man, say to the children of your people, The righteousness of the upright man will not make him safe in the day when he does wrong; and the evil-doing of the evil man will not be the cause of his fall in the day when he is turned from his evil-doing; and the upright man will not have life because of his righteousness in the day when he does evil.
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Jeremiah 18:7
Whenever I say anything about uprooting a nation or a kingdom, and smashing it and sending destruction on it;
Jeremiah 18:8
If, in that very minute, that nation of which I was talking is turned away from its evil, my purpose of doing evil to them will be changed.
Jeremiah 18:9
And whenever I say anything about building up a nation or a kingdom, and planting it;
Jeremiah 18:10
If, in that very minute, it does evil in my eyes, going against my orders, then my good purpose, which I said I would do for them, will be changed.
Jeremiah 18:11
Now, then, say to the men of Judah and to the people of Jerusalem, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am forming an evil thing against you, and designing a design against you: let every man come back now from his evil way, and let your ways and your doings be changed for the better.
Jonah 3:10
And God saw what they did, how they were turned from their evil way; and God's purpose was changed as to the evil which he said he would do to them, and he did it not.
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Haggai 2:19
Is the seed still in the store-house? have the vine and the fig-tree, the pomegranate and the olive-tree, still not given their fruit? from this day I will send my blessing on you.
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Matthew 25:25
And I was in fear, and went away, and put your talent in the earth: here is what is yours.
Matthew 25:26
But his lord in answer said to him, You are a bad and unready servant; if you had knowledge that I get in grain where I did not put seed, and make profits for which I have done no work,
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Job 1:22
In all this Job did no sin, and did not say that God's acts were foolish.
Job 33:12
Truly, in saying this you are wrong; for God is greater than man.
Job 34:23
For he does not give man a fixed time to come before him to be judged.
Job 36:22
Truly God is lifted up in strength; who is a ruler like him?
Job 36:23
Who ever gave orders to him, or said to him, You have done wrong?
Isaiah 45:9
Cursed is he who has an argument with his Maker, the pot which has an argument with the Potter! Will the wet earth say to him who is working with it, What are you doing, that your work has nothing by which it may be gripped?
Romans 9:19
But you will say to me, Why does he still make us responsible? who is able to go against his purpose?
Romans 9:21
Or has not the potter the right to make out of one part of his earth a vessel for honour, and out of another a vessel for shame?
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1 Kings 14:13
And all Israel will put his body to rest, weeping over him, because he only of the family of Jeroboam will be put into his resting-place in the earth; for of all the family of Jeroboam, in him only has the Lord, the God of Israel, seen some good.
2 Chronicles 12:12
And when he made himself low, the wrath of the Lord was turned back from him, and complete destruction did not come on him, for there was still some good in Judah.
2 Chronicles 19:3
But still there is some good in you, for you have put away the wood pillars out of the land, and have given your heart to the worship of God.
Job 19:28
If you say, How cruel we will be to him! because the root of sin is clearly in him:
Philemon 1:6
That the faith which you have in common with them may be working with power, in the knowledge of every good thing in you, for Christ.
2 Peter 2:8
(Because the soul of that upright man living among them was pained from day to day by seeing and hearing their crimes):
2 Peter 2:9
The Lord is able to keep the upright safe in the time of testing, and to keep evil-doers under punishment till the day of judging;
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