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Malachi 3:13-15
“ Your words have been stout against me,” says Yahweh.“ Yet you say,‘ What have we spoken against you?’You have said,‘ It is vain to serve God;’ and‘ What profit is it that we have followed his instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’
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Ezekiel 33:17
“‘ Yet the children of your people say,“ The way of the Lord is not fair;” but as for them, their way is not fair.
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Genesis 18:25
May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”
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Jeremiah 12:1
You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to reason the cause with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?
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Ezekiel 33:20
Yet you say,“ The way of the Lord is not fair.” House of Israel, I will judge every one of you after his ways.’”
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Malachi 2:17
You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say,‘ How have we wearied him?’ In that you say,‘ Everyone who does evil is good in Yahweh’s sight, and he delights in them;’ or‘ Where is the God of justice?’
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Zephaniah 3:5
Yahweh, within her, is righteous. He will do no wrong. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He doesn’t fail, but the unjust know no shame.
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Ezekiel 18:29
Yet the house of Israel says,‘ The way of the Lord is not fair.’ House of Israel, aren’t my ways fair? Aren’t your ways unfair?
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Deuteronomy 32:4
The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.
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Romans 9:20
But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it,“ Why did you make me like this?”
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Psalms 50:6
The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah.
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Job 42:4-6
You said,‘ Listen, now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.’I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you.Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”
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Romans 3:5
But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.
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Jeremiah 2:17-23
“ Haven’t you brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way?Now what do you gain by going to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? Or why do you to go on the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?“ Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.“ For long ago I broke off your yoke, and burst your bonds. You said,‘ I will not serve;’ for on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed yourself, playing the prostitute.Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a pure and faithful seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me,” says the Lord Yahweh.“ How can you say,‘ I am not defiled. I have not gone after the Baals’? See your way in the valley. Know what you have done. You are a swift dromedary traversing her ways,
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Psalms 145:17
Yahweh is righteous in all his ways, and gracious in all his works.
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Job 40:8
Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?
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Job 35:2
“ Do you think this to be your right, or do you say,‘ My righteousness is more than God’s,’
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Matthew 20:11-15
When they received it, they murmured against the master of the household,saying,‘ These last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat!’“ But he answered one of them,‘ Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Didn’t you agree with me for a denarius?Take that which is yours, and go your way. It is my desire to give to this last just as much as to you.Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’
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Job 32:2
Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath was kindled because he justified himself rather than God.
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Psalms 50:21
You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.
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Romans 3:20
Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
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Job 34:5-10
For Job has said,‘ I am righteous, God has taken away my right:Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar. My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.’What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men?For he has said,‘ It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.’“ Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.
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Jeremiah 2:29-37
“ Why will you contend with me? You all have transgressed against me,” says Yahweh.“ I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.Generation, consider Yahweh’s word. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say,‘ We have broken loose. We will come to you no more?’“ Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number.How well you prepare your way to seek love! Therefore you have even taught the wicked women your ways.Also the blood of the souls of the innocent poor is found in your skirts. You didn’t find them breaking in; but it is because of all these things.“ Yet you said,‘ I am innocent. Surely his anger has turned away from me.’“ Behold, I will judge you, because you say,‘ I have not sinned.’Why do you go about so much to change your ways? You will be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Assyria.You will also leave that place with your hands on your head; for Yahweh has rejected those in whom you trust, and you won’t prosper with them.
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Jeremiah 16:10-13
It will happen, when you tell this people all these words, and they ask you,‘ Why has Yahweh pronounced all this great evil against us?’ or‘ What is our iniquity? or‘ What is our sin that we have committed against Yahweh our God?’then you shall tell them,‘ Because your fathers have forsaken me,’ says Yahweh,‘ and have walked after other gods, have served them, have worshiped them, have forsaken me, and have not kept my law.You have done evil more than your fathers, for behold, you each walk after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don’t listen to me.Therefore I will cast you out of this land into the land that you have not known, neither you nor your fathers. There you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.’
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Romans 10:3
For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
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Romans 2:5-6
But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;who“ will pay back to everyone according to their works:”