Ezekiel 20:25
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“I also gave them over to statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not live.”
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“I also gave them over to statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not live.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;”
King James Version · Public Domain“Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances wherein they should not live;”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And I also, I have given to them statutes not good, And judgments by which they do not live.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Ezekiel 20:25 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 4:27Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
- Deuteronomy 28:36The LORD will bring you and the king you appoint to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone.
- Psalms 81:12So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.
- Isaiah 66:4So I will choose their punishment and I will bring terror upon them, because I called and no one answered, I spoke and no one listened. But they did evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight.”
- Ezekiel 14:9But if the prophet is enticed to speak a message, then it was I the LORD who enticed him, and I will stretch out My hand against him and destroy him from among My people Israel.
- Ezekiel 20:26And I pronounced them unclean through their gifts—the sacrifice of every firstborn in the fire—so that I might devastate them, in order that they would know that I am the LORD.
- Ezekiel 20:39And as for you, O house of Israel, this is what the Lord GOD says: Go and serve your idols, every one of you. But afterward, you will surely listen to Me, and you will no longer defile My holy name with your gifts and idols.
- Romans 1:21For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:9The coming of the lawless one will be accompanied by the working of Satan, with every kind of power, sign, and false wonder,
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