Ezekiel 20:25

KJV1611 – Modern English

Therefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments by which they should not live;

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  • Ps 81:12 : 12 So I gave them up to their own hearts' desires, and they walked in their own counsels.
  • Isa 66:4 : 4 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none answered; when I spoke, they did not hear: but they did evil before my eyes, and chose that in which I do not delight.
  • Ezek 20:39 : 39 As for you, O house of Israel, thus says the Lord GOD; Go, serve every one his idols, and hereafter also, if you will not listen to me: but pollute my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols.
  • Rom 1:21-28 : 21 Because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools, 23 And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, and to birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things. 24 Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies among themselves, 25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. 26 For this reason God gave them up to vile passions: for even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. 27 And likewise the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another; men with men working what is shameful, and receiving in themselves that penalty of their error which was fitting. 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
  • 2 Thess 2:9-9 : 9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
  • Deut 4:27-28 : 27 And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and you shall be left few in number among the heathen, where the LORD shall lead you. 28 And there you shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
  • Deut 28:36 : 36 The LORD shall bring you, and your king whom you shall set over you, unto a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known; and there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone.
  • Ezek 14:9-9 : 9 And if the prophet is deceived when he has spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. 10 And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity: the punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of him who seeks unto him; 11 That the house of Israel may no longer go astray from me, nor be polluted anymore with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, says the Lord GOD.
  • Ezek 20:26 : 26 And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that opens the womb, that I might make them desolate, so that they might know that I am the LORD.

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  • Ezek 20:23-24
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    82%

    23I lifted up my hand to them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;

    24Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.

  • Ezek 20:10-13
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    80%

    10Therefore I caused them to go out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.

    11And I gave them my statutes, and showed them my judgments, which if a man does, he shall even live in them.

    12Moreover I also gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them.

    13But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they did not walk in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man does, he shall even live in them; and they greatly polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.

  • Ezek 20:15-19
    5 verses
    79%

    15Yet also I lifted up my hand to them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;

    16Because they despised my judgments, and did not walk in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.

    17Nevertheless my eye spared them from destroying them, nor did I make an end of them in the wilderness.

    18But I said to their children in the wilderness, Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:

    19I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;

  • Ezek 20:21
    77%

    21Nevertheless the children rebelled against me: they did not walk in my statutes, nor kept my judgments to do them, which if a man does, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.

  • Ezek 20:26-28
    3 verses
    77%

    26And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that opens the womb, that I might make them desolate, so that they might know that I am the LORD.

    27Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD; Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.

    28For when I had brought them into the land, for which I lifted up my hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provoking of their offering: there also they made their sweet savor, and poured out there their drink offerings.

  • Ezek 5:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

    6And she has changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries around her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.

    7Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Because you have multiplied more than the nations that are around you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, nor done according to the judgments of the nations around you;

  • 2 Kgs 17:19
    72%

    19Also Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they had made.

  • Lev 20:23
    71%

    23And you shall not walk in the manners of the nation which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

  • Jer 1:16
    71%

    16And I will utter My judgments against them concerning all their wickedness, who have forsaken Me, and have burned incense to other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.

  • Jer 9:13
    71%

    13And the LORD says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, nor walked in it;

  • Ezek 11:12
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    12And you shall know that I am the LORD: for you have not walked in my statutes, nor executed my judgments, but have done according to the ways of the nations that are around you.

  • 2 Kgs 17:15
    70%

    15They rejected his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; they followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves, and went after the nations that were around them, although the LORD had commanded them not to do like them.

  • Ezek 23:37
    70%

    37That they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass through the fire, to devour them.

  • Lev 18:5
    69%

    5You shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, which if a man does, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.

  • Ezek 11:20
    69%

    20That they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

  • Ezek 36:19
    69%

    19And I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.

  • Ps 81:12
    69%

    12So I gave them up to their own hearts' desires, and they walked in their own counsels.

  • Exod 21:1
    69%

    1Now these are the judgments you shall set before them.

  • 2 Kgs 17:12
    69%

    12For they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, You shall not do this thing.

  • Ezek 20:30-31
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    69%

    30Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD; Are you polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit you harlotry after their abominations?

    31For when you offer your gifts, when you make your sons to pass through the fire, you pollute yourselves with all your idols, even to this day: and shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you.

  • Ezek 16:50
    69%

    50And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me; therefore I took them away as I saw fit.

  • Ezek 20:7-8
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    69%

    7Then I said to them, Cast away every man the abominations of his eyes, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

    8But they rebelled against me, and would not listen to me: they did not cast away every man the abominations of their eyes, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

  • Lev 26:43
    69%

    43The land also shall be left by them, and shall enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them: and they shall accept the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.

  • Judg 2:17
    69%

    17Yet they would not listen to their judges, but they went whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves to them: they quickly turned out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; they did not do so.

  • Lev 26:15
    69%

    15And if you shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhors my judgments, so that you will not do all my commandments, but that you break my covenant:

  • Jer 34:18
    69%

    18And I will give the men who have transgressed my covenant, who have not performed the words of the covenant which they made before me, when they cut the calf in two and passed between its parts:

  • 1 Kgs 11:33
    68%

    33Because they have forsaken me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do what is right in my eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father.

  • Jer 32:35
    68%

    35And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.

  • Ezek 20:4
    68%

    4Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them? Make them know the abominations of their fathers:

  • Jer 11:8
    68%

    8Yet they did not obey nor incline their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart. Therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did not do.

  • Heb 8:9
    68%

    9Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in my covenant, and I did not regard them, says the Lord.

  • Lev 18:30
    68%

    30Therefore you shall keep my ordinance, that you do not commit any of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that you do not defile yourselves by them: I am the LORD your God.

  • 2 Kgs 17:8
    68%

    8And they walked in the statutes of the nations whom the LORD had cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.

  • Amos 2:4
    68%

    4Thus says the LORD: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept His commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after which their fathers walked:

  • Neh 9:29
    68%

    29You testified against them, that You might bring them back to Your law. Yet they acted proudly and did not heed Your commandments but sinned against Your judgments, which if a man does, he shall live by them. And they shrugged their shoulders, stiffened their necks, and would not hear.

  • Ps 89:31
    68%

    31If they break my statutes and do not keep my commandments;

  • Lev 18:3
    68%

    3You shall not do according to the practices of the land of Egypt, where you lived; and you shall not do according to the practices of the land of Canaan, where I bring you; you shall not walk in their ordinances.