◄ Ezekiel 28:15 ►
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Good News Translation
Your conduct was perfect from the day you were created until you began to do evil.

New Revised Standard Version
You were blameless in your ways from the day that you were created, until iniquity was found in you.

Contemporary English Version
You were truly good from the time of your birth, but later you started doing wicked things.

New American Bible
Blameless were you in your ways from the day you were created, Until evil was found in you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day of thy creation, until iniquity was found in thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day of thy creation, until iniquity was found in thee.

perfect

Ezekiel 28:3-6,12 Behold thou art wiser than Daniel: no secret is hid from thee. . . .

Ezekiel 27:3,4 And say to Tyre that dwelleth at the entry of the sea, being the mart of the people for many islands: Thus saith the Lord God: O Tyre, thou hast said: I am of perfect beauty, . . .

till iniquity

Ezekiel 28:17,18 And thy heart was lifted up with thy beauty: thou hast lost thy wisdom in thy beauty, I have cast thee to the ground: I have set thee before the face of kings, that they might behold thee. . . .

Genesis 1:26,27,31 And he said: Let us make man to our image and likeness: and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth. . . .

Genesis 6:5,6 And God seeing that the wickedness of men was great on the earth, and that all the thought of their heart was bent upon evil at all times, . . .

Proverbs 14:34 Justice exalteth a nation: but sin maketh nations miserable.

Ecclesiastes 7:29 Only this I have found, that God made man right, and he hath entangled himself with an infinity of questions. Who is as the wise man? and who hath known the resolution of the word?

Isaiah 14:12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, who didst rise in the morning? how art thou fallen to the earth, that didst wound the nations?

Lamentations 5:16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, because we have sinned.

Romans 7:9 And I lived some time without the law. But when the commandment came, sin revived,

2 Peter 2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but delivered them, drawn down by infernal ropes to the lower hell, unto torments, to be reserved unto judgment:

Context
A Lament over the King of Tyre
…14Thou a cherub stretched out, and protecting, and I set thee in the holy mountain of God, thou hast walked in the midst of the stones of fire. 15Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day of thy creation, until iniquity was found in thee.16By the multitude of thy merchandise, thy inner parts were filled with iniquity, and thou hast sinned: and I cast thee out from the mountain of God, and destroyed thee, O covering cherub, out of the midst of the stones of fire.…
Cross References
Ezekiel 27:3
And say to Tyre that dwelleth at the entry of the sea, being the mart of the people for many islands: Thus saith the Lord God: O Tyre, thou hast said: I am of perfect beauty,

Ezekiel 27:4
And situate in the heart of the sea. Thy neighbours, that built thee, have perfected thy beauty:

Ezekiel 28:3
Behold thou art wiser than Daniel: no secret is hid from thee.

Ezekiel 28:12
And say to him: Thus saith the Lord God: Thou wast the seal of resemblance, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

Ezekiel 28:17
And thy heart was lifted up with thy beauty: thou hast lost thy wisdom in thy beauty, I have cast thee to the ground: I have set thee before the face of kings, that they might behold thee.

Ezekiel 28:18
Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thy iniquities, and by the iniquity of thy traffic: therefore I will bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, to devour thee, and I will make thee as ashes upon the earth in the sight of all that see thee.

Ezekiel 28:14
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