Quotes About Comparison

“Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?

To whom will you liken God? To what image will you compare Him?

To whom will you liken Me or count Me equal? To whom will you compare Me, that we should be alike?

Cross over to the coasts of Cyprus and take a look; send to Kedar and consider carefully; see if there has ever been anything like this:

And the LORD said to me, “Faithless Israel has shown herself more righteous than unfaithful Judah.

“Son of man, how does the wood of the vine surpass any other branch among the trees in the forest?

Your older sister was Samaria, who lived with her daughters to your north; and your younger sister was Sodom, who lived with her daughters to your south.

As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, your sister Sodom and her daughters never did as you and your daughters have done.

Furthermore, Samaria did not commit half the sins you did. You have multiplied your abominations beyond theirs, and all the abominations you have committed have made your sisters appear righteous.

So now you must bear your disgrace, since you have brought justification for your sisters. For they appear more righteous than you, because your sins were more vile than theirs. So you too must bear your shame and disgrace, since you have made your sisters appear righteous.

Did you not treat your sister Sodom as an object of scorn in the day of your pride,

“Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude: ëWho can be compared to your greatness?

The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it; the cypresses could not compare with its branches, nor the plane trees match its boughs. No tree in the garden of God could compare with its beauty.

Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down and be placed with the uncircumcised!

Then compare our appearances with those of the young men who are eating the royal food, and deal with your servants according to what you see.”

Cross over to Calneh and see; go from there to the great Hamath; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are you better than these kingdoms? Is their territory larger than yours?

Are you better than Thebes, stationed by the Nile with water around her, whose rampart was the sea, whose wall was the water?

ëWho is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How does it look to you now? Does it not appear to you like nothing in comparison?í

Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his glory was adorned like one of these.

To what can I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to others:

Then He asked, “To what can we compare the kingdom of God? With what parable shall we present it?

I tell you, among those born of women there is no one greater than John, yet even the least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.”

“To what, then, can I compare the men of this generation? What are they like?

Then Jesus asked, “What is the kingdom of God like? To what can I compare it?