Ezekiel 18:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

As I live, says the Lord GOD, you shall no longer have occasion to use this proverb in Israel.

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  • Ezek 18:19-20 : 19 Yet you say, ‘Why? Does not the son bear the iniquity of the father?’ When the son has done what is lawful and right, and has kept all My statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live. 20 The soul that sins, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, nor shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
  • Ezek 18:30 : 30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, says the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
  • Ezek 33:11-20 : 11 Say to them, As I live, says the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn back, turn back from your evil ways; for why will you die, O house of Israel? 12 Therefore, son of man, say to the children of your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sins. 13 When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trusts in his own righteousness, and commits iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he has committed, he shall die for it. 14 Again, when I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; if he turns from his sin, and does that which is lawful and right; 15 If the wicked restores the pledge, gives back what he has stolen, walks in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die. 16 None of his sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him: he has done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live. 17 Yet the children of your people say, The way of the Lord is not fair: but it is their way that is not fair. 18 When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall die because of it. 19 But if the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall live because of it. 20 Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not fair. O house of Israel, I will judge every one of you according to his ways.
  • Ezek 36:31-32 : 31 Then you shall remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations. 32 Not for your sakes do I this, says the Lord GOD, be it known to you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.
  • Rom 3:19 : 19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezek 18:1-2
    2 verses
    83%

    1The word of the LORD came to me again, saying,

    2What do you mean by using this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge’?

  • Ezek 12:21-25
    5 verses
    76%

    21The word of the LORD came to me, saying,

    22Son of man, what is that proverb that you have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision fails?

    23Tell them therefore, Thus says the Lord GOD; I will make this proverb cease, and they shall no longer use it as a proverb in Israel; but say to them, The days are at hand, and the fulfillment of every vision.

    24For there shall be no more any empty vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel.

    25For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall no longer be postponed: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and will perform it, says the Lord GOD.

  • Jer 16:14
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    14Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when it shall no longer be said, The LORD lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;

  • Jer 23:7
    75%

    7Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that they shall no longer say, 'The LORD lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt';

  • Jer 31:29-30
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    75%

    29In those days they shall no longer say, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.

    30But everyone shall die for his own sin: every man who eats sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.

  • Ezek 18:4
    75%

    4Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sins, it shall die.

  • Ezek 36:12-16
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    74%

    12Yes, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel; and they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and you shall no more henceforth bereave them of men.

    13Thus says the Lord GOD; Because they say to you, You land devour men, and have bereaved your nations;

    14Therefore you shall devour men no more, nor bereave your nations any more, says the Lord GOD.

    15Neither will I cause men to hear in you the shame of the nations any more, nor shall you bear the reproach of the people any more, nor shall you cause your nations to fall any more, says the Lord GOD.

    16Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • Ezek 20:3
    74%

    3Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD; Have you come to inquire of me? As I live, says the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you.

  • Ezek 18:19-20
    2 verses
    73%

    19Yet you say, ‘Why? Does not the son bear the iniquity of the father?’ When the son has done what is lawful and right, and has kept all My statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live.

    20The soul that sins, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, nor shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

  • Ezek 18:30-32
    3 verses
    73%

    30Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, says the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.

    31Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby you have transgressed; and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, O house of Israel?

    32For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies, says the Lord GOD: therefore turn yourselves, and live.

  • Ezek 20:30-31
    2 verses
    72%

    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 11:11
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    11This city shall not be your cauldron, nor shall you be the meat in its midst; but I will judge you at the border of Israel:

  • Num 14:28
    71%

    28Say to them, As truly as I live, says the LORD, as you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you:

  • Ezek 13:23
    71%

    23Therefore you shall see no more vanity nor divine divinations; for I will deliver my people out of your hand, and you shall know that I am the LORD.

  • Ezek 12:28
    71%

    28Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD; None of my words shall be postponed any more, but the word which I have spoken shall be done, says the Lord GOD.

  • Ezek 5:11
    71%

    11Therefore, as I live, says the Lord GOD; Surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore will I also diminish you; neither shall my eye spare, nor will I have any pity.

  • Ezek 29:16
    71%

    16And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, which brings their iniquity to remembrance, when they shall look after them: but they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.

  • Ezek 33:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10Therefore, O son of man, speak to the house of Israel; this is what you speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and we waste away in them, how should we then live?

    11Say to them, As I live, says the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn back, turn back from your evil ways; for why will you die, O house of Israel?

  • Jer 23:36
    71%

    36And the burden of the LORD you shall mention no more; for every man's word shall be his burden, for you have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.

  • Ezek 17:19
    71%

    19Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; As I live, surely my oath that he has despised and my covenant that he has broken, I will recompense on his own head.

  • Ezek 14:11-12
    2 verses
    70%

    11That 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.

    12The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,

  • Ezek 18:23
    70%

    23Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? says the Lord GOD, and not that he should return from his ways and live?

  • Ezek 16:48
    70%

    48As I live, says the Lord GOD, neither has your sister Sodom and her daughters done anything as you have done, you and your daughters.

  • Ezek 13:19
    70%

    19Will you profane me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people who hear your lies?

  • Ezek 17:16
    70%

    16As I live, says the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.

  • Amos 5:4
    70%

    4For thus says the LORD to the house of Israel, Seek me, and you shall live:

  • Ezek 28:11
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    11Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • Ezek 20:27
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    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.

  • Ezek 20:33
    70%

    33As I live, says the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule over you:

  • Isa 22:14
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    14And it was revealed in my ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you until you die, says the Lord GOD of hosts.

  • Deut 24:16
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    16The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

  • Ezek 18:17
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    17Who has taken off his hand from the poor, who has not received interest nor increase, has executed My judgments, has walked in My statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.

  • Ezek 37:5
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    5Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live:

  • Amos 7:16
    69%

    16Now therefore hear the word of the LORD: You say, Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not preach against the house of Isaac.