Ezekiel 18:9

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and follows my statutes and observes my regulations by carrying them out. That man is righteous; he will certainly live, declares the Sovereign LORD.

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  • Ezek 20:11 : 11 I gave them my statutes and revealed my regulations to them. The one who carries them out will live by them!
  • Amos 5:4 : 4 The LORD says this to the family of Israel:“Seek me so you can live!
  • Ezek 18:17 : 17 refrains from wrongdoing, does not engage in usury or charge interest, carries out my regulations and follows my statutes. He will not die for his father’s iniquity; he will surely live.
  • Hab 2:4 : 4 Look, the one whose desires are not upright will faint from exhaustion, but the person of integrity will live because of his faithfulness.
  • Deut 10:12-13 : 12 An Exhortation to Love Both God and People Now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you except to revere him, to obey all his commandments, to love him, to serve him with all your mind and being, 13 and to keep the LORD’s commandments and statutes that I am giving you today for your own good?
  • Rom 1:17 : 17 For the righteousness of God is revealed in the gospel from faith to faith, just as it is written,“The righteous by faith will live.”
  • Jas 1:22-25 : 22 But be sure you live out the message and do not merely listen to it and so deceive yourselves. 23 For if someone merely listens to the message and does not live it out, he is like someone who gazes at his own face in a mirror. 24 For he gazes at himself and then goes out and immediately forgets what sort of person he was. 25 But the one who peers into the perfect law of liberty and fixes his attention there, and does not become a forgetful listener but one who lives it out– he will be blessed in what he does.
  • Jas 2:18-26 : 18 But someone will say,“You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith without works and I will show you faith by my works. 19 You believe that God is one; well and good. Even the demons believe that– and tremble with fear. 20 But would you like evidence, you empty fellow, that faith without works is useless? 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar? 22 You see that his faith was working together with his works and his faith was perfected by works. 23 And the scripture was fulfilled that says,“Now Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness,” and he was called God’s friend. 24 You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. 25 And similarly, was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she welcomed the messengers and sent them out by another way? 26 For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.
  • 1 John 2:29 : 29 If you know that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered by him.
  • 1 John 3:7 : 7 Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Jesus is righteous.
  • Amos 5:14 : 14 Seek good and not evil so you can live! Then the LORD God of Heaven’s Armies, just might be with you, as you claim he is.
  • Amos 5:24 : 24 Justice must flow like torrents of water, righteous actions like a stream that never dries up.
  • Deut 11:1 : 1 Reiteration of the Call to Obedience You must love the LORD your God and do what he requires; keep his statutes, ordinances, and commandments at all times.
  • Neh 9:13-14 : 13 “You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven. You provided them with just judgments, true laws, and good statutes and commandments. 14 You made known to them your holy Sabbath; you issued commandments, statutes, and law to them through Moses your servant.
  • Ps 19:7-9 : 7 The law of the LORD is perfect and preserves one’s life. The rules set down by the LORD are reliable and impart wisdom to the inexperienced. 8 The LORD’s precepts are fair and make one joyful. The LORD’s commands are pure and give insight for life. 9 The commands to fear the LORD are right and endure forever. The judgments given by the LORD are trustworthy and absolutely just. 10 They are of greater value than gold, than even a great amount of pure gold; they bring greater delight than honey, than even the sweetest honey from a honeycomb. 11 Yes, your servant finds moral guidance there; those who obey them receive a rich reward.
  • Ps 24:4-6 : 4 The one whose deeds are blameless and whose motives are pure, who does not lie, or make promises with no intention of keeping them. 5 Such godly people are rewarded by the LORD, and vindicated by the God who delivers them. 6 Such purity characterizes the people who seek his favor, Jacob’s descendants, who pray to him.(Selah)
  • Ps 105:44-45 : 44 He handed the territory of nations over to them, and they took possession of what other peoples had produced, 45 so that they might keep his commands and obey his laws. Praise the LORD!
  • Ps 119:1-6 : 1 א(Alef) How blessed are those whose actions are blameless, who obey the law of the LORD. 2 How blessed are those who observe his rules, and seek him with all their heart, 3 who, moreover, do no wrong, but follow in his footsteps. 4 You demand that your precepts be carefully kept. 5 If only I were predisposed to keep your statutes! 6 Then I would not be ashamed, if I were focused on all your commands.
  • Lev 18:5 : 5 So you must keep my statutes and my regulations; anyone who does so will live by keeping them. I am the LORD.
  • Deut 4:1 : 1 The Privileges of the Covenant Now, Israel, pay attention to the statutes and ordinances I am about to teach you, so that you might live and go on to enter and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your ancestors, is giving you.
  • Deut 5:1 : 1 The Opening Exhortation Then Moses called all the people of Israel together and said to them:“Listen, Israel, to the statutes and ordinances that I am about to deliver to you today; learn them and be careful to keep them!
  • Deut 6:1-2 : 1 Exhortation to Keep the Covenant Principles Now these are the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that the LORD your God instructed me to teach you so that you may carry them out in the land where you are headed 2 and that you may so revere the LORD your God that you will keep all his statutes and commandments that I am giving you– you, your children, and your grandchildren– all your lives, to prolong your days.
  • Luke 1:6 : 6 They were both righteous in the sight of God, following all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blamelessly.
  • Luke 10:27-29 : 27 The expert answered,“Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and love your neighbor as yourself.” 28 Jesus said to him,“You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.” 29 But the expert, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus,“And who is my neighbor?”
  • John 14:21 : 21 The person who has my commandments and obeys them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him.”
  • Acts 24:16 : 16 This is the reason I do my best to always have a clear conscience toward God and toward people.
  • Ezek 20:13 : 13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness; they did not follow my statutes and they rejected my regulations(the one who obeys them will live by them), and they utterly desecrated my Sabbaths. So I decided to pour out my rage on them in the wilderness and destroy them.
  • Ezek 33:15 : 15 He returns what was taken in pledge, pays back what he has stolen, and follows the statutes that give life, committing no iniquity. He will certainly live– he will not die.
  • Ezek 36:27 : 27 I will put my Spirit within you; I will take the initiative and you will obey my statutes and carefully observe my regulations.
  • Ezek 37:24 : 24 “‘My servant David will be king over them; there will be one shepherd for all of them. They will follow my regulations and carefully observe my statutes.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezek 18:16-24
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    16does not oppress anyone or keep what has been given in pledge, does not commit robbery, gives his food to the hungry, and clothes the naked,

    17refrains from wrongdoing, does not engage in usury or charge interest, carries out my regulations and follows my statutes. He will not die for his father’s iniquity; he will surely live.

    18As for his father, because he practices extortion, robs his brother, and does what is not good among his people, he will die for his iniquity.

    19“Yet you say,‘Why should the son not suffer for his father’s iniquity?’ When the son does what is just and right, and observes all my statutes and carries them out, he will surely live.

    20The person who sins is the one who will die. A son will not suffer for his father’s iniquity, and a father will not suffer for his son’s iniquity; the righteous person will be judged according to his righteousness, and the wicked person according to his wickedness.

    21“But if the wicked person turns from all the sin he has committed and observes all my statutes and does what is just and right, he will surely live; he will not die.

    22None of the sins he has committed will be held against him; because of the righteousness he has done, he will live.

    23Do I actually delight in the death of the wicked, declares the Sovereign LORD? Do I not prefer that he turn from his wicked conduct and live?

    24“But if a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and practices wrongdoing according to all the abominable practices the wicked carry out, will he live? All his righteous acts will not be remembered; because of the unfaithful acts he has done and the sin he has committed, he will die.

  • Ezek 18:5-8
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    5“Suppose a man is righteous. He practices what is just and right,

    6does not eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains or pray to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife, does not approach a woman for marital relations during her period,

    7does not oppress anyone, but gives the debtor back whatever was given in pledge, does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and clothes the naked,

    8does not engage in usury or charge interest, but refrains from wrongdoing, promotes true justice between men,

  • Lev 18:4-5
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    4You must observe my regulations and you must be sure to walk in my statutes. I am the LORD your God.

    5So you must keep my statutes and my regulations; anyone who does so will live by keeping them. I am the LORD.

  • Ezek 33:12-19
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    12“And you, son of man, say to your people,‘The righteousness of the righteous will not deliver him if he rebels. As for the wicked, his wickedness will not make him stumble if he turns from it. The righteous will not be able to live by his righteousness if he sins.’

    13Suppose I tell the righteous that he will certainly live, but he becomes confident in his righteousness and commits iniquity. None of his righteous deeds will be remembered; because of the iniquity he has committed he will die.

    14Suppose I say to the wicked,‘You must certainly die,’ but he turns from his sin and does what is just and right.

    15He returns what was taken in pledge, pays back what he has stolen, and follows the statutes that give life, committing no iniquity. He will certainly live– he will not die.

    16None of the sins he has committed will be counted against him. He has done what is just and right; he will certainly live.

    17“Yet your people say,‘The behavior of the Lord is not right,’ when it is their behavior that is not right.

    18When a righteous man turns from his godliness and commits iniquity, he will die for it.

    19When the wicked turns from his sin and does what is just and right, he will live because of it.

  • Ezek 18:26-29
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    26When a righteous person turns back from his righteousness and practices wrongdoing, he will die for it; because of the wrongdoing he has done, he will die.

    27When a wicked person turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will preserve his life.

    28Because he considered and turned from all the sins he had done, he will surely live; he will not die.

    29Yet the house of Israel says,‘The Lord’s conduct is unjust!’ Is my conduct unjust, O house of Israel? Is it not your conduct that is unjust?

  • Ezek 18:10
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    10“Suppose such a man has a violent son who sheds blood and does any of these things mentioned previously

  • Ezek 20:11
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    11I gave them my statutes and revealed my regulations to them. The one who carries them out will live by them!

  • Ezek 18:12-14
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    12oppresses the poor and the needy, commits robbery, does not give back what was given in pledge, prays to idols, performs abominable acts,

    13engages in usury and charges interest. Will he live? He will not! Because he has done all these abominable deeds he will certainly die. He will bear the responsibility for his own death.

    14“But suppose he in turn has a son who notices all the sins his father commits, considers them, and does not follow his father’s example.

  • Deut 16:20
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    20You must pursue justice alone so that you may live and inherit the land the LORD your God is giving you.

  • Lev 26:3
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    3The Benefits of Obedience“‘If you walk in my statutes and are sure to obey my commandments,

  • Ps 15:2
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    2Whoever lives a blameless life, does what is right, and speaks honestly.

  • Lev 25:18
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    18You must obey my statutes and my regulations; you must be sure to keep them so that you may live securely in the land.

  • Ezek 3:21
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    21However, if you warn the righteous person not to sin, and he does not sin, he will certainly live because he was warned, and you will have saved your own life.”

  • Isa 33:15
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    15The one who lives uprightly and speaks honestly; the one who refuses to profit from oppressive measures and rejects a bribe; the one who does not plot violent crimes and does not seek to harm others–

  • Lev 19:37
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    37You must be sure to obey all my statutes and regulations. I am the LORD.

  • Jer 4:2
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    2You must be truthful, honest and upright when you take an oath saying,‘As surely as the LORD lives!’ If you do, the nations will pray to be as blessed by him as you are and will make him the object of their boasting.”

  • Ezek 20:19
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    19I am the LORD your God; follow my statutes, observe my regulations, and carry them out.

  • Ezek 11:12
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    12Then you will know that I am the LORD, whose statutes you have not followed and whose regulations you have not carried out. Instead you have behaved according to the regulations of the nations around you!’”

  • Ezek 17:19
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    19“‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: As surely as I live, I will certainly repay him for despising my oath and breaking my covenant!

  • 1 Kgs 9:4
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    4You must serve me with integrity and sincerity, just as your father David did. Do everything I commanded and obey my rules and regulations.

  • Prov 20:7
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    7The righteous person behaves in integrity; blessed are his children after him.

  • Ezek 11:20
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    20so that they may follow my statutes and observe my regulations and carry them out. Then they will be my people, and I will be their God.

  • Ezek 33:10
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    10“And you, son of man, say to the house of Israel,‘This is what you have said:“Our rebellious acts and our sins have caught up with us, and we are wasting away because of them. How then can we live?”’

  • Rom 10:5
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    5For Moses writes about the righteousness that is by the law:“The one who does these things will live by them.”

  • Ezek 17:16
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    16“‘As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, surely in the city of the king who crowned him, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke– in the middle of Babylon he will die!

  • Ezek 18:32
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    32For I take no delight in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign LORD. Repent and live!