Ezekiel 18:21

World English Bible (2000)

But if the wicked turn from all his sins that he has committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

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  • Ezek 18:27-28 : 27 Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. 28 Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
  • Ezek 33:19 : 19 When the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
  • Ezek 18:19 : 19 Yet you say, Why doesn't the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son has done that which is lawful and right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live.
  • Ezek 18:30 : 30 Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways, says the Lord Yahweh. Return, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
  • Ezek 18:5 : 5 But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful and right,
  • Ezek 18:9 : 9 has walked in my statutes, and has kept my ordinances, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, says the Lord Yahweh.
  • Prov 28:13 : 13 He who conceals his sins doesn't prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
  • Luke 24:47 : 47 and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
  • Acts 3:19 : 19 "Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,
  • Acts 26:18-20 : 18 to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.' 19 "Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, 20 but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.
  • Rom 8:13 : 13 For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
  • Gal 5:22-24 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, 23 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.
  • 1 Tim 1:13-16 : 13 although I was before a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. 14 The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. 15 The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief. 16 However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience, for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.
  • Titus 2:11-14 : 11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, 12 instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world; 13 looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ; 14 who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
  • Jas 2:14 : 14 What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?
  • Jas 2:26 : 26 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.
  • Jas 4:8-9 : 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
  • Isa 1:16-20 : 16 Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil. 17 Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow." 18 "Come now, and let us reason together," says Yahweh: "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. 19 If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land; 20 but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it."
  • Isa 55:6-7 : 6 Seek Yahweh while he may be found; call you on him while he is near: 7 let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
  • Ezek 3:21 : 21 Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he took warning; and you have delivered your soul.
  • Gen 26:5 : 5 because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."
  • 2 Chr 33:12-13 : 12 When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. 13 He prayed to him; and he was entreated by him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Yahweh was God.
  • Ps 119:1 : 1 Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh's law.
  • Ps 119:80 : 80 Let my heart be blameless toward your decrees, that I may not be disappointed. KAF
  • Ps 119:112 : 112 I have set my heart to perform your statutes forever, even to the end. SAMEKH
  • Ezek 18:17 : 17 who has withdrawn his hand from the poor, who has not received interest nor increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.
  • Ezek 33:11-16 : 11 Tell them, As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn, turn from your evil ways; for why will you die, house of Israel? 12 You, son of man, tell the children of your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his disobedience; and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither shall he who is righteous be able to live thereby in the day that he sins. 13 When I tell the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his righteousness, and commit iniquity, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered; but in his iniquity that he has committed, therein shall he die. 14 Again, when I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right; 15 if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no 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.
  • Ezek 36:27 : 27 I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my ordinances, and do them.
  • Luke 1:6 : 6 They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

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  • Ezek 33:18-19
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    18When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die therein.

    19When the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.

  • Ezek 18:26-28
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    26When the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies therein; in his iniquity that he has done shall he die.

    27Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.

    28Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

  • Ezek 33:8-16
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    8When I tell the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die, and you don't speak to warn the wicked from his way; that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at your hand.

    9Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, and he doesn't turn from his way; he shall die in his iniquity, but you have delivered your soul.

    10You, son of man, tell the house of Israel: Thus you speak, saying, Our transgressions and our sins are on us, and we pine away in them; how then can we live?

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

    12You, son of man, tell the children of your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his disobedience; and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither shall he who is righteous be able to live thereby in the day that he sins.

    13When I tell the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his righteousness, and commit iniquity, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered; but in his iniquity that he has committed, therein shall he die.

    14Again, when I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;

    15if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.

    16None 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.

  • Ezek 18:22-24
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    22None of his transgressions that he has committed shall be remembered against him: in his righteousness that he has done he shall live.

    23Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked? says the Lord Yahweh; and not rather that he should return from his way, and live?

    24But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered: in his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them shall he die.

  • Ezek 18:17-20
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    17who has withdrawn his hand from the poor, who has not received interest nor increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.

    18As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother, and did that which is not good among his people, behold, he shall die in his iniquity.

    19Yet you say, Why doesn't the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son has done that which is lawful and right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live.

    20The soul who sins, he shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.

  • Ezek 18:8-10
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    8he who has not given forth on interest, neither has taken any increase, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man,

    9has walked in my statutes, and has kept my ordinances, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, says the Lord Yahweh.

    10If he fathers a son who is a robber, a shedder of blood, and who does any one of these things,

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    18When I tell the wicked, You shall surely die; and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at your hand.

    19Yet if you warn the wicked, and he doesn't turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.

    20Again, when a righteous man does turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die: because you have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand.

    21Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he took warning; and you have delivered your soul.

  • Ezek 18:4-5
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    4Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins, he shall die.

    5But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful and right,

  • Ezek 18:30-32
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    30Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways, says the Lord Yahweh. Return, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.

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

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

  • Lev 18:5
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    5You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances; which if a man does, he shall live in them: I am Yahweh.

  • Ezek 18:13-14
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    13has given forth on interest, and has taken increase; shall he then live? he shall not live: he has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be on him.

    14Now, behold, if he fathers a son, who sees all his father's sins, which he has done, and fears, and does not such like;

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

  • Prov 11:19
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    19He who is truly righteous gets life. He who pursues evil gets death.

  • Prov 19:16
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    16He who keeps the commandment keeps his soul, but he who is contemptuous in his ways shall die.

  • Jas 5:20
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  • Prov 14:32
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