Ezekiel 18:21

If the wicked turns from all his sins and keeps God's statutes, he will surely live. Repentance opens the door to life.

Cross-references · 29

• Ezek 18:27–28But if a wicked man turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will save his life.
• Ezek 33:19But if a wicked man turns from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he will live because of this.
• Titus 2:11–14For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to everyone.
• Rom 8:13For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
• Ezek 18:9He follows My statutes and faithfully keeps My ordinances. That man is righteous; surely he will live, declares the Lord GOD.
• Prov 28:13He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.
• Acts 3:19Repent, then, and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away,
• Luke 24:47and in His name repentance and forgiveness of sins will be proclaimed to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.
• 1 Tim 1:13–16I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violent man; yet because I had acted in ignorance and unbelief, I was shown mercy.
• Ezek 18:5Now suppose a man is righteous and does what is just and right:
• Jas 4:8–10Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
• Jas 2:26As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.
• Ps 119:112I have inclined my heart to perform Your statutes, even to the very end.
• Isa 1:16–20Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!
• Ps 119:80May my heart be blameless in Your statutes, that I may not be put to shame.
• Acts 26:18–20to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’
• Ezek 18:19Yet you may ask, ‘Why shouldn’t the son bear the iniquity of his father?’ Since the son has done what is just and right, carefully observing all My statutes, he will surely live.
• Ezek 18:30Therefore, O house of Israel, I will judge you, each according to his ways, declares the Lord GOD. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, so that your iniquity will not become your downfall.
• Gal 5:22–24But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
• Jas 2:14What good is it, my brothers, if someone claims to have faith, but has no deeds? Can such faith save him?
• Ezek 33:11–16Say to them: ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked should turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’
• Isa 55:6–7Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
• Ezek 36:27And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and to carefully observe My ordinances.
• Ps 119:1Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the Law of the LORD.
• Luke 1:6Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and decrees of the Lord.
• Ezek 3:21But if you warn the righteous man not to sin, and he does not sin, he will indeed live because he heeded your warning, and you will have saved yourself.”
• Gen 26:5because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”
• 2 Chr 33:12–13And in his distress, Manasseh sought the favor of the LORD his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his fathers.
• Ezek 18:17He withholds his hand from harming the poor and takes no interest or usury. He keeps My ordinances and follows My statutes. Such a man will not die for his father’s iniquity. He will surely live.

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