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 18:27–28Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
• Ezek 33:19But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
• Titus 2:11–14For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
• Rom 8:13For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
• Ezek 18:9Hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord GOD.
• Prov 28:13He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
• Acts 3:19Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
• Luke 24:47And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
• 1 Tim 1:13–16Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
• Ezek 18:5But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,
• Jas 4:8–10Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
• Jas 2:26For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
• Ps 119:112I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, even unto the end.
• Isa 1:16–20Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
• Ps 119:80Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.
• Acts 26:18–20To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
• Ezek 18:19Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.
• Ezek 18:30Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
• Gal 5:22–24But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
• Jas 2:14What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
• Ezek 33:11–16Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
• Isa 55:6–7Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:
• Ezek 36:27And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
• Ps 119:1Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.
• Luke 1:6And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
• Ezek 3:21Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.
• Gen 26:5Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
• 2 Chr 33:12–13And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
• Ezek 18:17That hath taken off his hand from the poor, that hath not received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.

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