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 turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
• Ezek 33:19When the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
• Titus 2:11–14For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,
• Rom 8:13For 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.
• Ezek 18:9has walked in my statutes, and has kept my ordinances, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live,” says the Lord Yahweh.
• Prov 28:13He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
• Acts 3:19“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,
• Luke 24:47and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
• 1 Tim 1:13–16although I was before a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
• Ezek 18:5“But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful 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 2:26For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.
• Ps 119:112I have set my heart to perform your statutes forever, even to the end. SAMEKH
• Isa 1:16–20Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.
• Ps 119:80Let my heart be blameless toward your decrees, that I may not be disappointed. KAF
• Acts 26:18–20to 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.’
• Ezek 18:19“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“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.
• Gal 5:22–24But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
• Jas 2:14What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?
• Ezek 33:11–16Tell 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?
• Isa 55:6–7Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.
• Ezek 36:27I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my ordinances, and do them.
• Ps 119:1ALEPH Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.
• Luke 1:6They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.
• Ezek 3:21Nevertheless 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.”
• Gen 26:5because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”
• 2 Chr 33:12–13When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
• Ezek 18:17who 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.

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