Ezekiel 18:24

If the righteous turns to wickedness, his former righteousness will not be remembered, and he will die. Perseverance in righteousness matters.

Cross-references · 38

• Ezek 33:18When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby.
• Prov 21:16The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.
• 2 Jn 1:8Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
• Ezek 33:12–13Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.
• Gal 3:4Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.
• 2 Chr 24:17–22Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened unto them.
• Rev 3:11Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.
• Rev 2:10Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
• 1 Jn 2:19They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
• Ezek 18:26When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.
• Ezek 18:22All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live.
• Ezek 3:20–21Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
• Matt 7:22–23Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
• 1 Sam 15:11It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.
• Ezek 18:10–13If he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that doeth the like to any one of these things,
• 2 Pet 2:18–22For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
• Rom 1:28–31And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
• Heb 10:38–39Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
• John 8:24I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.
• Gal 5:7Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?
• Heb 6:4–6For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
• Matt 13:20–21But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it;
• Zeph 1:6And them that are turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor enquired for him.
• 2 Tim 3:1–5This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
• 2 Cor 12:20–21For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
• Mark 13:13And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
• Heb 10:26–31For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
• Ps 125:5As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.
• Ps 36:3–4The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.
• John 6:66–70From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
• Jude 1:12These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
• 1 Jn 5:16–18If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.
• Prov 14:32The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
• 2 Chr 24:2And Joash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
• John 8:21Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come.
• Matt 12:43–45When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.
• Ezek 18:18As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did that which is not good among his people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.
• Ezek 20:27Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.

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