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 turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die therein.
• Prov 21:16The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the departed spirits.
• 2 Jn 1:8Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.
• Ezek 33:12–13You, 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.
• Gal 3:4Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?
• 2 Chr 24:17–22Now after the death of Jehoiada, the princes of Judah came, and bowed down to the king. Then the king listened to them.
• Rev 3:11I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.
• Rev 2:10Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.
• 1 Jn 2:19They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.
• Ezek 18:26When the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies therein; in his iniquity that he has done shall he die.
• Ezek 18:22None of his transgressions that he has committed shall be remembered against him. In his righteousness that he has done, he shall live.
• Ezek 3:20–21“Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits 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.
• Matt 7:22–23Many will tell me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?’
• 1 Sam 15:11“It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments.” Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.
• Ezek 18:10–13“If he fathers a son who is a robber who sheds blood, and who does any one of these things,
• 2 Pet 2:18–22For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
• Rom 1:28–31Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
• Heb 10:38–39But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”
• John 8:24I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”
• Gal 5:7You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?
• Heb 6:4–6For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
• Matt 13:20–21What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word, and immediately with joy receives it;
• Zeph 1:6those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.
• 2 Tim 3:1–5But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come.
• 2 Cor 12:20–21For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;
• Mark 13:13You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.
• Heb 10:26–31For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,
• Ps 125:5But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.
• Ps 36:3–4The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.
• John 6:66–70At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
• Jude 1:12These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
• 1 Jn 5:16–18If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death. I don’t say that he should make a request concerning this.
• Prov 14:32The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.
• 2 Chr 24:2Joash did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
• John 8:21Jesus said therefore again to them, “I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can’t come.”
• Matt 12:43–45When an unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and doesn’t find it.
• Ezek 18:18As 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.
• Ezek 20:27“Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “In this moreover your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.

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