Ezekiel 18:9

Such a man walks in God's statutes and deals truly, and he will surely live. Genuine obedience leads to life.

Cross-references · 30

• Hab 2:4Look at the proud one; his soul is not upright—but the righteous will live by faith—
• Ezek 20:11And I gave them My statutes and made known to them My ordinances—for the man who does these things will live by them.
• Amos 5:4For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek Me and live!
• Deut 10:12–13And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
• Rom 1:17For the gospel reveals the righteousness of God that comes by faith from start to finish, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”
• 1 Jn 2:29If you know that He is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him.
• 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.
• 1 Jn 3:7Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Christ is righteous.
• Luke 10:27–29He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’ and ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”
• Amos 5:14Seek good, not evil, so that you may live. And the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be with you, as you have claimed.
• 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 19:7–11The Law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy, making wise the simple.
• Acts 24:16In this hope, I strive always to maintain a clear conscience before God and man.
• Deut 5:1Then Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: Hear, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances that I declare in your hearing this day. Learn them and observe them carefully.
• Jas 1:22–25Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.
• Ezek 20:13Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not follow My statutes and they rejected My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they utterly profaned My Sabbaths. Then I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and put an end to them in the wilderness.
• Amos 5:24But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
• Jas 2:18–26But someone will say, “You have faith and I have deeds.” Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds.
• Ezek 33:15if he restores a pledge, makes restitution for what he has stolen, and walks in the statutes of life without practicing iniquity—then he will surely live; he will not die.
• Neh 9:13–14You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven. You gave them just ordinances, true laws, and good statutes and commandments.
• Lev 18:5Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD.
• Ps 105:44–45He gave them the lands of the nations, that they might inherit the fruit of others’ labor,
• Ps 24:4–6He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear deceitfully.
• John 14:21Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”
• Deut 11:1You shall therefore love the LORD your God and always keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments.
• Deut 4:1Hear now, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances I am teaching you to follow, so that you may live and may enter and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
• Ps 119:1–6Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the Law of the LORD.
• Deut 6:1–2These are the commandments and statutes and ordinances that the LORD your God has instructed me to teach you to follow in the land that you are about to enter and possess,
• Ezek 37:24My servant David will be king over them, and there will be one shepherd for all of them. They will follow My ordinances and keep and observe My statutes.
• Luke 1:6Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and decrees of the Lord.

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