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 2:4Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.
• Ezek 20:11I gave them my statutes, and showed them my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them.
• Amos 5:4For Yahweh says to the house of Israel: “Seek me, and you will live;
• Deut 10:12–13Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
• Rom 1:17For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”
• 1 Jn 2:29If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.
• Ezek 18:17who has withdrawn his hand from the poor, who has not received interest nor increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of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.
• 1 Jn 3:7Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
• Luke 10:27–29He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”
• Amos 5:14Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be with you, as you say.
• 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 19:7–11Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s testimony is sure, making wise the simple.
• Acts 24:16Herein I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.
• Deut 5:1Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, “Hear, Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears today, that you may learn them, and observe to do them.”
• Jas 1:22–25But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
• Ezek 20:13“‘“But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They didn’t walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keeps, he shall live in them. They greatly profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume them.
• Amos 5:24But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
• Jas 2:18–26Yes, a man will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without works, and I by my works will show you my faith.
• Ezek 33:15if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
• Neh 9:13–14“You also came down on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,
• Lev 18:5You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances; which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am Yahweh.
• Ps 105:44–45He gave them the lands of the nations. They took the labor of the peoples in possession,
• Ps 24:4–6He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.
• John 14:21One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”
• Deut 11:1Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his instructions, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments, always.
• Deut 4:1Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances, which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, gives you.
• Ps 119:1–6ALEPH Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.
• Deut 6:1–2Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it;
• Ezek 37:24My servant David shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them.
• Luke 1:6They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

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