Ezekiel 33:15

Such repentance shows itself concretely—restoring pledges, returning stolen goods, walking in God's statutes—and the wicked 'shall surely live.' Real turning produces real change.

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• 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.
• Luke 19:8But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord, half of my possessions I give to the poor, and if I have cheated anyone, I will repay it fourfold.”
• Exod 22:1–4“If a man steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters or sells it, he must repay five oxen for an ox and four sheep for a sheep.
• Lev 6:2–5“If someone sins and acts unfaithfully against the LORD by deceiving his neighbor in regard to a deposit or security entrusted to him or stolen, or if he extorts his neighbor
• Ps 119:93I will never forget Your precepts, for by them You have revived me.
• Lev 18:5Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD.
• Ezek 18:7He does not oppress another, but restores the pledge to the debtor. He does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.
• Ezek 18:27–28But if a wicked man turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will save his life.
• Deut 24:17Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.
• Amos 2:8They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. And in the house of their God, they drink wine obtained through fines.
• Ezek 18:12He oppresses the poor and needy; he commits robbery and does not restore a pledge. He lifts his eyes to idols; he commits abominations.
• Ezek 18:16He does not oppress another, or retain a pledge, or commit robbery. He gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.
• Ezek 20:21But the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes or carefully observe My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they profaned My Sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the wilderness.
• Deut 24:10–13When you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security.
• Job 22:6For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing.
• Deut 24:6Do not take a pair of millstones or even an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that would be taking one’s livelihood as security.
• 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.
• Rev 22:12–14“Behold, I am coming soon, and My reward is with Me, to give to each one according to what he has done.
• Job 24:9The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
• Num 5:6–8“Tell the Israelites that when a man or woman acts unfaithfully against the LORD by committing any sin against another, that person is guilty
• Exod 22:26–27If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset,
• Job 24:3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
• 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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