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 shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them.
• Luke 19:8And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.
• Exod 22:1–4If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
• Lev 6:2–5If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour;
• Ps 119:93I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me.
• Lev 18:5Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.
• Ezek 18:7And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;
• Ezek 18:27–28Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
• Deut 24:17Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment to pledge:
• Amos 2:8And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
• Ezek 18:12Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination,
• Ezek 18:16Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment,
• Ezek 20:21Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
• Deut 24:10–13When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
• Job 22:6For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
• Deut 24:6No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man’s life to pledge.
• Ezek 20:13But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
• Rev 22:12–14And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
• Job 24:9They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
• Num 5:6–8Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against the LORD, and that person be guilty;
• Exod 22:26–27If thou at all take thy neighbour’s raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
• Job 24:3They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
• Luke 1:6And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

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