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 20:11I gave them my statutes, and showed them my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them.
• Luke 19:8Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much.”
• Exod 22:1–4“If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it, or sells it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
• Lev 6:2–5“If anyone sins, and commits a trespass against Yahweh, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbor,
• Ps 119:93I will never forget your precepts, for with them, you have revived me.
• Lev 18:5You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances; which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am Yahweh.
• Ezek 18:7and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;
• Ezek 18:27–28Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
• Deut 24:17You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;
• Amos 2:8and they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.
• Ezek 18:12has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,
• Ezek 18:16neither has wronged any, has not taken anything to pledge, neither has taken by robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;
• Ezek 20:21“‘“But the children rebelled against me. They didn’t walk in my statutes, neither kept my ordinances to do them, which if a man do, he shall live in them. They profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
• Deut 24:10–13When you lend your neighbor any kind of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.
• Job 22:6For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
• Deut 24:6No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone as a pledge; for he takes a life in pledge.
• 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.
• Rev 22:12–14“Behold, I come quickly. My reward is with me, to repay to each man according to his work.
• Job 24:9There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,
• Num 5:6–8“Speak to the children of Israel: ‘When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit, so as to trespass against Yahweh, and that soul is guilty;
• Exod 22:26–27If you take your neighbor’s garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,
• Job 24:3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
• Luke 1:6They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

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