Ezekiel 18:31

God's Just Treatment Of Individuals, Both Righteous And Wicked

³⁰ "Therefore, Israel, I'm going to judge you according to the behavior of each and every one of you," declares the Lord GOD. "So repent and turn from all your sins so that sin won't keep on being a stumbling block for you. ³¹ Stop your transgressing the deeds by which you've rebelled and then make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, you house of Israel? ³² I don't take pleasure in the death of anyone who dies," declares the LORD. "So repent, so you may live!"

Children of Israel

House of Israel

People of Israel

Why Will You Die

Israel

Sin

Ezekiel 11:19

then I'll give them a united heart, placing a new spirit within them. I'll remove their stubborn heart and give them a heart that's sensitive to me.

Psalm 51:10

God, create a pure heart in me, and renew a right attitude within me.

Isaiah 1:16-17

"Wash yourselves, and make yourselves clean; remove your evil behavior from my presence; stop practicing what is evil.

Ezekiel 36:26

"""I'm going to give you a new heart, and I'm going to give you a new spirit within all of your deepest parts. I'll remove that rock-hard heart of yours and replace it with one that's sensitive to me.

Romans 8:13

For if you live according to human nature, you are going to die, but if by the Spirit you continuously put to death the activities of the body, you will live.

Isaiah 55:7

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous person his thoughts. Let him return to the LORD, So he'll have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he'll pardon abundantly.

Ezekiel 20:7

Then I told them, "Each of you are to abandon your detestable practices. You are not to defile yourselves with Egypt's idols. I am the LORD your God.'"'"

Ezekiel 33:11

"Tell them, "As certainly as I'm alive and living,' declares the Lord GOD, "I receive no pleasure in the death of the wicked. Instead, my pleasure is that the wicked repent from their behavior and live. Turn back! Turn back, all of you, from your wicked behavior! Why do you have to die, you house of Israel?'"

Deuteronomy 30:15

"Look! Today I have set before you life and what is good, along with death and what is evil.

Deuteronomy 30:19

I call heaven and earth to testify against you today! I've set life and death before you today: both blessings and curses. Choose life, that it may be well with you you and your children.

Psalm 34:14

Avoid evil and do good! Seek peace and pursue it!

Proverbs 8:36

But whoever sins against me destroys himself; everyone who hates me loves death."

Isaiah 30:22

Then you will defile your carved idols that are overlaid with silver and your images plated with gold. You'll throw them away like disgusting objects and say to them, "Away with you!"

Jeremiah 21:8

"You are to say to this people, "This is what the LORD says: "I'm about to set before you the way of life and the way of death.

Jeremiah 27:15

For I didn't send them," declares the LORD, "and they're falsely prophesying in my name, so I will drive both you and the prophets who prophesy to you out of the land."

Jeremiah 32:39

I'll give them one heart and one lifestyle so they'll fear me always for their own good and for the good of their descendants after them.

Matthew 12:33

"Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree rotten and its fruit rotten, because a tree is known by its fruit.

Matthew 23:26

You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup, so that its outside may also be clean.

Acts 3:19

Therefore, repent and turn to him to have your sins blotted out,

Acts 13:46

Then Paul and Barnabas boldly declared, "We had to speak God's word to you first, but since you reject it and consider yourselves unworthy of eternal life, we are now going to turn to the gentiles.

Romans 12:2

Do not be conformed to this world, but continuously be transformed by the renewing of your minds so that you may be able to determine what God's will is what is proper, pleasing, and perfect.

Ephesians 4:22-32

Regarding your former way of life, you were taught to strip off your old nature, which is being ruined by its deceptive desires,

Colossians 3:5-9

So put to death your worldly impulses: sexual sin, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry).

James 1:21

Therefore, rid yourselves of everything impure and every expression of wickedness, and with a gentle spirit welcome the word planted in you that can save your souls.

James 4:8

Come close to God, and he will come close to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

1 Peter 1:14

As obedient children, do not be shaped by the desires that used to influence you when you were ignorant.

1 Peter 1:22

Now that you have obeyed the truth and have purified your souls to love your brothers sincerely, you must love one another intensely and with a pure heart.

1 Peter 2:1

Therefore, rid yourselves of every kind of evil and deception, hypocrisy, jealousy, and every kind of slander.

1 Peter 4:2-4

so that he can live the rest of his mortal life guided, not by human desires, but by the will of God.