Ezekiel 18:31

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

³⁰ Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, each one according to his ways, said the Lord GOD. Repent and turn yourselves from all your iniquities, so iniquity shall not be your ruin. ³¹ Cast away from you all your transgressions which you have committed and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! For why will you die, O house of Israel? ³² For I do not desire the death of him that dies, said the Lord GOD; therefore turn yourselves, and ye shall live.

Children of Israel

House of Israel

People of Israel

Why Will You Die

Israel

Sin

Ezekiel 11:19

And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh and will give them a heart of flesh:

Psalm 51:10

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

Isaiah 1:16-17

Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil;

Ezekiel 36:26

And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

Romans 8:13

For if ye live according to the flesh, ye shall die; but if through the Spirit ye mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

Isaiah 55:7

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Ezekiel 20:7

then said I unto them, Cast away each one of you all worship of god fabricated by carnal appearance and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

Ezekiel 33:11

Say unto them, As I live, said the Lord GOD, I do not desire the death of the wicked but that the wicked turn from his way and that he live; turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

Deuteronomy 30:15

See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;

Deuteronomy 30:19

I call the heavens and the earth to witness today against you that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore, choose life that both thou and thy seed may live,

Psalm 34:14

Nun Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

Proverbs 8:36

But he that sins against me wrongs his own soul; all those that hate me love death.

Isaiah 30:22

Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver and the protection of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Go away from here.

Jeremiah 21:8

And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus hath the LORD said: Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.

Jeremiah 27:15

For I have not sent them, saith the LORD, yet they prophesy a lie in my name; that I might drive you out and that ye might perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto you.

Jeremiah 32:39

and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me for ever for the good of them and of their sons after them:

Matthew 12:33

Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree corrupt and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.

Matthew 23:26

Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter that the outside of them may be clean also.

Acts 3:19

Repent ye therefore and be converted that your sins may be blotted out, for the times of refreshing of the presence of the Lord are come;

Acts 13:46

Then Paul and Barnabas speaking with freedom, said, It was necessary indeed that the word of God should first have been spoken to you; but seeing ye put it from you and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.

Romans 12:2

And be not conformed to this age, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your soul that ye may experience what is that good and well pleasing and perfect will of God.

Ephesians 4:22-32

that ye put off everything concerning the old way of life, that is, the old man who corrupts himself according to deceitful desires,

Colossians 3:5-9

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil lust, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

James 1:21

So then, leave all uncleanness and remains of malice and receive with meekness the word ingested within you, which is able to cause your souls to be saved.

James 4:8

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

1 Peter 1:14

as obedient sons, not conforming yourselves with the former desires that you had before in your ignorance,

1 Peter 1:22

Having purified your souls in the obedience of the truth, by the Spirit, in unfeigned brotherly love, love one another with a pure heart fervently,

1 Peter 2:1

Having therefore left all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envies and all murmurings,

1 Peter 4:2-4

so that now the time that remains in the flesh, he might live, not unto the lusts of men, but unto the will of God.