Ezekiel 18:31

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

³⁰ "As for me, I will judge every man, according to his ways, O ye house of Israel, sayeth the LORD God. Wherefore be converted, and turn you clean from all your wickedness, so shall there no sin do you harm. ³¹ Cast away from you all your ungodliness that ye have done: make you new hearts and a new spirit. Wherefore will ye die, O ye house of Israel? ³² Seeing I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, sayeth the LORD God; Turn you then, 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 you one heart, and will plant a new spirit within your bowels. That stony heart will I take out of your body, and give you a fleshly heart:

Psalm 51:10

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

Isaiah 1:16-17

Thus saith the LORD God: Wash and be clean; put away the wickedness of your imaginations out of my sight. Cease to do evil and learn to do well.

Ezekiel 36:26

And I will give you a new heart, and will put a new spirit in you. And will take away that stony heart out of your flesh, and give you a fleshly heart.

Romans 8:13

For if ye live after the flesh, ye must die. But if ye mortify the deeds of the body, by the help of the spirit, ye shall live,

Isaiah 55:7

Let the ungodly man forsake his ways and the unrighteous his imaginations, and turn again unto the LORD: so shall he be merciful unto him; and to our God, for he is ready to forgive.

Ezekiel 20:7

Then said I unto them, 'Cast away every man the abominations that he hath before him, and defile not yourselves with the Idols of Egypt, for I am the LORD your God.'

Ezekiel 33:11

Tell them, 'As truly as I live, sayeth the LORD God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but much rather that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn you, turn you from your ungodly ways, O ye of the house of Israel. Oh, wherefore will ye die?'

Deuteronomy 30:15

Behold, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil:

Deuteronomy 30:19

I take heaven and earth this day to record over you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. But choose life, that thou and thy seed may live;

Psalm 34:14

Eschew evil, and do good; seek peace, and ensue it.

Proverbs 8:36

But whoso offendeth against me, hurteth his own soul. All they that hate me, are the lovers of death."

Isaiah 30:22

Ye shall destroy also the covering of your silver images, and the decking of your golden idols. Even as filthiness shall ye put them away, and say, "Get you hence."

Jeremiah 21:8

"And unto this people thou shalt say, 'Thus sayeth the LORD: behold, I lay before you the way of life and death.

Jeremiah 27:15

neither have I sent them, sayeth the LORD: howbeit they are bold, falsely for to prophesy in my name: that I might the sooner drive you out, and that ye might perish with your preachers.'"

Jeremiah 32:39

And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me all the days of their life, that they and their children after them may prosper.

Matthew 12:33

Either make the tree good, and his fruit good also, or else make the tree evil, and his fruit evil also. For the tree is known by his fruit.

Matthew 23:26

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

Acts 3:19

Repent ye, therefore, and turn: that your sins may be done away when the time of refreshing cometh, which we shall have of the presence of the Lord,

Acts 13:46

Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, "It was meet that the word of God should first have been preached to you. But seeing ye put it from you, and think yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the gentiles.

Romans 12:2

And fashion not yourselves like unto this world: But be changed through the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what thing that good, that acceptable, and perfect will of God is.

Ephesians 4:22-32

so then, as concerning the conversation in time past, lay from you that old man, which is corrupt through the deceivable lusts,

Colossians 3:5-9

Mortify therefore your members which are on the earth; fornication, uncleanness, unnatural lust, evil concupiscence, and covetousness which is worshipping of idols:

James 1:21

Wherefore lay apart all filthiness, all superfluity of maliciousness, and receive with meekness the word that is grafted in you, which is able to save your souls:

James 4:8

Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands ye sinners, and purge your hearts ye wavering minded.

1 Peter 1:14

as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves unto your old lusts of ignorance:

1 Peter 1:22

And forasmuch as ye have purified your souls through the spirit, in obeying the truth for to love brotherly without feigning, see that ye love one another with a pure heart, fervently:

1 Peter 2:1

Wherefore, lay aside all maliciousness, and all guile, and dissimulation, and envy, and all backbiting:

1 Peter 4:2-4

that he henceforward should live as much time as remaineth in the flesh, not after the lusts of men: but after the will of God.