Ezekiel 18:24

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Ezekiel 18:22–26 · Berean Standard Bible

22 None of the transgressions he has committed will be held against him. Because of the righteousness he has practiced, he will live.

23 Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Lord GOD. Wouldn’t I prefer that he turn from his ways and live?

24 But if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity, committing the same abominations as the wicked, will he live? None of the righteous acts he did will be remembered. Because of the unfaithfulness and sin he has committed, he will die.

25 Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Hear now, O house of Israel: Is it My way that is unjust? Is it not your ways that are unjust?

26 If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity, he will die for this. He will die because of the iniquity he has committed.

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Ezekiel 18:26

If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity, he will die for this. He will die because of the iniquity he has committed.

Ezekiel 3:20

Now if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I put a stumbling block before him, he will die. If you did not warn him, he will die in his sin, and the righteous acts he did will not be remembered. And I will hold you responsible for his blood.

Ezekiel 3:21

But if you warn the righteous man not to sin, and he does not sin, he will indeed live because he heeded your warning, and you will have saved yourself.”

Ezekiel 33:12

Therefore, son of man, say to your people: ‘The righteousness of the righteous man will not deliver him in the day of his transgression; neither will the wickedness of the wicked man cause him to stumble on the day he turns from his wickedness. Nor will the righteous man be able to survive by his righteousness on the day he sins.’

Ezekiel 33:13

If I tell the righteous man that he will surely live, but he then trusts in his righteousness and commits iniquity, then none of his righteous works will be remembered; he will die because of the iniquity he has committed.

Ezekiel 33:18

If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he will die for it.

1 Samuel 15:11

“I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned away from following Me and has not carried out My instructions.” And Samuel was distressed and cried out to the LORD all that night.

2 Chronicles 24:2

And Joash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest.

2 Chronicles 24:17

After the death of Jehoiada, however, the officials of Judah came and paid homage to the king, and he listened to them.

2 Chronicles 24:18

They abandoned the house of the LORD, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherah poles and idols. So wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this guilt of theirs.

2 Chronicles 24:19

Nevertheless, the LORD sent prophets to bring the people back to Him and to testify against them; but they would not listen.

2 Chronicles 24:20

Then the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest, who stood up before the people and said to them, “This is what God says: ‘Why do you transgress the commandments of the LORD so that you cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken the LORD, He has forsaken you.’”

2 Chronicles 24:21

But they conspired against Zechariah, and by order of the king, they stoned him in the courtyard of the house of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 24:22

Thus King Joash failed to remember the kindness that Zechariah’s father Jehoiada had extended to him. Instead, Joash killed Jehoiada’s son. As he lay dying, Zechariah said, “May the LORD see this and call you to account.”

Psalms 36:3

The words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful; he has ceased to be wise and well-doing.

Psalms 36:4

Even on his bed he plots wickedness; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he fails to reject evil.

Psalms 125:5

But those who turn to crooked ways the LORD will banish with the evildoers. Peace be upon Israel.

Zephaniah 1:6

and those who turn back from following the LORD, neither seeking the LORD nor inquiring of Him.”

Matthew 13:20

The seed sown on rocky ground is the one who hears the word and at once receives it with joy.

Matthew 13:21

But since he has no root, he remains for only a season. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, he quickly falls away.

John 6:66

From that time on many of His disciples turned back and no longer walked with Him.

John 6:67

So Jesus asked the Twelve, “Do you want to leave too?”

John 6:68

Simon Peter replied, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.

John 6:69

We believe and know that You are the Holy One of God.”

John 6:70

Jesus answered them, “Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!”

Galatians 5:7

You were running so well. Who has obstructed you from obeying the truth?

Hebrews 10:38

But My righteous one will live by faith; and if he shrinks back, I will take no pleasure in him.”

Hebrews 10:39

But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.

2 Peter 2:18

With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error.

2 Peter 2:19

They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to depravity. For a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.

2 Peter 2:20

If indeed they have escaped the corruption of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, only to be entangled and overcome by it again, their final condition is worse than it was at first.

2 Peter 2:21

It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than to have known it and then to turn away from the holy commandment passed on to them.

2 Peter 2:22

Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.”

1 John 2:19

They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of them belonged to us.

1 John 5:16

If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he should ask God, who will give life to those who commit this kind of sin. There is a sin that leads to death; I am not saying he should ask regarding that sin.

1 John 5:17

All unrighteousness is sin, yet there is sin that does not lead to death.

1 John 5:18

We know that anyone born of God does not keep on sinning; the One who was born of God protects him, and the evil one cannot touch him.

Jude 1:12

These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being uprooted.

Ezekiel 18:10

Now suppose that man has a violent son, who sheds blood or does any of these things,

Ezekiel 18:11

though the father has done none of them: Indeed, the son eats at the mountain and defiles his neighbor’s wife.

Ezekiel 18:12

He oppresses the poor and needy; he commits robbery and does not restore a pledge. He lifts his eyes to idols; he commits abominations.

Ezekiel 18:13

He engages in usury and takes excess interest. Will this son live? He will not! Since he has committed all these abominations, he will surely die; his blood will be on his own head.

Matthew 12:43

When an unclean spirit comes out of a man, it passes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it.

Matthew 12:44

Then it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’ On its return, it finds the house vacant, swept clean, and put in order.

Matthew 12:45

Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and dwell there; and the final plight of that man is worse than the first. So will it be with this wicked generation.”

Romans 1:28

Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.

Romans 1:29

They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,

Romans 1:30

slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents.

Romans 1:31

They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless.

2 Corinthians 12:20

For I am afraid that when I come, I may not find you as I wish, and you may not find me as you wish. I fear that there may be quarreling, jealousy, rage, rivalry, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.

2 Corinthians 12:21

I am afraid that when I come again, my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of their acts of impurity, sexual immorality, and debauchery.

2 Timothy 3:1

But understand this: In the last days terrible times will come.

2 Timothy 3:2

For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

2 Timothy 3:3

unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good,

2 Timothy 3:4

traitorous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

2 Timothy 3:5

having a form of godliness but denying its power. Turn away from such as these!

Ezekiel 18:22

None of the transgressions he has committed will be held against him. Because of the righteousness he has practiced, he will live.

Mark 13:13

You will be hated by everyone because of My name, but the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.

Galatians 3:4

Have you suffered so much for nothing, if it really was for nothing?

Hebrews 6:4

It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit,

Hebrews 6:5

who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age—

Hebrews 6:6

and then have fallen away—to be restored to repentance, because they themselves are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting Him to open shame.

Hebrews 10:26

If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains,

Hebrews 10:27

but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume all adversaries.

Hebrews 10:28

Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

Hebrews 10:29

How much more severely do you think one deserves to be punished who has trampled on the Son of God, profaned the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and insulted the Spirit of grace?

Hebrews 10:30

For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine; I will repay,” and again, “The Lord will judge His people.”

Hebrews 10:31

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

2 John 1:8

Watch yourselves, so that you do not lose what we have worked for, but that you may be fully rewarded.

Revelation 2:10

Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Look, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison to test you, and you will suffer tribulation for ten days. Be faithful even unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.

Revelation 3:11

I am coming soon. Hold fast to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.

Ezekiel 18:18

As for his father, he will die for his own iniquity, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother, and did what was wrong among his people.

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.

Proverbs 21:16

The man who strays from the path of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.

Matthew 7:22

Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’

Matthew 7:23

Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!’

John 8:21

Again He said to them, “I am going away, and you will look for Me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.”

John 8:24

That is why I told you that you would die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.”