Ezekiel 18:32
For I have no pleasure in the death of him on whom death comes, says the Lord: be turned back then, and have life.
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Ezekiel 18:32
For I have no pleasure in the death of him on whom death comes, says the Lord: be turned back then, and have life.
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Ezekiel 18:30
For this cause I will be your judge, O children of Israel, judging every man by his ways, says the Lord. Come back and be turned from all your sins; so that they may not be the cause of your falling into evil.
Ezekiel 18:31
Put away all your evil-doing in which you have done sin; and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: why are you desiring death, O children of Israel?
Isaiah 55:6
Make search for the Lord while he is there, make prayer to him while he is near:
Isaiah 55:7
Let the sinner give up his way, and the evil-doer his purpose: and let him come back to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for there is full forgiveness with him.
Isaiah 1:16
Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning;
Isaiah 1:17
Take pleasure in well-doing; let your ways be upright, keep down the cruel, give a right decision for the child who has no father, see to the cause of the widow.
Isaiah 1:18
Come now, and let us have an argument together, says the Lord: how may your sins which are red like blood be white as snow? how may their dark purple seem like wool?
Proverbs 28:13
He who keeps his sins secret will not do well; but one who is open about them, and gives them up, will get mercy.
Hosea 14:1
O Israel, come back to the Lord your God; for your evil-doing has been the cause of your fall.
James 4:8
Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind.
James 4:9
Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief.
James 4:10
Make yourselves low in the eyes of the Lord and you will be lifted up by him.
2 Chronicles 7:14
If my people, on whom my name is named, make themselves low and come to me in prayer, searching for me and turning from their evil ways; then I will give ear from heaven, overlooking their sin, and will give life again to their land.
Jeremiah 18:8
If, in that very minute, that nation of which I was talking is turned away from its evil, my purpose of doing evil to them will be changed.
Daniel 4:27
For this cause, O King, let my suggestion be pleasing to you, and let your sins be covered by righteousness and your evil-doing by mercy to the poor, so that the time of your well-being may be longer.
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Ezekiel 18:19
But you say, Why does not the son undergo punishment for the evil-doing of the father? When the son has done what is ordered and right, and has kept my rules and done them, life will certainly be his.
Ezekiel 18:20
The soul which does sin will be put to death: the son will not be made responsible for the evil-doing of the father, or the father for the evil-doing of the son; the righteousness of the upright will be on himself, and the evil-doing of the evil-doer on himself.
Ezekiel 18:21
But if the evil-doer, turning away from all the sins which he has done, keeps my rules and does what is ordered and right, life will certainly be his; death will not be his fate.
Ezekiel 18:22
Not one of the sins which he has done will be kept in memory against him: in the righteousness which he has done he will have life.
Ezekiel 18:23
Have I any pleasure in the death of the evil-doer? says the Lord: am I not pleased if he is turned from his way so that he may have life?
Ezekiel 18:24
But when the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, like all the disgusting things which the evil man does, will he have life? Not one of his upright acts will be kept in memory: in the wrong which he has done and in his sin death will overtake him.
Ezekiel 18:25
But you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Give ear, now, O children of Israel; is my way not equal? are not your ways unequal?
Ezekiel 18:26
When the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, death will overtake him; in the evil which he has done death will overtake him.
Ezekiel 18:27
Again, when the evil-doer, turning away from the evil he has done, does what is ordered and right, he will have life for his soul.
Ezekiel 18:28
Because he had fear and was turned away from all the wrong which he had done, life will certainly be his, death will not be his fate.
Ezekiel 18:29
But still the children of Israel say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O children of Israel, are my ways not equal? are not your ways unequal?
2 Chronicles 12:12
And when he made himself low, the wrath of the Lord was turned back from him, and complete destruction did not come on him, for there was still some good in Judah.
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Ezekiel 33:11
Say to them, By my life, says the Lord, I have no pleasure in the death of the evil-doer; it is more pleasing to me if he is turned from his way and has life: be turned, be turned from your evil ways; why are you looking for death, O children of Israel?
2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slow in keeping his word, as he seems to some, but he is waiting in mercy for you, not desiring the destruction of any, but that all may be turned from their evil ways.
1 Timothy 2:4
Whose desire is that all men may have salvation and come to the knowledge of what is true.
Lamentations 3:33
For he has no pleasure in troubling and causing grief to the children of men.
Isaiah 28:21
For the Lord will come up as on Mount Perazim, he will be moved to wrath as in the valley of Gibeon; so that he may do his work--strange is his work; and give effect to his act--unnatural is his act.
John 5:40
And still you have no desire to come to me so that you may have life.
Psalms 81:13
If only my people would give ear to me, walking in my ways!
Psalms 86:15
But you, O Lord, are a God full of pity and forgiveness, slow to get angry, great in mercy and wisdom.
Hosea 11:8
How may I give you up, O Ephraim? how may I be your saviour, O Israel? how may I make you like Admah? how may I do to you as I did to Zeboim? My heart is turned in me, it is soft with pity.
Micah 7:18
Who is a God like you, offering forgiveness for evil-doing and overlooking the sins of the rest of his heritage? he does not keep his wrath for ever, because his delight is in mercy.
Matthew 23:37
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her! Again and again would I have taken your children to myself as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, and you would not!
John 3:16
For God had such love for the world that he gave his only Son, so that whoever has faith in him may not come to destruction but have eternal life.
John 6:37
Whatever the Father gives to me will come to me; and I will not send away anyone who comes to me.
Romans 2:4
Or is it nothing to you that God had pity on you, waiting and putting up with you for so long, not seeing that in his pity God's desire is to give you a change of heart?
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Acts 3:19
So then, let your hearts be changed and be turned to God, so that your sins may be completely taken away, and times of blessing may come from the Lord;
Acts 2:38
And Peter said, Let your hearts be changed, every one of you, and have baptism in the name of Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will have the Holy Spirit given to you.
Acts 17:30
Those times when men had no knowledge were overlooked by God; but now he gives orders to all men in every place to undergo a change of heart:
Acts 26:20
But I went about, first to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, and through all the country of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, preaching a change of heart, so that they, being turned to God, might give, in their works, the fruits of a changed heart.
2 Timothy 2:25
Gently guiding those who go against the teaching; if by chance God may give them a change of heart and true knowledge,
Matthew 3:2
Saying, Let your hearts be turned from sin; for the kingdom of heaven is near.
Matthew 3:8
Let your change of heart be seen in your works:
Matthew 4:17
From that time Jesus went about preaching and saying, Let your hearts be turned from sin, for the kingdom of heaven is near.
Acts 20:21
Preaching to Jews and to Greeks the need for a turning of the heart to God, and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Ezekiel 14:6
For this cause say to the children of Israel, These are the words of the Lord: Come back and give up your false gods and let your faces be turned from your disgusting things.
Mark 6:12
And they went out, preaching the need for a change of heart in men.
Luke 13:3
I say to you, It is not so: but if your hearts are not changed, you will all come to the same end.
Luke 13:5
I say to you, It is not so: but if your hearts are not changed, you will all come to an end in the same way.
Luke 14:33
And so whoever is not ready to give up all he has may not be my disciple.
2 Corinthians 7:10
For the sorrow which God gives is the cause of salvation through a change of heart, in which there is no reason for grief: but the sorrow of the world is a cause of death.
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Ezekiel 36:26
And I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you: I will take away the heart of stone from your flesh, and give you a heart of flesh.
Psalms 51:12
Give me back the joy of your salvation; let a free spirit be my support.
Ezekiel 11:19
And I will give them a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in them; and I will take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh:
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2 Timothy 2:26
And so they may get themselves free from the net of the Evil One, being made the prisoners of the Lord's servant, for the purpose of God.
Matthew 7:13
Go in by the narrow door; for wide is the door and open is the way which goes to destruction, and great numbers go in by it.
Luke 13:24
Do your best to go in by the narrow door, for I say to you, A number will make the attempt to go in, but will not be able to do so.
Acts 2:40
And with more such words he gave his witness, offering them salvation and saying, Come out from this evil generation.
Acts 11:18
And hearing these things they said nothing more, but gave glory to God, saying, Then to the Gentiles as to us has God given a change of heart, so that they may have life.
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Ephesians 4:22
That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;
Colossians 3:8
But now it is right for you to put away all these things; wrath, passion, bad feeling, curses, unclean talk;
Colossians 3:9
Do not make false statements to one another; because you have put away the old man with all his doings,
James 1:21
For this reason, putting away all dirty behaviour and the overweight of evil, take into your souls without pride the word which, being planted there, is able to give you salvation.
1 Peter 2:1
So putting away all wrongdoing, and all tricks and deceits and envies and evil talk,
Isaiah 2:20
In that day men will put their images of silver and of gold, which they made for worship, in the keeping of the beasts of the dark places;
Isaiah 30:22
And you will make unclean what is covering your pictured images of silver, and the plating of your images of gold: you will send them away as an unclean thing, saying, Be gone!
Romans 13:12
The night is far gone, and the day is near: so let us put off the works of the dark, arming ourselves with light,
Ephesians 4:25
And so, putting away false words, let everyone say what is true to his neighbour: for we are parts one of another.
Hebrews 12:1
For this reason, as we are circled by so great a cloud of witnesses, putting off every weight, and the sin into which we come so readily, let us keep on running in the way which is marked out for us,
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Ezekiel 18:14
Now if he has a son who sees all his father's sins which he has done, and in fear does not do the same:
Ezekiel 18:15
Who has not taken the flesh with the blood for food, or given worship to the images of the children of Israel, and has not had connection with his neighbour's wife,
Ezekiel 18:16
Or done wrong to any, or taken anything from one in his debt, or taken goods by force, but has given food to him who was in need of it, and clothing to him who was without it;
Ezekiel 18:17
Who has kept his hand from evil-doing and has not taken interest or great profits, who has done my orders and been guided by my rules: he will certainly not be put to death for the evil-doing of his father; life will certainly be his.
Ezekiel 18:18
As for his father, because he was cruel, took goods by force, and did what is not good among his people, truly, death will overtake him in his evil-doing.
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Matthew 21:29
And he said in answer, I will not: but later, changing his decision, he went.
Matthew 21:31
Which of the two did his father's pleasure? They say, The first. Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, that tax-farmers and loose women are going into the kingdom of God before you.
Matthew 21:32
For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you had no faith in him, but the tax-farmers and the loose women had faith in him: and you, when you saw it, did not even have regret for your sins, so as to have faith in him.
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Romans 14:10
But you, why do you make yourself your brother's judge? or again, why have you no respect for your brother? because we will all have to take our place before God as our judge.
Romans 14:12
So every one of us will have to give an account of himself to God.
2 Corinthians 5:10
For we all have to come before Christ to be judged; so that every one of us may get his reward for the things done in the body, good or bad.
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1 John 5:16
If a man sees his brother doing a sin which is not bad enough for death, let him make a prayer to God, and God will give life to him whose sin was not bad enough for death. There is a sin whose punishment is death: I do not say that he may make such a request then.
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