Ezekiel 18:31
Cast away from you all your transgressions, by which ye have transgressed, and make you a new heart and a new spirit. For why will ye die, O house of Israel?
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Deuteronomy 30:15See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil,
Psalms 34:14Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.
Proverbs 8:36But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.
Isaiah 30:22And ye shall defile the overlaying of thy graven images of silver, and the plating of thy molten images of gold. Thou shall cast them away as an unclean thing. Thou shall say to it, Get thee away.
Jeremiah 4:4Circumcise yourselves to LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Jeremiah 27:15For I have not sent them, says LORD, but they prophesy falsely in my name, that I may drive you out, and that ye may perish, ye, and the prophets who prophesy to you.
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 18:31-32
Warning against Apostasy. ( b. c. 593.) 30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord God . Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. 31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? 32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God : wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye. We… Read the whole commentary →