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.
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2 Chronicles 6:23Then let your ear be open in heaven, and be the judge of your servants, giving punishment to the wrongdoer, so that his sin may come on his head; and, by your decision, keeping from evil him who has done no wrong.
Psalms 19:11\19:10\More to be desired are they than gold, even than much shining gold; sweeter than the dropping honey.
Psalms 32:1Of David. Maschil. Happy is he who has forgiveness for his wrongdoing, and whose sin is covered.
Psalms 103:12As far as the east is from the west, so far has he put our sins from us.
Jeremiah 31:34And no longer will they be teaching every man his neighbour and every man his brother, saying, Get knowledge of the Lord: for they will all have knowledge of me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord: for they will have my forgiveness for their evil-doing, and their sin will go from my memory for ever.
Ezekiel 18:24But 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.
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 18:22-30
Encouragement to Repentance. ( b. c. 593.) 21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. 22 All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live. 23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord God : and not that he should return from his ways, and live? 24 But when the… Read the whole commentary →