Ezekiel 18:31
Cast away from you all your transgressions wherewith ye have transgressed, and make you a new heart and a new spirit: why then will ye die, 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 that sinneth against me doeth violence to his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
Isaiah 30:22And ye shall defile the silver covering of your graven images, and the gold overlaying of your molten images; thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth: Out! shalt thou say unto it.
Jeremiah 4:4Circumcise yourselves for Jehovah, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my fury come forth like fire and burn, and there be none to quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Jeremiah 27:15For I have not sent them, saith Jehovah, yet they prophesy falsely in my name; in order that I should drive you out, and that ye should perish, ye, and the prophets who prophesy unto 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 →