Ezekiel 18:22
None of their sins will be held against them. Because they are now doing what's right, they will live.
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2 Chronicles 6:23listen from heaven, act and judge your servants. Pay back the guilty; vindicate and reward those who do right.
Psalms 19:11They also warn your servant. By keeping them I'm richly rewarded.
Psalms 32:1How happy are those whose wrongs are forgiven, whose sins are covered.
Psalms 103:12As far as the east is from the west is how far the Lord has taken our sins away from us.
Jeremiah 31:34No one will need to teach a neighbor or their brother, telling them, “You ought to know the Lord.” For everyone will know me, from the smallest to the greatest. I will forgive them when they do wrong, and I will forget about their sins.
Ezekiel 18:24But if someone who is living according to what's right stops and does wrong, doing the same offensive things as the wicked, will that person live? Of course not! In fact, all the good things they did previously will be forgotten. That person will die because of their betrayal of me and the sins they've committed.
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 →