Ezekiel 18:24

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake.

Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.

“Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he will die. Because you have not given him warning, he will die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered; but I will require his blood at your hand.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you; for now Yahweh would have established your kingdom on Israel forever.

“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

You will seek me, and won’t find me. You can’t come where I am.”

Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?

See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,

When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away.

Nevertheless, hold that which you have firmly until I come.

But you be strong, and don’t let your hands be slack; for your work will be rewarded.”

He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the vision of God; and as long as he sought Yahweh, God made him prosper.

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

Yes, may you see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel.

who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths,

But he answered, “Every plant which my heavenly Father didn’t plant will be uprooted.

But he who endures to the end will be saved.

‘For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.

Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still.”

He who testifies these things says, “Yes, I come quickly.” Amen! Yes, come, Lord Jesus.

Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death; for Samuel mourned for Saul: and Yahweh grieved that he had made Saul king over Israel.

because they turned away from following him, and wouldn’t pay attention to any of his ways,

Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies.

As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.

Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.

They don’t know the way of peace; and there is no justice in their ways. They have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever goes in them doesn’t know peace.

“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.

When I tell the righteous that he will surely live; if he trusts in his righteousness, and commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered; but he will die in his iniquity that he has committed.

When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he will even die therein.

“As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field, because there was no shepherd. My shepherds didn’t search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn’t feed my sheep.”

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.

Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken.

As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on God’s Israel.

that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written in it, for the time is at hand.

“I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.

“Behold, I come quickly. Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.”

“Behold, I come quickly. My reward is with me, to repay to each man according to his work.

“The whole congregation of Yahweh says, ‘What trespass is this that you have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away today from following Yahweh, in that you have built yourselves an altar, to rebel today against Yahweh?

“It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments.” Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good with which I said I would benefit them.

but you turned and profaned my name, and every man caused his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom you had let go free at their pleasure, to return. You brought them into subjection, to be to you for servants and for handmaids.’ ”

None of his sins that he has committed will be remembered against him. He has done that which is lawful and right. He will surely live.

So he listened to them in this matter, and tested them for ten days.

He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” just as it is written.

Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

“If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and the sinner?”

Joash did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes all the days of Jehoiada the priest.

The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the departed spirits.

None of his transgressions that he has committed will be remembered against him. In his righteousness that he has done, he shall live.

When the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies therein; in his iniquity that he has done he shall die.

But if the watchman sees the sword come, and doesn’t blow the trumpet, and the people aren’t warned, and the sword comes, and takes any person from among them; he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.’

I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”

Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?

But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.

He shall separate to Yahweh the days of his separation, and shall bring a male lamb a year old for a trespass offering; but the former days shall be void, because his separation was defiled.

‘Cursed is he who doesn’t uphold the words of this law by doing them.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ ”

“But if you do at all go back, and hold fast to the remnant of these nations, even these who remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you;

If you forsake Yahweh, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after he has done you good.”

He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.

But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.

The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?

has lent with interest, and has taken increase from the poor; shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations. He shall surely die. His blood will be on him.

As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother, and did that which is not good among his people, behold, he will die in his iniquity.

“Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Moreover, in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.

They will eat, and not have enough. They will play the prostitute, and will not increase; because they have abandoned giving to Yahweh.

You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth:

those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

Jesus said therefore again to them, “I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can’t come.”

See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?

They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.

These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.