Ezekiel 18:26

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,

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.

When I tell the wicked, ‘You will surely die;’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; that wicked man will die in his iniquity; but I will require his blood at your hand.

They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.

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.

Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under the sky.

But I say, didn’t they hear? Yes, most certainly, “Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

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

“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.

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 way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.

Therefore Yahweh says, “Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people. The fathers and the sons together will stumble against them. The neighbor and his friend will perish.”

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.’ ”

“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.

He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.

For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.

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

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.

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

His going out is from the end of the heavens, his circuit to its ends. There is nothing hidden from its heat.

With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.

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

He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a stumbling stone and a rock that makes them fall. For the people of Jerusalem, he will be a trap and a snare.

“Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face. Should I be inquired of at all by them?

and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

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

“But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, should he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done will be remembered. In his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them 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.’

When I tell the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you will surely die,’ and you don’t speak to warn the wicked from his way; that wicked man will die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at your hand.

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

Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

The Good News must first be preached to all the nations.

“The lord said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.

but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn’t fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers.”

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.”

Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.

If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”

For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?

Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.

who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

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

and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ,

because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News

which has come to you, even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth,

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

of which I was made a servant according to the stewardship of God which was given me toward you to fulfill the word of God,

rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don’t tell the truth.

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.

you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams; for Yahweh your God is testing you, to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

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

Therefore Yahweh’s anger burned against Amaziah, and he sent to him a prophet, who said to him, “Why have you sought after the gods of the people, which have not delivered their own people out of your hand?”

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness,

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.

The soul who sins, he shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.

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

and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, “Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.

Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance.

but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,

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

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.