Ezekiel 18:28

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

A man’s steps are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.

So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;

for whom Yahweh loves, he corrects, even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.

if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.

that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”

if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

“Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Return, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity will not be your ruin.

and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.

“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Oh that there were such a heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them and with their children forever!

He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength. He goes out to meet the armed men.

but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.

lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver.

The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

He will redeem Israel from all their sins.

She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t know it.

Oh that you had listened to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

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?

It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I intend to do to them; that they may each return from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.”

Her filthiness was in her skirts. She didn’t remember her latter end. Therefore she has come down astoundingly. She has no comforter. “See, Yahweh, my affliction; for the enemy has magnified himself.”

I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;

then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet, and doesn’t heed the warning, if the sword comes, and takes him away, his blood will be on his own head.

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

Jesus therefore said to them again, “Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.”

When Peter had come to himself, he said, “Now I truly know that the Lord has sent out his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from everything the Jewish people were expecting.”

When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!”

Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers,

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.

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;

For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

and having a great priest over God’s house,

It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

“Go inquire of Yahweh for me, and for those who are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found; for great is Yahweh’s wrath that is poured out on us, because our fathers have not kept Yahweh’s word, to do according to all that is written in this book.”

So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,

Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God.

Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!

Yahweh has sworn, and will not change his mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination to Yahweh, but those whose ways are blameless are his delight.

Tell them, ‘ “As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, house of Israel?” ’

When the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does that which is lawful and right, he will live by it.

I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger!

If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which when translated, means Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and acts of mercy which she did.

whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;

But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one.

Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things.

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,

It shall happen, when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations where Yahweh your God has driven you,

Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

yet if they repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, ‘We have sinned, and have done perversely; we have dealt wickedly;’

“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.

Then I wouldn’t be disappointed, when I consider all of your commandments.

I considered my ways, and turned my steps to your statutes.

Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.

A wicked man hardens his face; but as for the upright, he establishes his ways.

“Remember this, and show yourselves men. Bring it to mind again, you transgressors.

I listened and heard, but they didn’t say what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, saying, “What have I done?” Everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.

“Therefore, you son of man, prepare your stuff for moving, and move by day in their sight. You shall move from your place to another place in their sight. It may be they will consider, though they are a rebellious house.

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.

“Now, behold, if he fathers a son, who sees all his father’s sins, which he has done, and fears, and does not such like;

who has withdrawn his hand from the poor, who hasn’t received interest or increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father. He shall surely live.

“But if the wicked turns from all his sins that he has committed, and keeps all my statutes, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live. He shall not die.

Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel?

“You, son of man, tell the children of your people, ‘The righteousness of the righteous will not deliver him in the day of his disobedience. And as for the wickedness of the wicked, he will not fall by it in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither will he who is righteous be able to live by it in the day that he sins.

Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways.

Why do you see the speck of chaff that is in your brother’s eye, but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye?

Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.