Ezekiel 18:3

Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let your glory be above all the earth!

Tell them, ‘As I live, says Yahweh, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so I will do to you.

“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.

For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of Yahweh’s glory, as the waters cover the sea.

Blessed be his glorious name forever! Let the whole earth be filled with his glory! Amen and amen.

Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.

For I lift up my hand to heaven and declare, as I live forever,

So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.

But the king shall rejoice in God. Everyone who swears by him will praise him, for the mouth of those who speak lies shall be silenced.

The upright will see it, and be glad. All the wicked will shut their mouths.

Lift up your eyes all around, and see: all these gather themselves together, and come to you. As I live,” says Yahweh, “you shall surely clothe yourself with them all as with an ornament, and dress yourself with them, like a bride.

Now is the end on you, and I will send my anger on you, and will judge you according to your ways. I will bring on you all your abominations.

“Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Return, and turn yourselves from your idols! Turn away your faces from all your abominations.

that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

I, Yahweh, have spoken it. It will happen, and I will do it. I won’t go back. I won’t spare. I won’t repent. According to your ways, and according to your doings, they will judge you,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

Yet you say, “The way of the Lord is not fair.” House of Israel, I will judge every one of you after his ways.’ ”

Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of Yahweh comes, for it is close at hand:

The great day of Yahweh is near. It is near, and hurries greatly, the voice of the day of Yahweh. The mighty man cries there bitterly.

I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.

But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

“As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter

When he is judged, let him come out guilty. Let his prayer be turned into sin.

For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

saying, “Return now everyone from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that Yahweh has given to you and to your fathers, from of old and even forever more.

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?” ’

I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries. I judged them according to their way and according to their deeds.

“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”

Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.

They went out and preached that people should repent.

He said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read it?”

He said to him, “You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live.”

I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.”

But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:”

What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.

For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”

Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don’t you listen to the law?

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.

He said to me, “Don’t seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand.

The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

Then Sarah denied it, saying, “I didn’t laugh,” for she was afraid. He said, “No, but you did laugh.”

Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “I have sinned this time. Yahweh is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.

In the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

but in very deed—as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with Yahweh’s glory—

He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked will be put to silence in darkness; for no man will prevail by strength.

Samuel said, “Then what does this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the cattle which I hear mean?”

David said to him, “Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have slain Yahweh’s anointed.’ ”

Absalom answered Joab, “Behold, I sent to you, saying, ‘Come here, that I may send you to the king, to say, “Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still. Now therefore let me see the king’s face, and if there is iniquity in me, let him kill me.” ’ ”

If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;

If a man doesn’t repent, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent and strung his bow.

The Lord will laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming.

Also to you, Lord, belongs loving kindness, for you reward every man according to his work.

The heavens declare his righteousness. All the peoples have seen his glory.

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

I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.”

One called to another, and said, “Holy, holy, holy, is Yahweh of Armies! The whole earth is full of his glory!”

Now therefore don’t be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, on the whole earth.

“As I live,” says Yahweh, “though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet on my right hand, I would still pluck you from there.

But if they had stood in my council, then they would have caused my people to hear my words, and would have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.

“The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hurries fast.

Therefore as I live,’ says the Lord Yahweh, ‘surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish you. My eye won’t spare, and I will have no pity.

“You, son of man, the Lord Yahweh says to the land of Israel, ‘An end! The end has come on the four corners of the land.

The king will mourn, and the prince will be clothed with desolation. The hands of the people of the land will be troubled. I will do to them after their way, and according to their own judgments I will judge them. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’ ”

Tell them therefore, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “I will make this proverb to cease, and they will no more use it as a proverb in Israel;” ’ but tell them, ‘ “The days are at hand, and the fulfillment of every vision.

For I am Yahweh. I will speak, and the word that I speak will be performed. It will be no more deferred; for in your days, rebellious house, I will speak the word, and will perform it,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

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.

“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.

“Therefore the Lord Yahweh says to them: ‘Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.

He said, “Amos, what do you see?” I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then Yahweh said to me, “The end has come on my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.

Therefore as I live, says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them.

“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

Most certainly I tell you, this generation will not pass away, until all these things are accomplished.

They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity, that they may be without excuse.

Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the revelations of God.

May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “that you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

For it is written, “ ‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘to me every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.’ ”

that no flesh should boast before God.

Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.