Ezekiel 18:5

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—

But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

Yahweh will take away from you all sickness; and he will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know, on you, but will lay them on all those who hate you.

who forgives all your sins, who heals all your diseases,

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

There was no king like him before him, who turned to Yahweh with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; and there was none like him who arose after him.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you today, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

You shall serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you.

Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

Tell the righteous “Good!” For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.

but this thing I commanded them, saying, ‘Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. Walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’

Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he will save his soul alive.

If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.

Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him, and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.

There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

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.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

“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.

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.

I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering.They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.

in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.

I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves. I have broken the bars of your yoke, and made you walk upright.

You shall keep his statutes and his commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for all time.

Yahweh will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with the tumors, with the scurvy, and with the itch, of which you can not be healed.

He will bring on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they will cling to you.

For I have kept Yahweh’s ways, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

Open to me the gates of righteousness. I will enter into them. I will give thanks to Yah.

Take away the wicked from the king’s presence, and his throne will be established in righteousness.

The king by justice makes the land stable, but he who takes bribes tears it down.

Happy are you, land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds,” says Yahweh; “because they have called you an outcast, saying, ‘It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.’ ”

For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.

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

but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

“ ‘If you walk in my statutes and keep my commandments, and do them,

You shall not eat it, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do that which is right in Yahweh’s eyes.

This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and walked in all the way of David his father, and didn’t turn away to the right hand or to the left.

I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.

Blessed are those who keep justice. Blessed is one who does what is right at all times.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.

‘Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.

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.

“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.

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

“It shall be eighteen thousand reeds around: and the name of the city from that day shall be, ‘Yahweh is there.’

“Come! Let’s return to Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.

Israel, return to Yahweh your God; for you have fallen because of your sin.

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death,

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.

These things I have written to you concerning those who would lead you astray.

And by this we know that we are of the truth, and persuade our hearts before him,

Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God.

“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 I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”

You shall do that which is right and good in Yahweh’s sight, that it may be well with you and that you may go in and possess the good land which Yahweh swore to your fathers,

You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may live and inherit the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.

“Should you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn’t your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.

Again, when I say to the wicked, “You will surely die;” if he turns from his sin, and does that which is lawful and right;

This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.

If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.

Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.

He said, “If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you.”