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Ezekiel 18:32 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies,” says the Lord GOD. “Therefore turn yourselves, and live! "
Ezekiel 18:32
Verse in Context
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30 “Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways,” says the Lord GOD. “Return, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions, so iniquity will not be your ruin.
31 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?
32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies,” says the Lord GOD. “Therefore turn yourselves, and live!
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Ezekiel 18:1
"The LORD’s word came to me again, saying,"
Ezekiel 18:2
"“What do you mean, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge’?"
Ezekiel 18:3
"“As I live,” says the Lord GOD, “you shall not use this proverb any more in Israel."
Ezekiel 18:4
"Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine. The soul who sins, he shall die."
Ezekiel 18:5
"“But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful and right,"
Ezekiel 18:6
"and has not eaten on the mountains, hasn’t lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hasn’t defiled his neighbor’s wife, hasn’t come near a woman in her impurity,"
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