Ezekiel 33:11

Catholic Public Domain Version

Say to them: As I live, says the Lord God, I do not desire the death of the impious, but that the impious should convert from his way and live. Be converted, be converted from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:14

We are all dying, and we are all like waters that flow into the ground and do not return. God does not will to lose a soul. Instead, he renews his efforts, thinking that what has been rejected might not perish altogether.

Job 37:23

We are not worthy to be able to find him. Great in strength, great in judgment, great in justice: he is indescribable.

Proverbs 1:23

Be converted by my correction. Lo, I will offer my spirit to you, and I will reveal my words to you.

Proverbs 8:36

But he who sins against me will wound his own soul. All who hate me love death."

Isaiah 21:12

The watchman said: "Morning approaches with the night. If you are seeking: seek, and convert, and approach."

Isaiah 49:18

Lift up your eyes all around, and see: all these have been gathered together; they have come to you. As I live, says the Lord, you shall be clothed with all these things, as if with an ornament. And like a bride, you shall wrap these things all around you.

Jeremiah 22:24

As I live, says the Lord, if Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, were a ring on my right hand, I would remove him from there.

Jeremiah 3:12

Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and you shall say: Return, O apostate Israel, says the Lord. For I will not avert my face from you. For I am holy, says the Lord, and I will not be angry forever.

Jeremiah 3:22

"Convert, O rebellious sons! And I will heal your rebelliousness." "Behold, we are returning to you. For you are the Lord our God!

Jeremiah 44:7

And now, thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Why do you commit this great evil against your own souls, so that, among you, man and woman, child and infant would pass away from the midst of Judah, and so that no remnant at all would be left behind of you?

Jeremiah 44:8

For you have provoked me by the works of your hands, by sacrificing to strange gods in the land of Egypt, into which you have entered in order to live there, and so that you would perish and become a curse and a disgrace before all the nations of the earth.

Jeremiah 46:18

As I live, says the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts, just as Tabor is among the mountains, and just as Carmel is beside the sea, so will he come.

Lamentations 3:33

CAPH. For he has not humiliated from his heart, nor has he thrown aside the sons of men,

Ezekiel 14:6

Because of this, say to the house of Israel: Thus says the Lord God: Be converted, and withdraw from your idols, and turn your faces away from all your abominations.

Ezekiel 16:48

As I live, says the Lord God, your sister Sodom herself, and her daughters, have not done as you and your daughters have done.

Ezekiel 18:23

How could it be my will that an impious man should die, says the Lord God, and not that he should be converted from his ways and live?

Ezekiel 5:11

Therefore, as I myself live says the Lord God, because you have violated my sanctuary with all your offenses and with all your abominations, I also will break into pieces, and my eye will not be lenient, and I will not take pity.

Daniel 9:13

Just as it has been written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come upon us, and we did not entreat your face, O Lord our God, so that we might turn back from our iniquities and consider your truth.

Hosea 11:8

How will I provide for you, Ephraim; how will I protect you, Israel? How will I provide for you as for Adam; will I set you like Zeboiim? My heart has changed within me; together with my regret, it has been stirred up.

Hosea 14:1

Let Samaria perish, because she has urged her God towards bitterness. Let them perish by the sword, let their little ones be thrown down, and let their pregnant women be cut in two.

Joel 2:12

Now, therefore, the Lord says: "Be converted to me with your whole heart, in fasting and weeping and mourning."

Zephaniah 2:9

Because of this, as I live, says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab will be like Sodom, and the sons of Ammon like Gomorrah, like the dryness of thorns, and piles of salt, and a desert, all the way to eternity. The remnant of my people will despoil them, and the residue of my nation will possess them.

Numbers 14:21

Also, as I live, the entire world shall be filled with the glory of the Lord.

Numbers 14:28

Therefore, say to them: As I live, says the Lord, as you spoke in my hearing, so will I do to you.

Acts 26:20

But I preached, first to those who are at Damascus and at Jerusalem, and then to the entire region of Judea, and to the Gentiles, so that they would repent and convert to God, doing the works that are worthy of repentance.

Acts 3:19

Therefore, repent and be converted, so that your sins may be wiped away.

Romans 14:11

For it is written: "As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bend to me, and every tongue shall confess to God."

1 Timothy 2:4

who wants all men to be saved and to arrive at an acknowledgment of the truth.

2 Peter 3:9

The Lord is not delaying his promise, as some imagine, but he does act patiently for your sake, not wanting anyone to perish, but wanting all to be turned back to penance.