The Lord commanded you not to eat or drink anything in this place. But you came back and ate and drank. So your body will not be buried in your family grave.”
Ezekiel 18:11 - Easy To Read Version The son might do any of these bad things. He might go to the mountains and share in foods offered to false gods. That evil son might do the sin of adultery with his neighbor’s wife. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 and that doeth not any of those duties, but even hath eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbour's wife, Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And leaves undone all of the duties [of a righteous man], and has even eaten [the food set before idols] on the mountains and defiled his neighbor's wife, American Standard Version (1901) and that doeth not any of those duties, but even hath eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbor’s wife, Common English Bible even though his parents didn’t do any of them. He eats on the mountains, defiles his neighbor’s wife, Catholic Public Domain Version (even though he himself does not do any of these things,) and who eats upon the mountains, and who defiles the wife of his neighbor, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Though he doth not all these things, but that eateth upon the mountains and that defileth his neighbour's wife: |
The Lord commanded you not to eat or drink anything in this place. But you came back and ate and drank. So your body will not be buried in your family grave.”
But the man of God [164] said to the king, “I will not go home with you, even if you give me half of your kingdom! I will not eat or drink anything in this place.
“But that good person might have a son that does not do any of those good things. The son might steal things and kill people.
That good son does not go to the mountains and share in foods offered to false gods. He does not pray to those filthy idols in Israel. He does not do the sin of adultery with his neighbor’s wife.
One man does that terrible sin against his own neighbor’s wife. Another man has sex with his own daughter-in-law and makes her unclean. {\cf2\super [171]} And another man rapes his father’s daughter—his very own sister.
But Jesus said, “The people that hear the teaching of God and obey it—they are the people that are truly happy!”
And do the things that you learned and received from me. Do the things I told you and the things you saw me do. And the God who gives peace will be with you.
It is the same with faith. If faith does nothing, then that faith is dead, because it is alone.
And God gives us the things we ask for. We receive these things because we obey God’s commands and we do the things that please God.
“Those people who washed their robes {\cf2\super [174]} will be blessed. They will have the right to \{eat the food from\} the tree of life. They can go through the gates into the city.