Ezekiel 18:32
Good News Translation
I do not want anyone to die," says the Sovereign LORD. "Turn away from your sins and live."

New Revised Standard Version
For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone, says the Lord GOD. Turn, then, and live.

Contemporary English Version
I, the LORD God, don't want to see that happen to anyone. So stop sinning and live!

New American Bible
For I find no pleasure in the death of anyone who dies—oracle of the Lord GOD. Turn back and live!

Douay-Rheims Bible
For I desire not the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God, return ye and live.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For I desire not the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God, return ye and live.

I have

Ezekiel 18:23 Is it my will that a sinner should die, saith the Lord God, and not that he should be converted from his ways, and live?

Lamentations 3:33 Caph. For he hath not willingly afflicted, nor cast off the children of men.

2 Peter 3:9 The Lord delayeth not his promise, as some imagine, but dealeth patiently for your sake, not willing that any should perish, but that all should return to penance,

yourselves.

Ezekiel 18:30 Therefore will I judge every man according to his ways, O house of Israel, saith the Lord God. Be converted, and do penance for all your iniquities: and iniquity shall not be your ruin.

Context
The Soul who Sins will Die
31Cast away from you all your transgressions, by which you have transgressed, and make to yourselves a new heart, and a new spirit: and why will you die, O house of Israel? 32For I desire not the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God, return ye and live.
Cross References
1 Timothy 2:4
Who will have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Job 37:23
We cannot find him worthily: he is great in strength, and in judgment, and in justice, and he is ineffable.

Isaiah 31:6
Return as you had deeply revolted, O children of Israel.

Ezekiel 18:23
Is it my will that a sinner should die, saith the Lord God, and not that he should be converted from his ways, and live?

Ezekiel 33:11
Say to them: As I live, saith the Lord God, I desire not the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way, and live. Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways: and why will you die, O house of Israel?

Ezekiel 18:31
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