Ezekiel 18:9
Good News Translation
Such a man obeys my commands and carefully keeps my laws. He is righteous, and he will live," says the Sovereign LORD.

New Revised Standard Version
follows my statutes, and is careful to observe my ordinances, acting faithfully—such a one is righteous; he shall surely live, says the Lord GOD.

Contemporary English Version
and faithfully obeys my laws and teachings. This man is good, and I promise he will live.

New American Bible
if he walks by my statutes and is careful to observe my ordinances, that man is just—he shall surely live—oracle of the Lord GOD.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Hath walked in my commandments, and kept my judgments, to do truth: he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hath walked in my commandments, and kept my judgments, to do truth: he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord God.

walked

Ezekiel 18:17 That hath turned away his hand from injuring the poor, hath not taken usury and increase, but hath executed my judgments, and hath walked in my commandments: this man shall not die for the iniquity of his father, but living he shall live.

Ezekiel 20:13 But the house of Israel provoked me in the desert: they walked not in my statutes, and they cast away my judgments, which if a man do he shall live in them: and they grievously violated my sabbaths. I said therefore that I would pour out my indignation upon them in the desert, and would consume them.

Ezekiel 33:15 And if that wicked man restore the pledge, and render what he had robbed, and walk in the commandments of life, and do no unjust thing: he shall surely live, and shall not die.

Ezekiel 36:27 And I will put my spirit in the midst of you: and I will cause you to walk in my commandments, and to keep my judgments, and do them.

Ezekiel 37:24 And my servant David shall be king over them, and they shall have one shepherd: they shall walk in my judgments, and shall keep my commandments, and shall do them.

Deuteronomy 4:1 And now, O Israel, hear the commandments and judgments which I teach thee: that doing them, thou mayst live, and entering in mayst possess the land which the Lord the God of your fathers will give you.

Deuteronomy 5:1 And Moses called all Israel, and said to them: Hear, O Israel, the ceremonies and judgments, which I speak in your ears this day: learn them, and fulfil them in work.

Deuteronomy 6:1,2 These are the precepts, and ceremonies, and judgments, which the Lord your God commanded that I should teach you, and that you should do them in the land into which you pass over to possess it: . . .

Deuteronomy 10:12,13 And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but that thou fear the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways, and love him, and serve the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul: . . .

Deuteronomy 11:1 Therefore love the Lord thy God and observe his precepts and ceremonies, his judgments and commandments at all times.

Nehemiah 9:13,14 Thou camest down also to mount Sinai, and didst speak with them from heaven, and thou gavest them right judgments, and the law of truth, ceremonies, and good precepts. . . .

Psalm 19:7-11 The law of the Lord is unspotted, converting souls: the testimony of the Lord is faithful, giving wisdom to little ones. . . .

Psalm 105:44,45 And he gave them the lands of the Gentiles: and they possessed the labours of the people: . . .

Psalm 119:1-6 Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord. . . .

Luke 1:6 And they were both just before God, walking in all the commandments and justifications of the Lord without blame.

John 14:21 He that hath my commandments and keepeth them; he it is that loveth me. And he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father: and I will love him and will manifest myself to him.

Acts 24:16 And herein do I endeavour to have always a conscience without offence, towards God and towards men.

James 1:22-25 But be ye doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. . . .

is just

Psalm 24:4-6 The innocent in hands, and clean of heart, who hath not taken his soul in vain, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbour. . . .

Habakkuk 2:4 Behold, he that is unbelieving, his soul shall not be right in himself: but the just shall live in his faith.

Romans 1:17 For the justice of God is revealed therein, from faith unto faith, as it is written: The just man liveth by faith.

James 2:18-26 But some man will say: Thou hast faith, and I have works. Shew me thy faith without works; and I will shew thee, by works, my faith. . . .

1 John 2:29 If you know that he is just, know ye, that every one also who doth justice is born of him.

1 John 3:7 Little children, let no man deceive you. He that doth justice is just, even as he is just.

he shall

Ezekiel 20:11 And I gave them my statutes, and I shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them.

Amos 5:4,14,24 For thus saith the Lord to the house of Israel: Seek ye me, and you shall live. . . .

Luke 10:27-29 He answering, said: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart and with thy whole soul and with all thy strength and with all thy mind: and thy neighbour as thyself. . . .

Context
A Proverb about Israel
8Hath not lent upon usury, nor taken any increase: hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, and hath executed true judgment between man and man: 9Hath walked in my commandments, and kept my judgments, to do truth: he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord God.10And if he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that hath done some one of these things:…
Cross References
Romans 1:17
For the justice of God is revealed therein, from faith unto faith, as it is written: The just man liveth by faith.

Romans 8:1
There is now therefore no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh.

Leviticus 18:5
Keep my laws and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them, I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 11:12
And you shall know that I am the Lord: because you have not walked in my commandments, and have not done my judgments, but you have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you.

Ezekiel 18:10
And if he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that hath done some one of these things:

Ezekiel 18:19
And you say: Why hath not the son borne the iniquity of his father? Verily, because the son hath wrought judgment and justice, hath kept all my commandments, and done them, living, he shall live.

Amos 5:4
For thus saith the Lord to the house of Israel: Seek ye me, and you shall live.

Habakkuk 2:4
Behold, he that is unbelieving, his soul shall not be right in himself: but the just shall live in his faith.

Ezekiel 18:8
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