Ezekiel 33:18 “If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity,…”

Ezekiel 33:18

If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he will die for it.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby.

World English Bible

When the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he will even die therein.

American Standard Version

When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die therein.

Geneva Bible 1599

When the righteous turneth from his righteousnesse, and committeth iniquitie, he shall euen die thereby.

Darby Translation

When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and doeth what is wrong, then he shall die therein.

Young's Literal Translation

In the turning back of the righteous from his righteousness, And he hath done perversity — he dieth for it.

Bible in Basic English

When the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, death will overtake him in it.

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Cross references

“When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby.”

2 Peter 2:20–22 Hebrews 10:38 Ezekiel 33:12 Ezekiel 33:13 Ezekiel 18:26 Ezekiel 18:27

2 Peter 2:20–22 · BSB

If indeed they have escaped the corruption of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, only to be entangled and overcome by it again, their final condition is worse than it was at first.

Hebrews 10:38 · BSB

But My righteous one will live by faith; and if he shrinks back, I will take no pleasure in him.”

Ezekiel 33:12 · BSB

Therefore, son of man, say to your people: ‘The righteousness of the righteous man will not deliver him in the day of his transgression; neither will the wickedness of the wicked man cause him to stumble on the day he tu…

Ezekiel 33:13 · BSB

If I tell the righteous man that he will surely live, but he then trusts in his righteousness and commits iniquity, then none of his righteous works will be remembered; he will die because of the iniquity he has committe…

Ezekiel 18:26 · BSB

If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity, he will die for this. He will die because of the iniquity he has committed.

Ezekiel 18:27 · BSB

But if a wicked man turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will save his life.

Also

Ezekiel 3:20

Ezekiel 3:20 · BSB

Now if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I put a stumbling block before him, he will die. If you did not warn him, he will die in his sin, and the righteous acts he did will not be re…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

17Yet your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But it is their way that is not just.

19But if a wicked man turns from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he will live because of this.

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