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Brenton's Septuagint

Ezekiel 18:5

But the man who shall be just, who executes judgment and righteousness,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Adultery;   Beneficence;   Children;   Integrity;   Judgment;   Pawn;   Responsibility;   Righteous;   Righteousness;   Wicked (People);   Works;   Scofield Reference Index - Righteousness;   The Topic Concordance - Charity;   Execution;   Idolatry;   Iniquity;   Judges;   Justice;   Life;   Obedience;   Oppression;   Profit;   Usury;   Violence;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Repentance;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Death;   Ezekiel;   Life;   Loan;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Death;   Ethics;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Righteousness;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Lead;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Lawful;   Right;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Atonement;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“Suppose a man is righteous and does what is just and right:
Hebrew Names Version
But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful and right,
King James Version
But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,
English Standard Version
"If a man is righteous and does what is just and right—
New American Standard Bible
"But if a man is righteous and practices justice and righteousness,
New Century Version
"Suppose a person is good and does what is fair and right.
Amplified Bible
"But if a man is righteous (keeps the law) and practices justice and righteousness,
World English Bible
But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful and right,
Geneva Bible (1587)
But if a man be iust, and doe that which is lawfull, and right,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"But if a man is righteous and practices justice and righteousness,
Legacy Standard Bible
"But if a man is righteous and does justice and righteousness,
Berean Standard Bible
Now suppose a man is righteous and does what is just and right:
Contemporary English Version
Suppose there is a truly good man who always does what is fair and right.
Complete Jewish Bible
"Consider someone who is righteous, who does what is lawful and right.
Darby Translation
And if a man be righteous, and do judgment and justice:
Easy-to-Read Version
"A person who is good will live! He is fair and does what is right.
George Lamsa Translation
But if a man be righteous and do justice and righteousness,
Good News Translation
"Suppose there is a truly good man, righteous and honest.
Lexham English Bible
And if a man is righteous and does justice and righteousness,
Literal Translation
But a man that is righteous and does what is just and right,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yf a man be godly, and do the thinge that is equall & right,
American Standard Version
But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,
Bible in Basic English
But if a man is upright, living rightly and doing righteousness,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,
King James Version (1611)
But if a man be iust, and do that which is lawfull and right:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But if a man be iust, and do that which is lawfull and right:
English Revised Version
But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And if a man is iust, and doith doom and riytfulnesse,
Update Bible Version
But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful and right,
Webster's Bible Translation
But if a man is just, and doeth that which is lawful and right,
New English Translation
"Suppose a man is righteous. He practices what is just and right,
New King James Version
But if a man is just And does what is lawful and right;
New Living Translation
"Suppose a certain man is righteous and does what is just and right.
New Life Bible
But if a man is right and good and does what is right and good,
New Revised Standard
If a man is righteous and does what is lawful and right—
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But when, any man, shall be righteous, and do justice and righteousness:
Douay-Rheims Bible
And if a man be just, and do judgment and justice,
Revised Standard Version
"If a man is righteous and does what is lawful and right--
Young's Literal Translation
And a man, when he is righteous, And hath done judgment and righteousness,
THE MESSAGE
"Imagine a person who lives well, treating others fairly, keeping good relationships— doesn't eat at the pagan shrines, doesn't worship the idols so popular in Israel, doesn't seduce a neighbor's spouse, doesn't indulge in casual sex, doesn't bully anyone, doesn't pile up bad debts, doesn't steal, doesn't refuse food to the hungry, doesn't refuse clothing to the ill-clad, doesn't exploit the poor, doesn't live by impulse and greed, doesn't treat one person better than another, But lives by my statutes and faithfully honors and obeys my laws. This person who lives upright and well shall live a full and true life. Decree of God , the Master.

Contextual Overview

1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, what mean ye by this parable among the children of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten unripe grapes, and the children’s teeth have been set on edge? 3 As I live, saith the Lord, surely this parable shall no more be spoken in Israel. 4 For all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son, they are mine: the soul that sins, it shall die. 5 But the man who shall be just, who executes judgment and righteousness, 6 who shall not eat upon the mountains, and shall not at all lift up his eyes to the devices of the house of Israel, and shall not defile his neighbor’s wife, and shall not draw nigh to her that is removed, 7 and shall not oppress any man, but shall return the pledge of the debtor, and shall be guilty of no plunder, shall give his bread to the hungry, and clothe the naked; 8 and shall not lend his money upon usury, and shall not receive usurious increase, and shall turn back his hand from injustice, shall execute righteous judgement between a man and his neighbor, 9 and has walked in my commandments and kept mine ordinances, to do them; he is righteous, he shall surely live, saith the Lord.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

if: Psalms 15:2-5, Psalms 24:4-6, Matthew 7:21-27, Romans 2:7-10, James 1:22-25, James 2:14-26, 1 John 2:3, 1 John 2:29, 1 John 3:7, 1 John 5:2-5, Revelation 22:14

that: etc. Heb. judgment and justice, Ezekiel 33:14, Genesis 18:19, Proverbs 21:3, Jeremiah 22:15

Reciprocal: Exodus 15:26 - and wilt Deuteronomy 6:18 - shalt do Deuteronomy 16:20 - live Ezekiel 18:21 - and do

Cross-References

Genesis 19:8
But I have two daughters, who have not known a man. I will bring them out to you, and do ye use them as it may please you, only do not injury to these men, to avoid which they came under the shelter of my roof.
Genesis 33:10
And Jacob said, If I have found grace in thy sight, receive the gifts through my hands; therefore have I seen thy face, as if any one should see the face of God, and thou shalt be well-pleased with me.
Judges 6:18
depart not hence until I come to thee, and I will bring forth an offering and offer it before thee: and he said, I will remain until thou return.
Judges 13:15
And Manoe said to the angel of the Lord, Let us detain thee here, and prepare before thee a kid of the goats.
Judges 19:5
And it came to pass on the fourth day that they rose early, and he stood up to depart; and the father of the damsel said to his son-in-law, Strengthen thy heart with a morsel of bread, and afterwards ye shall go.
Psalms 104:15
and wine makes glad the heart of man, to make his face cheerful with oil: and bread strengthens man’s heart.
Isaiah 3:1
Behold now, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, will take away from Jerusalem and from Judea the mighty man and mighty woman, the strength of bread, and the strength of water,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But if a man be just,.... Not legally, as to be wholly free from sin, for there is no such just man, Ecclesiastes 7:20; but evangelically, through the imputation of the righteousness of Christ unto him; and who has a principle of grace and holiness wrought in him; a man of a just principle and good conscience; who is disposed by the grace of God to that which is just and right; for this seems to refer to the inward frame of the mind, as distinct from actions, and as the source of them, as follows:

and do that which is lawful and right; or "judgment" c and "justice"; true judgment and justice, as the Targum; that which is just and right by the law of God, and is so between man and man; the particulars of which follow:

c משפט וצדקה "judiciam et justitiam", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, &c.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 18:5. If a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right — If he be just or holy within, and do what is according to law and equity. What is meant by this, is immediately specified.


 
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