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Ezekiel 18:26

If good people change and become evil, they must die for the bad things they do.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Apostasy;   Backsliders;   Children;   Condescension of God;   Judgment;   Responsibility;   Wicked (People);   The Topic Concordance - Death;   God;   Man;   Turning;   Ways;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Repentance;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Death;   Ezekiel;   Life;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Death;   Ethics;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Individual;   Self-Examination;   Wisdom of Solomon;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Lead;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   Kingdom or Church of Christ, the;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Atonement;   Captivity;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for January 31;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
When a righteous person turns from his righteousness and acts unjustly, he will die for this. He will die because of the injustice he has committed.
Hebrew Names Version
When the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies therein; in his iniquity that he has done shall he die.
King James Version
When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.
English Standard Version
When a righteous person turns away from his righteousness and does injustice, he shall die for it; for the injustice that he has done he shall die.
New American Standard Bible
"When a righteous person turns away from his righteousness, commits injustice and dies because of it, for his injustice which he has committed he dies.
New Century Version
When good people stop doing good and do wrong, they will die because of it. They will die, because they did wrong.
Amplified Bible
"When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits sin and dies because of it, it is for his sin which he has committed that he dies.
World English Bible
When the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies therein; in his iniquity that he has done shall he die.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For when a righteous man turneth away from his righteousnes, and committeth iniquitie, he shall euen die for the same, he shal euen die for his iniquitie, that he hath done.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, commits iniquity and dies because of it, for his iniquity which he has committed he will die.
Legacy Standard Bible
When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, does injustice, and dies because of it, for his injustice which he has done he will die.
Berean Standard Bible
When 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.
Contemporary English Version
If good people start doing evil, they must be put to death, because they have sinned.
Complete Jewish Bible
When the righteous person turns away from his righteousness and commits wickedness, he will die for it — for the wickedness he commits he will die.
Darby Translation
When the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and practiseth what is wrong, and dieth for it; in his wrong that he hath done shall he die.
George Lamsa Translation
If a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, in the iniquity that he has committed shall he die.
Good News Translation
When a righteous person stops doing good and starts doing evil and then dies, he dies because of the evil he has done.
Lexham English Bible
When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and he does injustice, then he will die because of them; because of his injustice that he did he will die!
Literal Translation
When a righteous one turns from his righteousness and does injustice and dies in them, he shall die for his injustice which he has done.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
When a rightuous ma turneth awaye from his rightuousnesse, and medleth with vngodlynes: he must dye therin: Yee for the vnrightuousnes that he hath done, must he dye.
American Standard Version
When the righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth therein; in his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.
Bible in Basic English
When the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, death will overtake him; in the evil which he has done death will overtake him.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
When the righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall die therefor; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.
King James Version (1611)
When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousnesse, & committeth iniquitie, and dieth in them; for his iniquitie that he hath done, shall he die.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousnesse, and committeth iniquitie, and dieth in the same: in his iniquitie whiche he hath committed shall he dye.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
When the righteous turns away from his righteousness and commits a trespass, and dies in the trespass he has committed, he shall even die in it.
English Revised Version
When the righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth therein; in his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For whanne a riytful man turneth awei hym silf fro his riytfulnesse, and doith wickidnesse, he schal die in it, he schal die in the vnriytwisnesse which he wrouyte.
Update Bible Version
When the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies therein; in his iniquity that he has done he shall die.
Webster's Bible Translation
When a righteous [man] turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.
New English Translation
When a righteous person turns back from his righteousness and practices wrongdoing, he will die for it; because of the wrongdoing he has done, he will die.
New King James Version
When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, commits iniquity, and dies in it, it is because of the iniquity which he has done that he dies.
New Living Translation
When righteous people turn from their righteous behavior and start doing sinful things, they will die for it. Yes, they will die because of their sinful deeds.
New Life Bible
When a right and good man turns away from doing what is right and good, and sins, and dies because of it, he dies because of the sin he has done.
New Revised Standard
When the righteous turn away from their righteousness and commit iniquity, they shall die for it; for the iniquity that they have committed they shall die.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
When a righteous man shall turn away from his righteousness and do that which is perverse and die because of those things In his own perversity which he hath done, shall he die.
Douay-Rheims Bible
For when the just turneth himself away from his justice, and comitteth iniquity, he shall die therein: in the injustice that he hath wrought he shall die.
Revised Standard Version
When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he shall die for it; for the iniquity which he has committed he shall die.
Young's Literal Translation
In the turning back of the righteous from his righteousness, And he hath done perversity, And he is dying by them, for his perversity That he hath done he dieth.

Contextual Overview

21 "Now, if evil people change their lives, they will live and not die. They might stop doing all the bad things they did and begin to carefully obey all my laws. They might become fair and good. 22 God will not remember all the bad things they did. He will remember only their goodness, so they will live!" 23 The Lord God says, "I don't want evil people to die. I want them to change their lives so that they can live! 24 "Now, maybe good people might stop being good. They might change their lives and begin to do all the terrible things that evil people have done in the past. (The evil people changed, so they can live.) So if those good people change and become bad, God will not remember all the good things they did. He will remember that they turned against him and began to sin. So they will die because of their sin. 25 "You people might say, ‘The Lord isn't fair!' But listen, family of Israel. I am fair. You are the ones who are not fair! 26 If good people change and become evil, they must die for the bad things they do. 27 And if evil people change and become good and fair, they will save their lives. They will live! 28 They saw how wicked they were and came back to me. They stopped doing the evil things they did in the past. So they will live! They will not die!" 29 The people of Israel said, "That's not fair! The Lord isn't fair!" "I am fair! You are the ones who are not fair!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Leviticus 6:7 - make Proverbs 2:13 - leave Ezekiel 3:20 - When Ezekiel 18:18 - even Ezekiel 18:24 - when Ezekiel 33:18 - General Colossians 1:23 - ye continue 1 John 5:17 - and

Cross-References

Isaiah 6:13
A tenth of the people will be allowed to stay in the land, but it will be destroyed again. They will be like an oak tree. When the tree is chopped down, a stump is left. This stump will be a very special seed that will grow again.
Isaiah 10:22
Israel, your people are as many as the sands of the sea, but only a few of them will be left to come back to God. But before that happens, your country will be destroyed. God has announced that he will destroy the land. And then justice will come into the land like a river flowing full.
Isaiah 19:24
Then Israel, Assyria, and Egypt will join together and control the land. This will be a blessing for the land.
Isaiah 65:8
The Lord says, "When there is new wine in the grapes, people squeeze out the wine. But they don't completely destroy the grapes because the grapes can still be used. I will do the same thing to my servants. I will not destroy them completely.
Jeremiah 5:1
The Lord says, "Walk the streets of Jerusalem. Look around and think about these things. Search the public squares of the city. See if you can find one good person, one who does honest things and who searches for the truth. If you find one good person, I will forgive Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 22:30
"I asked the people to change their lives and protect their country. I asked people to fix the walls. I wanted them to stand by those holes in the wall and fight to protect their city. But no one came to help!
Matthew 24:22
"But God has decided to make that terrible time short. If it were not made short, no one would continue living. But God will make that time short to help the people he has chosen.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

When a righteous [man] turneth away from his righteousness,.... This is repeated for the further confirmation of it, and to raise their attention to it; to make it more plain and manifest to them, and to fix it upon their minds:

and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them: or, "he shall die for them" m; both for his turning away from his righteousness, and for his committing iniquity:

for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die; in both respects. This is repeated to denote the certainty of it.

m עליהם "propter illa", Pagninus, Piscator, Grotius, Cocceius; so some in Vatsbins.


 
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