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Wednesday, September 10th, 2025
the Week of Proper 18 / Ordinary 23
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Good News Translation

Ezekiel 33:18

When someone righteous stops doing good and starts doing evil, he will die for it.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Apostasy;   Backsliders;   Blasphemy;   Condescension of God;   God Continued...;   Judgment;   Responsibility;   Wicked (People);   Works;   The Topic Concordance - Death;   God;   Judges;   Man;   Repentance;   Turning;   Ways;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
When a righteous person turns from his righteousness and commits injustice, he will die for it.
Hebrew Names Version
When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die therein.
King James Version
When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby.
English Standard Version
When the righteous turns from his righteousness and does injustice, he shall die for it.
New American Standard Bible
"When the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits injustice, then he shall die in it.
New Century Version
When the good people stop doing good and do evil, they will die for their evil.
Amplified Bible
"When the righteous turns back from his righteousness and commits injustice, he will also die because of it.
World English Bible
When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die therein.
Geneva Bible (1587)
When the righteous turneth from his righteousnesse, and committeth iniquitie, he shall euen die thereby.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"When the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, then he shall die in it.
Legacy Standard Bible
When the righteous turns from his righteousness and does iniquity, then he shall die in it.
Berean Standard Bible
If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he will die for it.
Contemporary English Version
If good people start doing evil, they will 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 because of it.
Darby Translation
When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and doeth what is wrong, then he shall die therein.
Easy-to-Read Version
If good people stop doing good and begin to sin, they will die because of their sins.
George Lamsa Translation
When a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he shall die in his iniquity.
Lexham English Bible
When the righteous turns from his righteousness and does injustice, then he will die because of it.
Literal Translation
When the righteous turns from his righteousness and does iniquity, he shall even die by them.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
When the rightuous turneth from his rightuousnesse, and doeth the thynge that is wicked, he shall dye therfore.
American Standard Version
When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die therein.
Bible in Basic English
When the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, death will overtake him in it.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby.
King James Version (1611)
When the righteous turneth from his righteousnes, and committeth iniquitie, he shall euen die thereby.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
When the righteous turneth from his righteousnes, and doth the thing that is wicked, he shall dye therein.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
When the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and shall commit iniquities, then shall he die in them.
English Revised Version
When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die therein.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For whanne a iust man goith awei fro his riytfulnesse, and doith wickidnessis, he schal die in tho;
Update Bible Version
When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die therein.
Webster's Bible Translation
When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, for that he shall even die.
New English Translation
When a righteous man turns from his godliness and commits iniquity, he will die for it.
New King James Version
When the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he shall die because of it.
New Living Translation
For again I say, when righteous people turn away from their righteous behavior and turn to evil, they will die.
New Life Bible
When the right and good man turns from his good way and sins, he will die for it.
New Revised Standard
When the righteous turn from their righteousness, and commit iniquity, they shall die for it.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
When the righteous man shall turn from his righteousness and commit perversity Then shall he die for them;
Douay-Rheims Bible
For when the just shall depart from his justice, and commit iniquities, he shall die in them.
Revised Standard Version
When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall die for it.
Young's Literal Translation
In the turning back of the righteous from his righteousness, And he hath done perversity -- he dieth for it.

Contextual Overview

10 The Lord spoke to me. "Mortal man," he said, "repeat to the Israelites what they are saying: ‘We are burdened with our sins and the wrongs we have done. We are wasting away. How can we live?' 11 Tell them that as surely as I, the Sovereign Lord , am the living God, I do not enjoy seeing sinners die. I would rather see them stop sinning and live. Israel, stop the evil you are doing. Why do you want to die? 12 "Now, mortal man, tell the Israelites that when someone good sins, the good he has done will not save him. If an evil person stops doing evil, he won't be punished, and if a good man starts sinning, his life will not be spared. 13 I may promise life to someone good, but if he starts thinking that his past goodness is enough and begins to sin, I will not remember any of the good he did. He will die because of his sins. 14 I may warn someone evil that he is going to die, but if he stops sinning and does what is right and good— 15 for example, if he returns the security he took for a loan or gives back what he stole—if he stops sinning and follows the laws that give life, he will not die, but live. 16 I will forgive the sins he has committed, and he will live because he has done what is right and good. 17 "And your people say that what I do isn't right! No, it's their way that isn't right. 18 When someone righteous stops doing good and starts doing evil, he will die for it. 19 When someone evil quits sinning and does what is right and good, he has saved his life.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 18:10 - do Jeremiah 31:30 - General Ezekiel 18:24 - when Amos 5:7 - leave Revelation 22:4 - they

Cross-References

Genesis 25:20
Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebecca, the daughter of Bethuel (an Aramean from Mesopotamia) and sister of Laban.
Genesis 28:2
Go instead to Mesopotamia, to the home of your grandfather Bethuel, and marry one of the young women there, one of your uncle Laban's daughters.
Genesis 33:6
Then the concubines came up with their children and bowed down;
Genesis 33:7
then Leah and her children came, and last of all Joseph and Rachel came and bowed down.
Genesis 35:9
When Jacob returned from Mesopotamia, God appeared to him again and blessed him.
Genesis 46:15
These are the sons that Leah had borne to Jacob in Mesopotamia, besides his daughter Dinah. In all, his descendants by Leah numbered thirty-three.
Joshua 24:1
Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel together at Shechem. He called the elders, the leaders, the judges, and the officers of Israel, and they came into the presence of God.
Judges 9:1
Gideon's son Abimelech went to the town of Shechem, where all his mother's relatives lived, and told them
John 3:23
John also was baptizing in Aenon, not far from Salim, because there was plenty of water in that place. People were going to him, and he was baptizing them.
John 4:5
In Samaria he came to a town named Sychar, which was not far from the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

When the righteous turneth from his righteousness,.... This and what is said in the following verse are clear instances of the equality, justness, and goodness of the ways of God; and are again repeated, if possible, to make it clear and plain to them that their charge and complaint were groundless; :-,

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