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the Week of Proper 18 / Ordinary 23
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Good News Translation

Ezekiel 33:19

When someone evil quits sinning and does what is right and good, he has saved his life.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

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

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Lawful;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
But if a wicked person turns from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he will live because of it.
Hebrew Names Version
When the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
King James Version
But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
English Standard Version
And when the wicked turns from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he shall live by this.
New American Standard Bible
"But when the wicked turns from his wickedness and practices justice and righteousness, he will live by them.
New Century Version
But when the wicked stop doing evil and do what is right and fair, they will live.
Amplified Bible
"But when a wicked man turns back from his wickedness and practices what is just (fair) and right, he will live because of it.
World English Bible
When the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But if the wicked returne from his wickednesse, and doe that which is lawfull and right, hee shall liue thereby.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"But when the wicked turns from his wickedness and practices justice and righteousness, he will live by them.
Legacy Standard Bible
But when the wicked turns from his wickedness and does justice and righteousness, he will live by them.
Berean Standard Bible
But if a wicked man turns from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he will live because of this.
Contemporary English Version
And if wicked people stop sinning and start doing right, they will save themselves from punishment.
Complete Jewish Bible
And when the wicked person turns from his wickedness and does what is lawful and right, he will live because of it.
Darby Translation
And when the wicked turneth from his wickedness, and doeth judgment and justice, he shall live for these things.
Easy-to-Read Version
And if evil people stop doing wrong and start living right and being fair, they will live.
George Lamsa Translation
And when a wicked man turns from his wickedness and does that which is just and right, he shall live thereby.
Lexham English Bible
And when the wicked turns from his wickedness, and he does justice and righteousness, because of it he will certainly live!
Literal Translation
But if the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does justice and righteousness, he shall live by them.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But yf the wicked turne from his wickednesse, doinge the thinge that is laufull and right, he shall lyue therfore.
American Standard Version
And when the wicked turneth from his wickedness, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
Bible in Basic English
And when the evil man, turning away from his evil-doing, does what is ordered and right, he will get life by it.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And when the wicked turneth from his wickedness, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
King James Version (1611)
But if the wicked turne from his wickednes, and doe that which is lawfull and right, he shall liue thereby.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But if the wicked turne from his wickednes, doing the thing that is lawfull and right, he shall lyue therefore.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And when the sinner turns from his iniquity, and shall do judgment and righteousness, he shall live by them.
English Revised Version
And when the wicked turneth from his wickedness, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and whanne a wickid man goith awei fro his wickidnesse, and doith dom and riytfulnes, he schal lyue in tho.
Update Bible Version
And when the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
Webster's Bible Translation
But if the wicked shall turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, for that he shall live.
New English Translation
When the wicked turns from his sin and does what is just and right, he will live because of it.
New King James Version
But when the wicked turns from his wickedness and does what is lawful and right, he shall live because of it.
New Living Translation
But if wicked people turn from their wickedness and do what is just and right, they will live.
New Life Bible
But when the sinful man turns from his sin and does what is right and good, he will live because of it.
New Revised Standard
And when the wicked turn from their wickedness, and do what is lawful and right, they shall live by it.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But when the lawless man shall turn from his lawlessness, and do justice and righteousness Upon them, shall he live.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And when the wicked shall depart from his wickedness, and shall do judgments, and justice, he shall live in them.
Revised Standard Version
And when the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does what is lawful and right, he shall live by it.
Young's Literal Translation
And in the turning back of the wicked from his wickedness, And he hath done judgment and righteousness, by them he liveth.

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 33:14, Ezekiel 18:27, Ezekiel 18:28

Reciprocal: Leviticus 6:7 - make Deuteronomy 6:18 - shalt do Deuteronomy 30:10 - turn unto Psalms 119:59 - turned Ezekiel 18:21 - if the Ezekiel 33:12 - as for

Cross-References

Genesis 33:2
He put the concubines and their children first, then Leah and her children, and finally Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
Genesis 33:17
But Jacob went to Sukkoth, where he built a house for himself and shelters for his livestock. That is why the place was named Sukkoth.
Genesis 33:20
He put up an altar there and named it for El, the God of Israel.
Joshua 24:32
The body of Joseph, which the people of Israel had brought from Egypt, was buried at Shechem, in the piece of land that Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred pieces of silver. This land was inherited by Joseph's descendants.
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.
Acts 7:16
Their bodies were taken to Shechem, where they were buried in the grave which Abraham had bought from the clan of Hamor for a sum of money.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But if the wicked turn from his wickedness,....

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Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 33:19. He shall live thereby — "The wages of sin is death;" the "gift of God is eternal life." It is a miserable trade by which a man cannot live; such a trade is sin.


 
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