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New King James Version

Ezekiel 33:19

But when the wicked turns from his wickedness and does what is lawful and right, he shall live because of it.

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.
Good News Translation
When someone evil quits sinning and does what is right and good, he has saved his life.
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 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 "Therefore you, O son of man, say to the house of Israel: "Thus you say, "If our transgressions and our sins lie upon us, and we pine away in them, how can we then live?"' 11 Say to them: "As I live,' says the Lord GOD, "I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?' 12 "Therefore you, O son of man, say to the children of your people: "The righteousness of the righteous man shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression; as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall because of it in the day that he turns from his wickedness; nor shall the righteous be able to live because of his righteousness in the day that he sins.' 13 When I say to the righteous that he shall surely live, but he trusts in his own righteousness and commits iniquity, none of his righteous works shall be remembered; but because of the iniquity that he has committed, he shall die. 14 Again, when I say to the wicked, "You shall surely die,' if he turns from his sin and does what is lawful and right, 15 if the wicked restores the pledge, gives back what he has stolen, and walks in the statutes of life without committing iniquity, he shall surely live; he shall not die. 16 None of his sins which he has committed shall be remembered against him; he has done what is lawful and right; he shall surely live. 17 "Yet the children of your people say, "The way of the LORD is not fair.' But it is their way which is not fair! 18 When the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he shall die because of it. 19 But when the wicked turns from his wickedness and does what is lawful and right, he shall live because of it.

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
And he put the maidservants and their children in front, Leah and her children behind, and Rachel and Joseph last.
Genesis 33:17
And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, built himself a house, and made booths for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth. [fn]
Genesis 33:20
20 Then he erected an altar there and called it El Elohe Israel. [fn]
Joshua 24:32
The bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel had brought up out of Egypt, they buried at Shechem, in the plot of ground which Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for one hundred pieces of silver, and which had become an inheritance of the children of Joseph.
John 4:5
So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
Acts 7:16
And they were carried back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem.

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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