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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Ezekiel 18:5

But when, any man, shall be righteous, and do justice 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:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But the man who shall be just, who executes judgment and righteousness,
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—
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 Yahweh came unto me saying: 2 What occasion have ye, to be using this proverb, concerning the so of Israel, saying, - Fathers eat sour grapes, And the children's teeth are blunted? 3 As I live, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh, Surely ye shall have occasion no longer to use this proverb, in Israel. 4 Lo! as for all persons, mine they are, As the person of the father, so also the person of the son, mine they are, - The person that sinneth, the same shall die. 5 But when, any man, shall be righteous, and do justice and righteousness: 6 Upon the mountains, hath not eaten, And his eyes, hath not lifted up unto the manufactured gods of the house of Israel, And the wife of his neighbour, hath not defiled, And unto a woman during her removal, hath not approached; 7 And no man, hath treated with violence, But his debt-pledge, hath restored. Plunder, hath not seized, - His bread - to the famished, hath given, And the naked, hath covered with clothing; 8 Upon interest, hath not put out his money. And increase, hath not accepted, From dishonesty, hath turned back his hand, - Justice in truth, hath doze, between man and man; 9 In my statutes, hath walked. And my regulations, hath observed to do them in truth, Righteous, he is, He shall surely live, Declareth My Lord. Yahweh.

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
Behold, I pray you, I, have two daughters who have not known man, I must needs now bring, them, forth unto you, and do ye to them, as may be good in your eyes, - Only to these men, ye may do nothing; for on this account, have they come under the shade of my roof.
Genesis 33:10
Then said Jacob, Nay, I pray thee, if, I pray thee, have found favour in thine eyes, then thou wilt take my present at my hand, - For on this account, hath my seeing thy face been like seeing the face of God in that thou wast well-pleased with me.
Judges 6:18
Do not, I beseech thee, withdraw from hence, until I come unto thee, and bring forth my present, and set it before thee. And he said: I, will tarry until thou return.
Judges 13:15
And Manoah said unto the messenger of Yahweh, - I pray thee, let us detain thee, that we may make ready for thy presence, a kid.
Judges 19:5
And it came to pass, on the fourth day, when they arose early in the morning, and gat up to go, that the father of the damsel said unto his son-in-law, - Stay thy heart with a morsel of bread, and, afterwards, ye shall go your way.
Psalms 104:15
And, wine, may rejoice the heart of man, Making radiant his well-nourished face, - And, food, may, the heart of man, sustain.
Isaiah 3:1
For lo! the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, removing from Jerusalem and from Judah, The stay and staff, - The whole stay of bread, And the whole stay of water:
Matthew 6:11
Our needful bread, give us, this day;

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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