Ezechiel 3:18

Romanian Cornilescu Translation

Cînd voi zice celui rău: ,Vei muri negreşit!`, dacă nu -l vei înştiinţa, şi nu -i vei spune, ca să -l întorci dela calea lui cea rea şi să -i scapi viaţa, acel om rău va muri prin nelegiuirea lui, dar îi voi cere sîngele din mîna ta!

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I say: Ezekiel 18:4, Ezekiel 18:13, Ezekiel 18:20, Ezekiel 33:6, Ezekiel 33:8, Genesis 2:17, Genesis 3:3, Genesis 3:4, Numbers 26:65, 2 Kings 1:4, Isaiah 3:11, Luke 13:3, Luke 13:5, Ephesians 5:5, Ephesians 5:6

to save: Ezekiel 18:30-32, Acts 2:40, Acts 3:19, 1 Timothy 4:16, James 5:19, James 5:20

the same: Ezekiel 33:6, Ezekiel 33:9, Ezekiel 33:10, Proverbs 14:32, John 8:21, John 8:24

but: Ezekiel 34:10, Genesis 9:5, Genesis 9:6, Genesis 42:22, 2 Samuel 4:11, Luke 11:50, Luke 11:51, Acts 20:26, Acts 20:27, 1 Timothy 5:22

Reciprocal: Genesis 20:7 - surely Genesis 43:9 - of my hand Exodus 33:3 - for I Numbers 18:1 - shall bear Deuteronomy 22:8 - thou bring Joshua 22:23 - let the Lord 1 Samuel 8:9 - howbeit 2 Kings 6:10 - warned him 2 Chronicles 19:10 - warn them Psalms 40:10 - not hid Proverbs 13:17 - wicked Isaiah 53:6 - his own Isaiah 55:7 - the wicked Jeremiah 6:10 - give Jeremiah 7:27 - thou shalt speak Jeremiah 31:30 - General Ezekiel 3:19 - he shall Ezekiel 3:20 - because Ezekiel 18:18 - even Ezekiel 33:14 - Thou shalt Matthew 3:7 - who Mark 6:18 - It is Acts 4:11 - you Acts 18:6 - Your Acts 27:11 - believed James 3:1 - knowing

Gill's Notes on the Bible

When I say unto the wicked, thou shalt surely die,.... Not only a corporeal but an eternal death for this is what the law threatens with, and there the Lord says this; and this is the wages, end, and issue of sin, if grace prevent not:

and thou givest him not warning; of the evil nature of sin, and of the danger it exposes to:

nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way; to abstain from it, and live another course of life:

to save his life; for such warning, caution, exhortation, and doctrine, may be a means of converting a sinner from the evil of his way, and of saving a soul from death, 1 Timothy 4:16;

the same wicked [man] shall die in his iniquity; with the pollution and guilt of sin upon him, and so be punished for it; see John 8:24;

but his blood will I require at thine hands; thou shalt be answerable for him; his death shall be laid to thy charge, and thou shalt be chastised for thy negligence; see Acts 20:26.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This passage anticipates the great moral principle of divine government Ezekiel 18:0 that each man is individually responsible for his own actions, and will be judged according to these and these alone.

Ezekiel 3:20

I lay a stumblingblock before him - I bring him to trial by placing difficulties and temptations in his way (compare Ezekiel 7:19; Ezekiel 44:12 margin; Ezekiel 14:3-4). It is true that God tempts no man in order to his destruction, but in the course of His Providence He permits men to be tried in order that their faith may be approved, and in this trial some who seem to be righteous fall.

Because thou ... his blood ... - So far as the prophet was concerned, the neglect of his duty is reckoned as the cause of the seemingly righteous man’s fall.

His righteousness ... - Or, righteousnesses, i. e. acts of righteousness. The “righteous” man here is one, who had hitherto done the “acts of righteousness” prescribed by the Law, but when trial came was shown to lack the “principle of righteousness.”

Ezekiel 3:21

The repetition of the word “righteous” is to be noted. There seems to be an intimation that sin is alien to the character of a “righteous” man. Compare 1 John 3:7-9.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 3:18. Thou shalt surely die — That is, If he turn not from his wickedness, and thou givest him not warning, as above, he shalt die in his iniquity, which he should not have committed; but his blood will I require at thy hand-I will visit thy soul for the loss of his. O how awful is this! Hear it, ye priests, ye preachers, ye ministers of the Gospel; ye, especially, who have entered into the ministry for a living, ye who gather a congregation to yourselves that ye may feed upon their fat, and clothe yourselves with their wool; in whose parishes and in whose congregations souls are dying unconverted from day to day, who have never been solemnly warned by you, and to whom you have never shown the way of salvation, probably because ye know nothing of it yourselves! O what a perdition awaits you! To have the blood of every soul that has died in your parishes or in your congregations unconverted laid at your door! To suffer a common damnation for every soul that perishes through your neglect! How many loads of endless wo must such have to bear! Ye take your tithes, your stipends, or your rents, to the last grain, and the last penny; while the souls over whom you made yourselves watchmen have perished, and are perishing, through your neglect. O worthless and hapless men! better for you had ye never been born! Vain is your boast of apostolical authority, while ye do not the work of apostles! Vain your boast of orthodoxy, while ye neither show nor know the way of salvation! Vain your pretensions to a Divine call, when ye do not the work of evangelists! The state of the most wretched of the human race is enviable to that of such ministers, pastors, teachers, and preachers.

But let not this discourage the faithful minister who teaches every man, and warns every man, in all wisdom, that he may present every man perfect to Christ Jesus. If after such teaching and warning they will sin on, and die in their sins, their blood will be upon themselves; but thou, O man of God, hast delivered thine own soul.