Ezekiel 18:26

KJV1611 – Modern English

When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies in them; for his iniquity that he has done he shall die.

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  • Ezek 33:12-19
    8 verses
    95%

    12Therefore, son of man, say to the children of your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sins.

    13When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trusts in his own righteousness, and commits iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he has committed, he shall die for it.

    14Again, when I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; if he turns from his sin, and does that which is lawful and right;

    15If the wicked restores the pledge, gives back what he has stolen, walks in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.

    16None of his sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him: he has done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.

    17Yet the children of your people say, The way of the Lord is not fair: but it is their way that is not fair.

    18When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall die because of it.

    19But if the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall live because of it.

  • Ezek 18:17-25
    9 verses
    93%

    17Who has taken off his hand from the poor, who has not received interest nor increase, has executed My judgments, has walked in My statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.

    18As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did what is not good among his people, behold, even he shall die in his iniquity.

    19Yet you say, ‘Why? Does not the son bear the iniquity of the father?’ When the son has done what is lawful and right, and has kept all My statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live.

    20The soul that sins, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, nor shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

    21But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he has committed, and keep all My statutes, and do what is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

    22All his transgressions that he has committed shall not be mentioned to him: in his righteousness that he has done he shall live.

    23Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? says the Lord GOD, and not that he should return from his ways and live?

    24But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, should he live? All his righteousness that he has done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die.

    25Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not equal.’ Hear now, O house of Israel: Is not My way equal? Are not your ways unequal?

  • Ezek 18:27-32
    6 verses
    85%

    27Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does what is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.

    28Because he considers and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

    29Yet says the house of Israel, ‘The way of the Lord is not equal.’ O house of Israel, are not My ways equal? Are not your ways unequal?

    30Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, says the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.

    31Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby you have transgressed; and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, O house of Israel?

    32For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies, says the Lord GOD: therefore turn yourselves, and live.

  • Ezek 3:18-21
    4 verses
    85%

    18When I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; and you do not give him warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand.

    19Yet if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.

    20Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die: because you have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand.

    21Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous do not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also you have delivered your soul.

  • Ezek 33:8-9
    2 verses
    77%

    8When I say to the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die; if you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand.

    9Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he does not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.

  • Prov 11:19
    76%

    19As righteousness leads to life, so he who pursues evil pursues it to his own death.

  • Ezek 18:5
    76%

    5But if a man is just and does what is lawful and right,

  • Prov 14:32
    75%

    32The wicked is banished in his wickedness, but the righteous has hope in his death.

  • Isa 57:1
    75%

    1The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.

  • Prov 11:5-8
    4 verses
    74%

    5The righteousness of the blameless shall direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

    6The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but transgressors shall be captured by their own evil.

    7When a wicked man dies, his hope shall perish, and the expectation of unjust men perishes.

    8The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked comes in his place.

  • Prov 13:6
    74%

    6Righteousness guards him who is upright in the way, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

  • Ezek 18:13-14
    2 verses
    74%

    13Has given out loans with interest, and has taken increase; shall he then live? He shall not live: he has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.

    14Now, if he begets a son who sees all his father's sins which he has done, and considers and does not do such like,

  • Prov 14:12
    74%

    12There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.

  • Prov 28:10
    74%

    10Whoever causes the righteous to go astray in an evil way will fall into his own pit, but the upright shall have good things in possession.

  • Prov 12:28
    73%

    28In the path of righteousness there is life, and in its way there is no death.

  • Ezek 18:9
    73%

    9Has walked in My statutes, and has kept My judgments, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, says the Lord GOD.

  • Prov 5:22-23
    2 verses
    73%

    22His own iniquities shall capture the wicked, and he shall be held with the cords of his sins.

    23He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

  • Prov 16:25
    73%

    25There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end are the ways of death.

  • Prov 19:16
    73%

    16He who keeps the commandment keeps his own soul, but he who despises his ways shall die.

  • Prov 28:18
    72%

    18Whoever walks uprightly shall be saved, but he who is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.

  • Ps 1:6
    72%

    6For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish.