Ezekiel 33:15

KJV1611 – Modern English

If 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.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    if they return what they took in pledge for a loan, restore anything they have stolen, and follow the decrees that give life, doing no wrong—they will surely live; they will not die.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    if the wicked{H7563} restore{H7725} the pledge,{H2258} give again{H7999} that which he had taken by robbery,{H1500} walk{H1980} in the statutes{H2708} of life,{H2416} committing{H6213} no iniquity;{H5766} he shall surely{H2421} live,{H2421} he shall not die.{H4191}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    If the wicked{H7563} restore{H7725}{(H8686)} the pledge{H2258}, give again{H7999}{(H8762)} that he had robbed{H1500}, walk{H1980}{(H8804)} in the statutes{H2708} of life{H2416}, without committing{H6213}{(H8800)} iniquity{H5766}; he shall surely{H2421}{(H8800)} live{H2421}{(H8799)}, he shall not die{H4191}{(H8799)}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    In so moch that the same wicked ma geueth the pledge agayne, restoreth that he had taken awaye by robbery, walketh in the comaundementes off life, and doth no wroge: Then shall he surely lyue, and not dye.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    To wit, if the wicked restore the pledge, and giue againe that he had robbed, and walke in the statutes of life, without committing iniquitie, he shall surely liue, and not die.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Insomuch that the same wicked man geueth the pledge againe, restoreth that he had take away by robbery, walketh in the commaundementes of lyfe, and doth none iniquitie: then shall he surely lyue and not dye.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    [If] the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    (The pledge the wicked restoreth, plunder he repayeth,) In the statutes of life he hath walked, So as not to do perversity, He surely liveth -- he doth not die.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    If the evil-doer lets one who is in his debt have back what is his, and gives back what he had taken by force, and is guided by the rules of life, doing no evil; life will certainly be his, death will not overtake him.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    He returns what was taken in pledge, pays back what he has stolen, and follows the statutes that give life, committing no iniquity. He will certainly live– he will not die.

Referenced Verses

  • Ezek 20:11 : 11 And I gave them my statutes, and showed them my judgments, which if a man does, he shall even live in them.
  • Luke 19:8 : 8 And Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, Behold, Lord, I give half of my goods to the poor; and if I have taken anything from anyone by false accusation, I restore it fourfold.
  • Exod 22:1-4 : 1 If a man steals an ox or a sheep and kills it or sells it, he shall restore five oxen for the ox and four sheep for the sheep. 2 If a thief is found breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no bloodshed for him. 3 If the sun has risen upon him, there shall be bloodshed for him, for he should make full restitution; if he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. 4 If the stolen goods are found alive in his hand, whether it is ox, donkey, or sheep, he shall restore double.
  • Ezek 18:7 : 7 And has not oppressed anyone, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has spoiled none by violence, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment,
  • Lev 6:2-5 : 2 If a person sins and commits a trespass against the LORD, and lies to his neighbor about something delivered to him to keep, or about a pledge, or about something taken away by violence, or has deceived his neighbor; 3 Or if he has found what was lost and lies about it, and swears falsely; in any of these things a person may do, sinning therein: 4 Then it shall be, because he has sinned and is guilty, that he shall restore what he took violently away, or the thing which he has deceitfully obtained, or what was delivered to him to keep, or the lost thing which he found, 5 Or anything about which he has sworn falsely; he shall restore it in full, and shall add one-fifth more to it, and give it to the one to whom it belongs, on the day of his trespass offering.
  • Lev 18:5 : 5 You shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, which if a man does, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.
  • Num 5:6-8 : 6 Speak to the children of Israel, When a man or woman commits any sin that people commit by breaking faith with the LORD, and that person is guilty; 7 Then they shall confess their sin that they have committed, and he shall compensate for his wrong with its principal, and add to it one-fifth of it, and give it to him against whom he has trespassed. 8 But if the man has no relative to whom restitution can be made for the trespass, let the restitution be made to the LORD for the priest, besides the ram of atonement with which atonement is made for him.
  • Deut 24:6 : 6 No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone as a pledge: for he takes a man's life as a pledge.
  • Deut 24:10-13 : 10 When you lend your brother anything, you shall not go into his house to fetch his pledge. 11 You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you lend shall bring out the pledge to you. 12 And if the man is poor, you shall not sleep with his pledge: 13 In any case you shall return the pledge to him when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his own clothing, and bless you: and it shall be righteousness to you before the LORD your God.
  • Deut 24:17 : 17 You shall not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's clothing as a pledge:
  • Job 22:6 : 6 For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
  • Job 24:3 : 3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless; they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
  • Job 24:9 : 9 They snatch the fatherless from the breast and take a pledge from the poor.
  • Ps 119:93 : 93 I will never forget Your precepts, for by them You have revived me.
  • Ezek 18:12 : 12 Has oppressed the poor and needy, has spoiled by violence, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,
  • Ezek 18:16 : 16 Nor has oppressed anyone, has not withheld the pledge, nor spoiled by violence, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment,
  • Ezek 18:27-28 : 27 Again, 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. 28 Because he considers and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
  • Ezek 20:13 : 13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they did not walk in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man does, he shall even live in them; and they greatly polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
  • Ezek 20:21 : 21 Nevertheless the children rebelled against me: they did not walk in my statutes, nor kept my judgments to do them, which if a man does, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
  • Amos 2:8 : 8 They lie down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
  • Luke 1:6 : 6 They were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
  • Exod 22:26-27 : 26 If you take your neighbor's garment as a pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down, 27 for that is his only covering, his garment for his skin. What will he sleep in? And it shall come to pass, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.
  • Rev 22:12-14 : 12 And behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. 13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. 14 Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezek 18:16-24
    9 verses
    87%

    16 Nor has oppressed anyone, has not withheld the pledge, nor spoiled by violence, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment,

    17 Who 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.

    18 As 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.

    19 Yet 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.

    20 The 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.

    21 But 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.

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

    23 Have 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?

    24 But 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.

  • Ezek 33:18-19
    2 verses
    86%

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

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

  • Ezek 33:8-14
    7 verses
    85%

    8 When 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.

    9 Nevertheless, 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.

    10 Therefore, O son of man, speak to the house of Israel; this is what you speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and we waste away in them, how should 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 back, turn back from your evil ways; for why will you die, O house of Israel?

    12 Therefore, 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.

    13 When 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.

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

  • Ezek 33:16
    83%

    16 None 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.

  • Ezek 18:26-28
    3 verses
    81%

    26 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.

    27 Again, 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.

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

  • Ezek 18:7-10
    4 verses
    81%

    7 And has not oppressed anyone, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has spoiled none by violence, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment,

    8 He that has not given out loans with interest, nor taken any increase, that has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true judgment between man and man,

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

    10 If he begets a son who is a robber, a shedder of blood, and does any of these things,

  • Ezek 18:12-14
    3 verses
    75%

    12 Has oppressed the poor and needy, has spoiled by violence, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,

    13 Has 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.

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

  • Ezek 3:18-21
    4 verses
    75%

    18 When 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.

    19 Yet 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.

    20 Again, 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.

    21 Nevertheless 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.

  • Ps 37:21
    73%

    21 The wicked borrow and do not repay, but the righteous show mercy and give.

  • Ezek 18:5
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    5 But if a man is just and does what is lawful and right,

  • Lev 6:4
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    4 Then it shall be, because he has sinned and is guilty, that he shall restore what he took violently away, or the thing which he has deceitfully obtained, or what was delivered to him to keep, or the lost thing which he found,

  • Isa 33:15
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    15 He who walks righteously, and speaks uprightly; he who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands from holding bribes, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil;

  • Lev 18:5
    72%

    5 You shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, which if a man does, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.

  • Prov 14:32
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    32 The wicked is banished in his wickedness, but the righteous has hope in his death.

  • Exod 22:14
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    14 If a man borrows anything from his neighbor and it is broken or dies, with its owner not being with it, he shall surely make restitution.

  • Ezek 18:32
    71%

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

  • Prov 11:19
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    19 As righteousness leads to life, so he who pursues evil pursues it to his own death.

  • Exod 21:30
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    30 If there is imposed on him a sum of money, then he shall pay to redeem his life whatever is imposed on him.

  • Job 36:6
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    6 He does not preserve the life of the wicked, but gives justice to the poor.

  • Exod 22:12
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    12 If it is stolen from him, he shall make restitution to the owner.

  • Exod 22:1
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    1 If a man steals an ox or a sheep and kills it or sells it, he shall restore five oxen for the ox and four sheep for the sheep.

  • Job 20:18
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    18 That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down; according to his wealth shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice in it.

  • Prov 21:18
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    18 The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.

  • Prov 6:31
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    31 But if he is found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.

  • Job 33:28
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    28 He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.