Ezekiel 18:27

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And in the turning back of the wicked From his wickedness that he hath done, And he doth judgment and righteousness, He his soul doth keep alive.

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 1:18 : 18 Come, I pray you, and we reason, saith Jehovah, If your sins are as scarlet, as snow they shall be white, If they are red as crimson, as wool they shall be!
  • Isa 55:7 : 7 Forsake doth the wicked his way, And the man of iniquity his thoughts, And he returneth to Jehovah, and He pitieth him, And unto our God for He multiplieth to pardon.
  • Ezek 18:21 : 21 And the wicked -- when he turneth back From all his sins that he hath done, And he hath kept all My statutes, And hath done judgment and righteousness, He doth surely live, he doth not die.
  • Ezek 33:5 : 5 The voice of the trumpet he heard, And he hath not taken warning, his blood is on him, And he who took warning his soul hath delivered.
  • Matt 9:13 : 13 but having gone, learn ye what is, Kindness I will, and not sacrifice, for I did not come to call righteous men, but sinners, to reformation.'
  • Matt 21:28-32 : 28 `And what think ye? A man had two children, and having come to the first, he said, Child, go, to-day be working in my vineyard.' 29 And he answering said, `I will not,' but at last, having repented, he went. 30 `And having come to the second, he said in the same manner, and he answering said, I `go', sir, and went not; 31 which of the two did the will of the father?' They say to him, `The first.' Jesus saith to them, `Verily I say to you, that the tax-gatherers and the harlots do go before you into the reign of God, 32 for John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye did not believe him, and the tax-gatherers and the harlots did believe him, and ye, having seen, repented not at last -- to believe him.
  • Acts 2:40 : 40 Also with many more other words he was testifying and exhorting, saying, `Be saved from this perverse generation;'
  • Acts 3:19 : 19 reform ye, therefore, and turn back, for your sins being blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,
  • Acts 20:21 : 21 testifying fully both to Jews and Greeks, toward God reformation, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • Acts 26:20 : 20 but to those in Damascus first, and to those in Jerusalem, to all the region also of Judea, and to the nations, I was preaching to reform, and to turn back unto God, doing works worthy of reformation;
  • 1 Tim 4:16 : 16 take heed to thyself, and to the teaching; remain in them, for this thing doing, both thyself thou shalt save, and those hearing thee.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Ezek 33:18-19
    2 verses
    89%

    18 In the turning back of the righteous from his righteousness, And he hath done perversity -- he dieth for it.

    19 And in the turning back of the wicked from his wickedness, And he hath done judgment and righteousness, by them he liveth.

  • Ezek 18:17-24
    8 verses
    87%

    17 From the afflicted he hath turned back his hand, Usury and increase he hath not taken, My judgments he hath done, In My statutes he hath walked, He doth not die for the iniquity of his father, He doth surely live.

    18 His father -- because he used oppression, Did violently Plunder a brother, And that which `is' not good did in the midst of his people, And lo, he is dying in his iniquity.

    19 And ye have said, Wherefore hath not the son, Borne of the iniquity of the father? And -- the son judgment and righteousness hath done, All My statutes he hath kept, And he doeth them, he surely liveth.

    20 The soul that doth sin -- it doth die. A son doth not bear of the iniquity of the father, And a father doth not bear of the iniquity of the son, The righteousness of the righteous is on him, And the wickedness of the wicked is on him.

    21 And the wicked -- when he turneth back From all his sins that he hath done, And he hath kept all My statutes, And hath done judgment and righteousness, He doth surely live, he doth not die.

    22 All his transgressions that he hath done Are not remembered to him, In his righteousness that he hath done he liveth.

    23 Do I at all desire the death of the wicked? An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Is it not in his turning back from his way -- And he hath lived?

    24 And in the turning back of the righteous from his righteousness, And he hath done perversity, According to all the abominations That the wicked hath done, he doth -- thus he liveth, All his righteousnesses that he hath done are not remembered, For his trespass that he hath trespassed, And for his sin that he hath sinned, For them he doth die.

  • Ezek 18:28
    86%

    28 And he seeth and turneth back, From all his transgressions that he hath done, He doth surely live, he doth not die,

  • Ezek 33:11-16
    6 verses
    86%

    11 Say unto them, I live -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, I delight not in the death of the wicked, But -- in the turning of the wicked from his way, And he hath lived, Turn back, turn back, from your evil ways, Yea, why do ye die, O house of Israel?

    12 And thou, son of man, say unto the sons of thy people: The righteousness of the righteous doth not deliver him in the day of his transgression, And the wickedness of the wicked, He doth not stumble for it in the day of his turning from his wickedness, And the righteous is not able to live in it in the day of his sinning.

    13 In My saying of the righteous: He surely liveth, And -- he hath trusted on his righteousness, And he hath done perversity, All his righteous acts are not remembered, And for his perversity that he hath done, For it he doth die.

    14 And in My saying to the wicked: Thou surely diest, And -- he hath turned back from his sin, And hath done judgment and righteousness,

    15 (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.

    16 None of his sin that he hath sinned is remembered to him, Judgment and righteousness he hath done, He doth surely live.

  • Ezek 18:26
    85%

    26 In the turning back of the righteous from his righteousness, And he hath done perversity, And he is dying by them, for his perversity That he hath done he dieth.

  • Ezek 3:18-21
    4 verses
    79%

    18 In My saying to the wicked: Thou dost surely die; and thou hast not warned him, nor hast spoken to warn the wicked from his wicked way, so that he doth live; he -- the wicked -- in his iniquity dieth, and his blood from thy hand I require.

    19 And thou, because thou hast warned the wicked, and he hath not turned back from his wickedness, and from his wicked way, he in his iniquity dieth, and thou thy soul hast delivered.

    20 `And in the turning back of the righteous from his righteousness, and he hath done perversity, and I have put a stumbling-block before him, he dieth; because thou hast not warned him, in his sin he dieth, and not remembered is his righteousness that he hath done, and his blood from thy hand I require.

    21 And thou, because thou hast warned him -- the righteous -- that the righteous sin not, and he hath not sinned, he surely liveth, because he hath been warned; and thou thy soul hast delivered.'

  • Ezek 33:8-9
    2 verses
    76%

    8 In My saying to the wicked, O wicked one -- thou dost surely die, And thou hast not spoken to warn the wicked from his way, He -- the wicked -- in his iniquity doth die, And his blood from thy hand I require.

    9 And thou, when thou hast warned the wicked of his way, to turn back from it, And he hath not turned back from his way, He in his iniquity doth die, And thou thy soul hast delivered.

  • Ezek 18:5
    76%

    5 And a man, when he is righteous, And hath done judgment and righteousness,

  • Ezek 18:9
    74%

    9 In My statutes he doth walk, And My judgments he hath kept -- to deal truly, Righteous `is' he, he surely liveth, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

  • Jas 5:20
    74%

    20 let him know that he who did turn back a sinner from the straying of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.

  • Job 33:27-28
    2 verses
    73%

    27 He looketh on men, and saith, `I sinned, And uprightness I have perverted, And it hath not been profitable to me.

    28 He hath ransomed my soul From going over into the pit, And my life on the light looketh.'

  • Ezek 18:31-32
    2 verses
    73%

    31 Cast from off you all your transgressions, By which ye have transgressed, And make to you a new heart, and a new spirit, And why do ye die, O house of Israel?

    32 For I have no pleasure in the death of the dying, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And turn ye back and live!

  • Prov 16:17
    72%

    17 A highway of the upright `is', `Turn from evil,' Whoso is preserving his soul is watching his way.

  • Prov 11:18-19
    2 verses
    72%

    18 The wicked is getting a lying wage, And whoso is sowing righteousness -- a true reward.

    19 Rightly `is' righteousness for life, And whoso is pursuing evil -- for his own death.

  • Prov 13:6
    72%

    6 Righteousness keepeth him who is perfect in the way, And wickedness overthroweth a sin offering.

  • Prov 14:32
    72%

    32 In his wickedness is the wicked driven away, And trustful in his death `is' the righteous.

  • Prov 11:8
    72%

    8 The righteous from distress is drawn out, And the wicked goeth in instead of him.

  • Prov 21:18
    71%

    18 The wicked `is' an atonement for the righteous, And for the upright the treacherous dealer.

  • Prov 28:18
    71%

    18 Whoso is walking uprightly is saved, And the perverted of ways falleth at once.

  • Job 33:18
    71%

    18 He keepeth back his soul from corruption, And his life from passing away by a dart.

  • Ps 37:27
    71%

    27 Turn aside from evil, and do good, and dwell to the age.

  • Isa 55:7
    71%

    7 Forsake doth the wicked his way, And the man of iniquity his thoughts, And he returneth to Jehovah, and He pitieth him, And unto our God for He multiplieth to pardon.

  • Prov 10:16
    70%

    16 The wage of the righteous `is' for life, The increase of the wicked for sin.

  • Ezek 18:14
    70%

    14 And -- lo, he hath begotten a son, And he seeth all the sins of his father, That he hath done, and he feareth, And doth not do like them,

  • Prov 19:16
    70%

    16 Whoso is keeping the command is keeping his soul, Whoso is despising His ways dieth.

  • Prov 11:5-6
    2 verses
    70%

    5 The righteousness of the perfect maketh right his way, And by his wickedness doth the wicked fall.

    6 The righteousness of the upright delivereth them, And in mischief the treacherous are captured.

  • Prov 24:16
    70%

    16 For seven `times' doth the righteous fall and rise, And the wicked stumble in evil.

  • Prov 29:6
    69%

    6 In the transgression of the evil `is' a snare, And the righteous doth sing and rejoice.

  • Prov 28:28
    69%

    28 In the rising of the wicked a man is hidden, And in their destruction the righteous multiply!