Again, when I say to the wicked, “You will surely die;” if he turns from his sin, and does that which is lawful and right; 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 will surely live. He will not die. None of his sins that he has committed will be remembered against him. He has done that which is lawful and right. He will surely live.
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“You, son of man, tell the children of your people, ‘The righteousness of the righteous will not deliver him in the day of his disobedience. And as for the wickedness of the wicked, he will not fall by it in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither will he who is righteous be able to live by it in the day that he sins. When I tell the righteous that he will surely live; if he trusts in his righteousness, and commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered; but he will die in his iniquity that he has committed. Again, when I say to the wicked, “You will surely die;” if he turns from his sin, and does that which is lawful and right; 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 will surely live. He will not die. None of his sins that he has committed will be remembered against him. He has done that which is lawful and right. He will surely live.
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Again, when I say to the wicked, “You will surely die;” if he turns from his sin, and does that which is lawful and right;
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 will surely live. He will not die.
None of his sins that he has committed will be remembered against him. He has done that which is lawful and right. He will surely live.
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Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;
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.
None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.
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Again, when I say unto the wicked: Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;
if the wicked restore the pledge, give back that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
None of his sins that he hath committed shall be remembered against him; he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.
Cross-references (45)
- Ezekiel 18:27 (v14) Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he will save his…
- Ezekiel 20:11 (v15) I gave them my statutes, and showed them my ordinances, which if a man does, he will live in them.
- Luke 19:8 (v15) Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone,…
- Isaiah 43:25 (v16) I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.
- Ezekiel 18:22 (v16) None of his transgressions that he has committed will be remembered against him. In his righteousness that he has done, he shall live.
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- Exodus 22:1-4 (v15) “If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it or sells it, he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. If the thief is…
- Isaiah 55:7 (v14) Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God,…
- Jeremiah 18:7-8 (v14) At the instant I speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it; if that nation,…
- Ezekiel 33:8 (v14) When I tell the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you will surely die,’ and you don’t speak to warn the wicked from his way; that wicked man will die…
- Hosea 14:1 (v14) Israel, return to Yahweh your God; for you have fallen because of your sin.
- Micah 7:18-19 (v16) Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger…
- Leviticus 6:2-5 (v15) “If anyone sins, and commits a trespass against Yahweh, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of…
- Leviticus 18:5 (v15) You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am Yahweh.
- Psalms 119:93 (v15) I will never forget your precepts, for with them, you have revived me.
- Proverbs 28:13 (v14) He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
- Isaiah 1:18 (v16) “Come now, and let’s reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red…
- Isaiah 44:22 (v16) I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.
- Ezekiel 18:7 (v15) and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and…
- Micah 6:8 (v14) He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
- Romans 5:16 (v16) The gift is not as through one who sinned; for the judgment came by one to condemnation, but the free gift came of many trespasses to…
- Exodus 22:26-27 (v15) If you take your neighbor’s garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down, for that is his only covering, it…
- Numbers 5:6-8 (v15) “Speak to the children of Israel: ‘When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit, so as to trespass against Yahweh, and that soul is…
- Deuteronomy 24:6 (v15) No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone as a pledge, for he takes a life in pledge.
- Deuteronomy 24:10-13 (v15) When you lend your neighbor any kind of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge. You shall stand outside, and the man to…
- Deuteronomy 24:17 (v15) You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;
- Job 22:6 (v15) For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
- Job 24:3 (v15) They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
- Job 24:9 (v15) There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,
- Isaiah 3:11 (v14) Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; for the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.
- Jeremiah 4:1 (v14) “If you will return, Israel,” says Yahweh, “if you will return to me, and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight; then you…
- Ezekiel 3:18-19 (v14) When I tell the wicked, ‘You will surely die;’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his…
- Ezekiel 18:12 (v15) has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed…
- Ezekiel 18:16 (v15) hasn’t wronged any, hasn’t taken anything to pledge, hasn’t taken by robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the…
- Ezekiel 18:21 (v14) “But if the wicked turns from all his sins that he has committed, and keeps all my statutes, and does that which is lawful and right, he…
- Ezekiel 18:27-28 (v15) Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he will save his…
- Ezekiel 20:13 (v15) “ ‘ “But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They didn’t walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances, which…
- Ezekiel 20:21 (v15) “ ‘ “But the children rebelled against me. They didn’t walk in my statutes, and didn’t keep my ordinances to do them, which if a man does,…
- Amos 2:8 (v15) and they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who…
- Matthew 9:13 (v14) But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
- Luke 13:3-5 (v14) I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way. Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed…
- Acts 3:19 (v14) “Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the…
- 1 John 2:1-3 (v16) My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ,…
- Revelation 22:12-14 (v15) “Behold, I come quickly. My reward is with me, to repay to each man according to his work. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the…
- Luke 1:6 (v15) They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.
- Romans 5:21 (v16) that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On v14 Hereby he condemneth all them of hypocrisy, which pretend…
Hereby he condemneth all them of hypocrisy, which pretend to forsake wickedness, and yet declare not themselves such by their fruits, that is, in obeying God’s commandments, and by godly life.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv14–16 Eze 33:14 Again, when I say unto the wicked,…
Eze 33:14 Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;
Ver. 14. Thou shalt surely die,] viz., Except thou repent; for that altereth the case. Penitence is almost as good as innocence.
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If he turn from his sin and do.] These two parts make up true repentance.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv14–16 See Eze 18:21.
See Eze 18:21.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv14–16 If the wicked restore the pledge,.... His neighbour's raiment,…
If the wicked restore the pledge,.... His neighbour's raiment, which he has taken as a pledge for money lent him; and which, according to the law, was to be restored before sunset, Exo 22:26 which wicked men did not attend unto; but when such a man is brought to a sense of his wickedness, and repentance for it, as an evidence of it he would restore the pledge:
and give again that he had robbed; to him whom he had robbed; as a thief was obliged to do, four or five fold, according to the law, Exo 22:1, and which, when a man did voluntarily, from the convictions of his own mind, and not by force of the civil magistrate, it was a sign of true repentance; see Luk 19:8,
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and walk in the statutes of life; the rule of life and conversation, and to the keeping of which the promise of long life is annexed; and which preserve persons from dying a shameful death by the hand of the civil magistrate; statutes, which, if a man do, he shall live in them; see Eze 20:11,
without committing iniquity; not living entirely without sin, which the best of men do not; but without committing grosser sins, as before; and without making a trade of sinning, and living in it:
he shall surely live, he shall not die; he shall live comfortably now, and happily hereafter; he shall live a spiritual life, and not die the second death.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On v15 Eze 33:15. If the wicked restore the pledge, give…
Eze 33:15. If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed — It is a necessary condition of obtaining pardon, that men make restitution of what they have unjustly gotten from others. The law is express to this purpose, Lev 6:5, where the offender is required to add a fifth part to the principal, and give it to him to whom it appertaineth; see the note there. To the same purpose is that received rule among the Christian casuists, taken from St. Augustin, Epistle 54., Non dimittitur peccatum, nisi restituatur ablatum. The sin is not forgiven, unless what is taken away be restored. Lord Clarendon’s observations on this subject are peculiarly excellent: “Robbery and violence would be too gainful a trade, if a man might quit all scores by repentance, and detain all he hath gotten; or if the father’s repentance might serve the turn, and the benefit of the transgression be transmitted as an inheritance to the son. If the pledge remained it must be restored; the retaining it is committing a new iniquity, and forfeits any benefit of the promise. If he hath it not, nor is able to procure it, his hearty repentance is enough without reparation: but to enjoy the spoil, and yet to profess repentance, is an affront to God Almighty, and a greater sin than the first act of violence, when he did not pretend to think of God, and so did not think of displeasing him. Whereas now he pretends to reconcile himself to God, and mocks him with repentance, while he retains the fruit of his wickedness. He who is truly penitent restores what he hath left to the person who was deprived of it, and pays the rest in devout sorrow for his trespass.”
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On v15 give again that he had robbed-- (Luk 19:8).
give again that he had robbed-- (Luk 19:8).
statutes of life--in the obeying of which life is promised (Lev 18:5). If the law has failed to give life to man, it has not been the fault of the law, but of man's sinful inability to keep it (Rom 7:10, Rom 7:12; Gal 3:21). It becomes life-giving through Christ's righteous obedience to it (Co2 3:6).
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv14–16 14. Cf. Eze_3:18, Eze_18:27.
14. Cf. Eze_3:18, Eze_18:27.
that which is lawful] Lit. as marg., (just) judgment and justice.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv14–15 Vers. 14, 15. The efficacy of repentance.
Vers. 14, 15. The efficacy of repentance.
If, on the one hand, the prophet was warned that some seemingly righteous, superficially good, would fail, he was encouraged, on the other hand, by the assurance that some wicked persons would, as the result of his admonitions, repent and convert, and would be brought to true and Divine life.
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I THE SEAT OF REPENTANCE. This must be the spiritual nature. The promptings to a better life come from within, from better feelings and better convictions and purposes. Repentance is a change of mind, of heart.
II THE MANIFESTATIONS OF REPENTANCE. These will vary with the previous life, with the special circumstances, the opportunities and position of the convert. In Ver. 15 these practical proofs of repentance are mentioned, and these acts may be taken as examples of the modes in which true repentance will undoubtedly display itself.
III THE REWARD OF REPENTANCE.
1. The evil deeds of the former life shall not be remembered or imputed.
2. The sentence of death shall be cancelled.
3. The penitent and reformed shall live, i.e. in the life of God himself. T.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v14 General Information:
General Information:
Yahweh continues giving Ezekiel his message to the Israelites.
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to the wicked
The nominal adjective "the wicked" can be stated as "the wicked person." AT: "to the wicked person" (See: Nominal Adjectives)
if he restores the loan guarantee
"if he gives back the loan guarantee"
loan guarantee
something a person leaves with another person to show that he will keep his promise to pay back what he has borrowed
makes restitution for what he has stolen
"returns what he has stolen" or "pays back the value of what he stole"
walks in the statutes that give life
Acting or behaving in a certain way is spoken of as if it were walking. AT: "lives according to the laws that give life" (See: Metaphor)
will be called to mind for him
The phrase "call to mind" is an idiom that means to remember. The phrase "will be called" can be stated in active form. AT: "will I think about" or "will I recall" (See: Idiom and Active or Passive)
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