Parallel Verses
Amplified
When the righteous turns back from his righteousness and commits injustice, he will also die because of it.
New American Standard Bible
When the righteous turns from his righteousness and
King James Version
When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby.
Holman Bible
When a righteous person turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he will die on account of this.
International Standard Version
When a righteous man forsakes his own righteousness and commits evil acts, he will die because of those acts,
A Conservative Version
When the righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die in it.
American Standard Version
When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die therein.
Bible in Basic English
When the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, death will overtake him in it.
Darby Translation
When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and doeth what is wrong, then he shall die therein.
Julia Smith Translation
In the turning back of the just from his justice and doing iniquity, he shall die in them.
King James 2000
When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die for it.
Lexham Expanded Bible
When [the] righteous turns from his righteousness and does injustice, then he will die {because of it}.
Modern King James verseion
When the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he shall even die by them.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and doeth the thing that is wicked, he shall die therefore.
NET Bible
When a righteous man turns from his godliness and commits iniquity, he will die for it.
New Heart English Bible
When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die therein.
The Emphasized Bible
When the righteous man shall turn from his righteousness and commit perversity Then shall he die for them;
Webster
When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, for that he shall even die.
World English Bible
When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die therein.
Youngs Literal Translation
In the turning back of the righteous from his righteousness, And he hath done perversity -- he dieth for it.
Themes
Condescension of God » Expostulates with backsliding israel
Repentance » The reward for repenting
Turning » Those that turn from righteousness
Interlinear
Shuwb
Ts@daqah
`evel
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ezekiel 33:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Ezekiel Appointed As A Watchman And His Responsibility
17 “Yet your people [who are in exile in Babylon] say, ‘The way of the Lord is not right;’ but as for them, it is their own way that is not right. 18 When the righteous turns back from his righteousness and commits injustice, he will also die because of it. 19 But when a wicked man turns back from his wickedness and practices what is just (fair) and right, he will live because of it.
Phrases
Cross References
Ezekiel 33:12-13
And you, son of man, say to the sons of your people, ‘The righteousness of the righteous man will not save him in the day of his transgression; and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he will not stagger because of it in the day that he turns from his wickedness, whereas a righteous man will not be able to live because of his [previous acts of] righteousness on the day when he commits sin.’
Ezekiel 3:20
Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness (right standing with God) and sins, and I place an obstacle before him, he will die; since you have not warned him, he will die in his sin, and the righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered; but you will be responsible for his blood.
Ezekiel 18:26-27
When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits sin and dies because of it, it is for his sin which he has committed that he dies.
Hebrews 10:38
But My righteous one [the one justified by faith] shall live by faith [respecting man’s relationship to God and trusting Him];
And if he draws back [shrinking in fear], My soul has no delight in him.
2 Peter 2:20-22
For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world by [personal] knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, their last condition has become worse for them than the first.