Ezekiel 33:18

Ezekiel 33:18 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby.
• New International Version (NIV)If a righteous person turns from their righteousness and does evil, they will die for it.
• English Standard Version (ESV)When the righteous turns from his righteousness and does injustice, he shall die for it.
• New King James Version (NKJV)When the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he shall die because of it.

Context of Ezekiel 33:18

16None of his sins that he has committed will be remembered against him. He has practiced justice and righteousness; he shall certainly live. 17“Yet your fellow citizens say, ‘The way of the Lord is not right,’ when it is their own way that is not right. When the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits injustice, then he shall die in it. 19But when the wicked turns from his wickedness and practices justice and righteousness, he will live by them. 20Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not right.’ I will judge each of you according to his ways, house of Israel.”

Ezekiel 33:18 word by word

בְּשׁוּב־צַדִּ֥יק מִצִּדְקָת֖וֹ וְעָ֣שָׂה עָ֑וֶל וּמֵ֖ת בָּהֶֽם׃Read the interlinear

• When the righteousצַדִּיקtsaddîyq · righteousH6662
• turnsשׁוּבshûb · to return: repentH7725
• from his righteousnessצְדָקָהtsedâqâh · righteousnessH6666
• commitsעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to make: doH6213
• injusticeעָ֫וֶל‛evel ‛âvel ‛avlâh ‛ôlâh ‛ôlâh · injusticeH5766
• then he shall dieמוּתmûth · to dieH4191

Cross-references for Ezekiel 33:18

• Ezekiel 33:12And you, son of man, say to your fellow citizens, ‘The righteousness of a righteous one will not save him on the day of his offense, and as for the wickedness of a wicked one, he will not stumble because of it on the day when he turns from his wickedness; whereas a righteous one will not be able to live by his righteousness on the day when he commits sin.’
• Ezekiel 18:26When a righteous person turns away from his righteousness, commits injustice and dies because of it, for his injustice which he has committed he dies.
• 2 Peter 2:20For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
• Hebrews 10:38But My righteous one will live by faith; And if he shrinks back, My soul has no pleasure in him.

Commentaries on Ezekiel 33:18

• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 10-20Verses 10-20 Those who despaired of finding mercy with God, are answered with a solemn declaration of God's readiness to show mercy. The ruin of the city and state was determined, but that did not relate to the final state of persons. God says to the righteous, that he shall surely live. But many who have made profession, have been ruined by proud confidence in themselves. Man trusts to his own righteousness, and presuming on his own sufficiency, he is…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 17-20The way of the Lord is not just: People thought it was wrong for God to use Babylon to destroy Jerusalem. The Lord quickly corrected this idea (Ezekiel 33:18). their way that is not just: The people's mistake was refusing to repent and accusing God of being unjust. I will judge each of you according to his ways: The Lord's judgment is never random but matches their sins. If they repent, trust the Lord for salvation, and act justly and rightly, they have…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-33Heretofore his functions had been chiefly threatening; from this point, after the evil had got to its worst in the overthrow of Jerusalem, the consolatory element preponderates. 2. to the children of thy people--whom he had been forbidden to address from Eze 24:26, 27, till Jerusalem was overthrown, and the "escaped" came with tidings of the judgment being completed. So now, in Eze 33:21, the tidings of the fact having arrived, he opens his heretofore…Read the comment

Topics related to Ezekiel 33:18

• Apostasy
• Backsliders
• Blasphemy
• Condescension of God
• God Continued...
• Judgment
• Responsibility
• Wicked (People)
• Works

In the dictionaries

• Ezekiel, Book of
• Turn
• Ezekiel
• Prophecy; Prophets
• Resurrection
• Salvation
• Teach; Teacher; Teaching

Commentaries on Ezekiel 33

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings