Ezekiel 18:5
Good News Translation
"Suppose there is a truly good man, righteous and honest.

New Revised Standard Version
If a man is righteous and does what is lawful and right—

Contemporary English Version
Suppose there is a truly good man who always does what is fair and right.

New American Bible
If a man is just—if he does what is right,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And if a man be just, and do judgment and justice,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And if a man be just, and do judgment and justice,

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Psalm 15:2-5 He that walketh without blemish, and worketh justice: . . .

Psalm 24:4-6 The innocent in hands, and clean of heart, who hath not taken his soul in vain, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbour. . . .

Matthew 7:21-27 Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven: but he that doth the will of my Father who is in heaven, he shall enter into the kingdom of heaven. . . .

Romans 2:7-10 To them indeed who, according to patience in good work, seek glory and honour and incorruption, eternal life: . . .

James 1:22-25 But be ye doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. . . .

James 2:14-26 What shall it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but hath not works? Shall faith be able to save him? . . .

1 John 2:3,29 And by this we know that we have known him, if we keep his commandments. . . .

1 John 3:7 Little children, let no man deceive you. He that doth justice is just, even as he is just.

1 John 5:2-5 In this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep his commandments. . . .

Revelation 22:14 Blessed are they that wash their robes in the blood of the Lamb: that they may have a right to the tree of life and may enter in by the gates into the city.

that [heb] judgment and justice

Ezekiel 33:14 And it I shall say to the wicked: Thou shalt surely die: and he do penance for his sin, and do judgment and justice,

Genesis 18:19 For I know that he will command his children, and his household after him, to keep the way of the Lord, and do judgment and justice: that for Abraham's sake, the Lord may bring to effect all the things he hath spoken unto him.

Proverbs 21:3 To do mercy and judgment, pleaseth the Lord more than victims.

Jeremiah 22:15 Shalt thou reign, because thou comparest thyself to the cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and it was then well with him?

Context
A Proverb about Israel
4Behold all souls are mine: as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, the same shall die. 5And if a man be just, and do judgment and justice,6And hath not eaten upon the mountains, nor lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel: and hath not defiled his neighbour's wife, nor come near to a menstruous woman:…
Cross References
Ezekiel 18:4
Behold all souls are mine: as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, the same shall die.

Ezekiel 18:6
And hath not eaten upon the mountains, nor lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel: and hath not defiled his neighbour's wife, nor come near to a menstruous woman:

Ezekiel 18:4
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