Ezekiel 3:21
Good News Translation
If you do warn a good man not to sin and he listens to you and doesn't sin, he will stay alive, and your life will also be spared."

New Revised Standard Version
If, however, you warn the righteous not to sin, and they do not sin, they shall surely live, because they took warning; and you will have saved your life.

Contemporary English Version
But if you do warn them, and they listen to you and stop sinning, I will let them live. And you will be innocent.

New American Bible
If, on the other hand, you warn the just to avoid sin, and they do not sin, they will surely live because of the warning, and you in turn shall save your own life.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But if thou warn the just man, that the just may not sin, and he doth not sin: living he shall live, because thou hast warned him, and thou hast delivered thy soul.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But if thou warn the just man, that the just may not sin, and he doth not sin: living he shall live, because thou hast warned him, and thou hast delivered thy soul.

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Matthew 24:24,25 For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets and shall shew great signs and wonders, insomuch as to deceive (if possible) even the elect. . . .

Acts 20:31 Therefore watch, keeping in memory that for three years I ceased not with tears to admonish every one of you, night and day.

1 Corinthians 4:14 I write not these things to confound you: but I admonish you as my dearest children.

1 Corinthians 10:12 Wherefore, he that thinketh himself to stand, let him take heed lest he fall.

Galatians 1:6-10 I wonder that you are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ, unto another gospel. . . .

Galatians 5:2-7 Behold, I Paul tell you, that if you be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. . . .

Ephesians 4:17-21 This then I say and testify in the Lord: That henceforward you walk not as also the Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind: . . .

Ephesians 5:5,6 For know you this and understand: That no fornicator or unclean or covetous person (which is a serving of idols) hath inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. . . .

Colossians 1:28 Whom we preach, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.

Colossians 3:5-8 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, lust, evil concupiscence and covetousness, which is the service of idols. . . .

1 Thessalonians 4:6-8 And that no man overreach nor circumvent his brother in business: because the Lord is the avenger of all these things, as we have told you before and have testified. . . .

1 Thessalonians 5:14 And we beseech you, brethren, rebuke the unquiet: comfort the feeble minded: support the weak: be patient towards all men.

Titus 2:15 These things speak and exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.

1 John 3:6-9 Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: and whosoever sinneth hath not seen him nor known him. . . .

Revelation 3:19 Such as I love, I rebuke and chastise. Be zealous therefore and do penance.

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Ezekiel 3:20 Moreover if the just man shall turn away from his justice, and shall commit iniquity: I will lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die, because thou hast not given him warning: he shall die in his sin, and his justices which he hath done, shall not be remembered: but I will require his blood at thy hand.

Psalm 19:11 For thy servant keepeth them, and in keeping them there is a great reward.

Proverbs 9:9 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is prudence.

Proverbs 17:10 A reproof availeth more with a wise man, than a hundred stripes with a fool.

Galatians 2:11-13 But when Cephas was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. . . .

James 5:20 He must know that he who causeth a sinner to be converted from the error of his way shall save his soul from death and shall cover a multitude of sins.

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Ezekiel 3:19 But if thou give warning to the wicked, and he be not converted from his wickedness, and from his evil way: he indeed shall die in his iniquity, but thou hast delivered thy soul.

1 Timothy 4:16 Take heed to thyself and to doctrine: be earnest in them. For in doing this thou shalt both save thyself and them that hear thee.

Context
A Watchman for Israel
20Moreover if the just man shall turn away from his justice, and shall commit iniquity: I will lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die, because thou hast not given him warning: he shall die in his sin, and his justices which he hath done, shall not be remembered: but I will require his blood at thy hand. 21But if thou warn the just man, that the just may not sin, and he doth not sin: living he shall live, because thou hast warned him, and thou hast delivered thy soul.22And the hand of the Lord was upon me, and he said to me: Rise and go forth into the plain, and there I will speak to thee.…
Cross References
Acts 20:31
Therefore watch, keeping in memory that for three years I ceased not with tears to admonish every one of you, night and day.

Ezekiel 33:9
But if thou tell the wicked man, that he may be converted from his ways, and he be not converted from his way he shall die in his iniquity: but thou hast delivered thy soul.

Ezekiel 3:20
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