Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version If a righteous person turns from their righteousness and does evil, they will die for it. New Living Translation For again I say, when righteous people turn away from their righteous behavior and turn to evil, they will die. English Standard Version When the righteous turns from his righteousness and does injustice, he shall die for it. Berean Standard Bible If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he will die for it. King James Bible When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby. New King James Version When the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he shall die because of it. New American Standard Bible When the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits injustice, then he shall die in it. NASB 1995 “When the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, then he shall die in it. NASB 1977 “When the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, then he shall die in it. Legacy Standard Bible When the righteous turns from his righteousness and does iniquity, then he shall die in it. Amplified Bible When the righteous turns back from his righteousness and commits injustice, he will also die because of it. Christian Standard Bible When a righteous person turns from his righteousness and commits injustice, he will die for it. Holman Christian Standard Bible When a righteous person turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he will die on account of this. American Standard Version When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die therein. Contemporary English Version If good people start doing evil, they will be put to death, because they have sinned. English Revised Version When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die therein. GOD'S WORD® Translation If the righteous person turns from the right things that he has done and does evil, he will die because of it. Good News Translation When someone righteous stops doing good and starts doing evil, he will die for it. International Standard Version When a righteous man forsakes his own righteousness and commits evil acts, he will die because of those acts, Majority Standard Bible If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he will die for it. 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 in it. Webster's Bible Translation 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 will even die therein. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionIn the turning back of the righteous from his righteousness, "" And he has done perversity—he dies for it. Young's Literal Translation In the turning back of the righteous from his righteousness, And he hath done perversity -- he dieth for it. Smith's Literal Translation In the turning back of the just from his justice and doing iniquity, he shall die in them. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleFor when the just shall depart from his justice, and commit iniquities, he shall die in them. Catholic Public Domain Version For when the just man will have withdraw from his justice, and committed iniquities, he shall die by these. New American Bible When the just turn away from justice and do wrong, they shall die for it. New Revised Standard Version When the righteous turn from their righteousness, and commit iniquity, they shall die for it. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleWhen a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he shall die in his iniquity. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated And when the righteous will turn from his righteousness and he will do evil, in his evil he shall die OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby. Brenton Septuagint Translation When the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and shall commit iniquities, then shall he die in them. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Message of the Watchman…17Yet your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But it is their way that is not just. 18If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he will die for it. 19But if a wicked man turns from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he will live because of this.… Cross References Ezekiel 18:24 But if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity, committing the same abominations as the wicked, will he live? None of the righteous acts he did will be remembered. Because of the unfaithfulness and sin he has committed, he will die. Ezekiel 18:26 If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity, he will die for this. He will die because of the iniquity he has committed. Ezekiel 3:20 Now if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I put a stumbling block before him, he will die. If you did not warn him, he will die in his sin, and the righteous acts he did will not be remembered. And I will hold you responsible for his blood. Hebrews 10:38-39 But My righteous one will live by faith; and if he shrinks back, I will take no pleasure in him.” / But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls. 2 Peter 2:20-22 If indeed they have escaped the corruption of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, only to be entangled and overcome by it again, their final condition is worse than it was at first. / It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than to have known it and then to turn away from the holy commandment passed on to them. / Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.” Matthew 24:13 But the one who perseveres to the end will be saved. Galatians 5:4 You who are trying to be justified by the law have been severed from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. Romans 11:22 Take notice, therefore, of the kindness and severity of God: severity to those who fell, but kindness to you, if you continue in His kindness. Otherwise you also will be cut off. Hebrews 6:4-6 It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, / who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age— / and then have fallen away—to be restored to repentance, because they themselves are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting Him to open shame. 1 Corinthians 10:12 So the one who thinks he is standing firm should be careful not to fall. James 5:19-20 My brothers, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring him back, / consider this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and cover over a multitude of sins. Luke 9:62 Then Jesus declared, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and then looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.” John 15:6 If anyone does not remain in Me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers. Such branches are gathered up, thrown into the fire, and burned. 1 John 2:19 They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of them belonged to us. Revelation 2:5 Therefore, keep in mind how far you have fallen. Repent and perform the deeds you did at first. But if you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place. Treasury of Scripture When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die thereby. Ezekiel 33:12,13 Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth… Ezekiel 18:26,27 When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die… 2 Peter 2:20-22 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning… Jump to Previous Commits Committeth Death Die Dieth Evil Iniquity Overtake Perversity Righteous Righteousness Thereby Therein Turneth Turning Turns Upright WrongJump to Next Commits Committeth Death Die Dieth Evil Iniquity Overtake Perversity Righteous Righteousness Thereby Therein Turneth Turning Turns Upright WrongEzekiel 33 1. According to the duty of a watchman in warning the people7. Ezekiel is admonished of his duty 10. God shows the justice of his ways toward the penitent and toward revolters 17. He maintains his justice 21. Upon the news of the taking of Jerusalem 25. he prophecies the desolation of the land 30. God's judgment upon the mockers of the prophets If a righteous man turns from his righteousness This phrase highlights the conditional nature of righteousness in the biblical context. The Hebrew word for "righteous" is "צַדִּיק" (tzaddik), which implies someone who is just or lawful. In the ancient Near Eastern context, righteousness was not merely a personal moral quality but a relational one, involving faithfulness to God's covenant. The phrase suggests that righteousness is not a static state but requires continual faithfulness and obedience. The idea of turning away indicates a deliberate choice, emphasizing human free will and responsibility. and commits iniquity he will die for it Hebrew If a righteous manצַדִּ֥יק (ṣad·dîq) Adjective - masculine singular Strong's 6662: Just, righteous turns בְּשׁוּב־ (bə·šūḇ-) Preposition-b | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct Strong's 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again from his righteousness מִצִּדְקָת֖וֹ (miṣ·ṣiḏ·qā·ṯōw) Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular Strong's 6666: Rightness, subjectively, objectively and commits וְעָ֣שָׂה (wə·‘ā·śāh) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 6213: To do, make iniquity, עָ֑וֶל (‘ā·wel) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 5766: Injustice, unrighteousness he will die וּמֵ֖ת (ū·mêṯ) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 4191: To die, to kill for it. בָּהֶֽם׃ (bā·hem) Preposition | third person masculine plural Strong's Hebrew Links Ezekiel 33:18 NIVEzekiel 33:18 NLT Ezekiel 33:18 ESV Ezekiel 33:18 NASB Ezekiel 33:18 KJV Ezekiel 33:18 BibleApps.com Ezekiel 33:18 Biblia Paralela Ezekiel 33:18 Chinese Bible Ezekiel 33:18 French Bible Ezekiel 33:18 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Ezekiel 33:18 When the righteous turns from his righteousness (Ezek. 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