Parallel Verses

American Standard Version

When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die therein.

New American Standard Bible

When the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, then he shall die in it.

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.

Amplified

When the righteous turns back from his righteousness and commits injustice, he will also die because of it.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
צדּיק 
Tsaddiyq 
Usage: 206

שׁוּב 
Shuwb 
Usage: 1058

עלה עולה עולה עול עול 
`evel 
Usage: 53

מוּת 
Muwth 
Usage: 839

Verse Info

Context Readings

Ezekiel Appointed As A Watchman And His Responsibility

17 Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal. 18 When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die therein. 19 And when the wicked turneth from his wickedness, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.

Cross References

Ezekiel 33:12-13

And 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; and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall he that is righteous be able to live thereby in the day that he sinneth.

Ezekiel 3:20

Again, when a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thy hand.

Ezekiel 18:26-27

When the righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth therein; in his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.

Hebrews 10:38

But my righteous one shall live by faith: And if he shrink back, my soul hath no pleasure in him.

2 Peter 2:20-22

For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state is become worse with them than the first.

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