Ezekiel 18:26
New International Version
If a righteous person turns from their righteousness and commits sin, they will die for it; because of the sin they have committed they will die.

New Living Translation
When righteous people turn from their righteous behavior and start doing sinful things, they will die for it. Yes, they will die because of their sinful deeds.

English Standard Version
When a righteous person turns away from his righteousness and does injustice, he shall die for it; for the injustice that he has done he shall die.

Berean Standard Bible
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.

King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, commits iniquity, and dies in it, it is because of the iniquity which he has done that he dies.

New American Standard Bible
When a righteous person turns away from his righteousness, commits injustice and dies because of it, for his injustice which he has committed he dies.

NASB 1995
“When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, commits iniquity and dies because of it, for his iniquity which he has committed he will die.

NASB 1977
“When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, commits iniquity, and dies because of it, for his iniquity which he has committed he will die.

Legacy Standard Bible
When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, does injustice, and dies because of it, for his injustice which he has done he will die.

Amplified Bible
When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits sin and dies because of it, it is for his sin which he has committed that he dies.

Christian Standard Bible
When a righteous person turns from his righteousness and acts unjustly, he will die for this. He will die because of the injustice he has committed.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
When a righteous person turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity, he will die for this. He will die because of the iniquity he has practiced.

American Standard Version
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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And if the righteous will turn from his righteousness, and he will do evil, in the evil that he did he shall die

Brenton Septuagint Translation
When the righteous turns away from his righteousness and commits a trespass, and dies in the trespass he has committed, he shall even die in it.

Contemporary English Version
If good people start doing evil, they must be put to death, because they have sinned.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For when the just turneth himself away from his justice, and committeth iniquity, he shall die therein: in the injustice that he hath wrought he shall die.

English Revised Version
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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
When a righteous person turns away from doing right and does evil things, he will die. He will die because of the evil things he has done.

Good News Translation
When a righteous person stops doing good and starts doing evil and then dies, he dies because of the evil he has done.

International Standard Version
"When a righteous person turns from his righteous deeds and does evil, he'll die because of that evil. He'll die because of his unrighteous acts that he committed.

JPS Tanakh 1917
When the righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall die therefor; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.

Literal Standard Version
In the turning back of the righteous from his righteousness, | And he has done perversity, | And he is dying by them, | He dies for his perversity that he has done.

Majority Standard Bible
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.

New American Bible
When the just turn away from justice to do evil and die, on account of the evil they did they must die.

NET Bible
When a righteous person turns back from his righteousness and practices wrongdoing, he will die for it; because of the wrongdoing he has done, he will die.

New Revised Standard Version
When the righteous turn away from their righteousness and commit iniquity, they shall die for it; for the iniquity that they have committed they shall die.

New Heart English Bible
When the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies in it; in his iniquity that he has done shall he die.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

World English Bible
When the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies in it, then he dies in his iniquity that he has done.

Young's Literal Translation
In the turning back of the righteous from his righteousness, And he hath done perversity, And he is dying by them, for his perversity That he hath done he dieth.

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Context
The Soul who Sins will Die
25Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Hear now, O house of Israel: Is it My way that is unjust? Is it not your ways that are unjust? 26If 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. 27But if a wicked man turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will save his life.…

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 18:25
Yet you say, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' Hear now, O house of Israel: Is it My way that is unjust? Is it not your ways that are unjust?

Ezekiel 18:27
But if a wicked man turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will save his life.

Ezekiel 33:13
If I tell the righteous man that he will surely live, but he then trusts in his righteousness and commits iniquity, then none of his righteous works will be remembered; he will die because of the iniquity he has committed.


Treasury of Scripture

When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies in them; for his iniquity that he has done shall he die.

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Ezekiel 18
1. God defends his justice
31. and exhorts to repentance














Verses 26-29. - The equity of the Divine judgments is asserted, as before, by fresh iteration rather than by new arguments. In a discourse delivered, as this probably was, orally, it was necessary, so to speak, to hammer in the truth upon men's minds so that it might be driven home and do its work.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
When a righteous man
צַדִּ֧יק (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
מִצִּדְקָת֛וֹ (miṣ·ṣiḏ·qā·ṯōw)
Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 6666: Rightness, subjectively, objectively

and practices
וְעָ֥שָׂה (wə·‘ā·śāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6213: To do, make

iniquity,
עָ֖וֶל (‘ā·wel)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5766: Injustice, unrighteousness

he will die
וּמֵ֣ת (ū·mêṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 4191: To die, to kill

for this.
עֲלֵיהֶ֑ם (‘ă·lê·hem)
Preposition | third person masculine plural
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

He will die
יָמֽוּת׃ (yā·mūṯ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 4191: To die, to kill

because of the iniquity
בְּעַוְל֥וֹ (bə·‘aw·lōw)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5766: Injustice, unrighteousness

he has committed.
עָשָׂ֖ה (‘ā·śāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6213: To do, make


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