but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die.”
Ezekiel 33:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 If I say to the wicked, “O wicked ones, you shall surely die,” and you do not speak to warn the wicked to turn from their ways, the wicked shall die in their iniquity, but their blood I will require at your hand. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition When I say to the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die, and you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his perversity and iniquity, but his blood will I require at your hand. American Standard Version (1901) When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die, and thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way; that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at thy hand. Common English Bible If I pronounce a death sentence on wicked people, and you don’t warn them to turn from their way, they will die in their guilt, but I will hold you responsible for their blood. Catholic Public Domain Version When I say to the impious, 'O impious man, you will die a death,' if you have not spoken so that the impious man will keep himself from his way, then that impious man will die in his iniquity. But I will attribute his blood to your hand. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version When I say to the wicked: O wicked man, thou shalt surely die: if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked man from his way: that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at thy hand. |
but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die.”
Be assured, the wicked will not go unpunished, but those who are righteous will escape.
but it will not be well with the wicked, neither will they prolong their days like a shadow, because they do not stand in fear before God.
Woe to the guilty! How unfortunate they are, for what their hands have done shall be done to them.
As for his father, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother, and did what is not good among his people, he died for his iniquity.
The person who sins shall die. A child shall not suffer for the iniquity of a parent nor a parent suffer for the iniquity of a child; the righteousness of the righteous shall be their own, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be their own.
Know that all lives are mine; the life of the parent as well as the life of the child is mine: it is only the person who sins who shall die.
When I say to the wicked, “You shall surely die,” and you give them no warning and do not speak to warn the wicked from their wicked way in order to save their lives, those wicked persons shall die for their iniquity, but their blood I will require at your hand.
Again, though I say to the wicked, “You shall surely die,” yet if they turn from their sin and do what is lawful and right—
But if the sentinel sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet so that the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any of them, they are taken away in their iniquity, but their blood I will require at the sentinel’s hand.
“Our father died in the wilderness; he was not among the congregation of those who gathered themselves together against the Lord in the congregation of Korah but died for his own sin, and he had no sons.