Ezekiel 18:26 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁶ 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity and dies in his sins, for his iniquity that he has done he shall die.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ 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.

Common English Bible

²⁶ When those who do the right thing turn from their responsible ways and act maliciously, they will die because of it. For their malicious acts they will die.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ For when the just man turns himself away from his justice, and commits iniquity, he shall die by this; by the injustice that he has worked, he shall die.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ 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.

Ezekiel 18:26 Cross References

Proverbs 2:13

who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,

Ezekiel 18:18

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.

Ezekiel 18:24

But when the righteous turn away from their righteousness and commit iniquity and do the same abominable things that the wicked do, shall they live? None of the righteous deeds that they have done shall be remembered, for the treachery of which they are guilty and the sin they have committed, they shall die.

Ezekiel 18:25

Yet you say, “The way of the Lord is unfair.” Hear now, O house of Israel: Is my way unfair? Is it not your ways that are unfair?

Ezekiel 18:27

Again, when the wicked turn away from the wickedness they have committed and do what is lawful and right, they shall save their life.

Ezekiel 3:20

Again, if the righteous turn from their righteousness and commit iniquity and I lay a stumbling block before them, they shall die; because you have not warned them, they shall die for their sin, and their righteous deeds that they have done shall not be remembered, but their blood I will require at your hand.

Ezekiel 33:13

Though I say to the righteous that they shall surely live, yet if they trust in their righteousness and commit iniquity, none of their righteous deeds shall be remembered, but in the iniquity that they have committed they shall die.

Ezekiel 33:18

When the righteous turn from their righteousness and commit iniquity, they shall die for it.

Leviticus 6:7

The priest shall make atonement on your behalf before the Lord, and you shall be forgiven for any of the things that one may do and incur guilt thereby.”

Colossians 1:23

provided that you continue securely established and steadfast in the faith, without shifting from the hope promised by the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven. I, Paul, became a minister of this gospel.

1 John 5:17

All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that is not deadly.