Ezekiel 3:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²¹ If, however, you warn the righteous not to sin and they do not sin, they shall surely live because they took warning, and you will have saved your life.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man not to sin and he does not sin, he shall surely live because he is warned; also you have delivered yourself from guilt.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he took warning; and thou hast delivered thy soul.

Common English Bible

²¹ But if you do warn the righteous not to sin, and they don’t sin, they will be declared righteous. Their lives will be preserved because they heeded the warning, and you will save your life.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ But if you announce to the just man, so that the just man may not sin, and he does not sin, then he shall certainly live, because you have announced to him. And you will have delivered your own soul."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ But if thou warn the just man, that the just may not sin, and he doth not sin: living he shall live because thou hast warned him, and thou hast delivered thy soul.

Ezekiel 3:21 Cross References

Psalm 19:11

Moreover, by them is your servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward.

Proverbs 17:10

A rebuke strikes deeper into a discerning person than a hundred blows into a fool.

Proverbs 9:9

Give instruction to the wise, and they will become wiser still; teach the righteous, and they will gain in learning.

Ezekiel 33:9

But if you warn the wicked to turn from their ways and they do not turn from their ways, the wicked shall die in their iniquity, but you will have saved your life.

Acts 20:31

Therefore be alert, remembering that for three years I did not cease night or day to warn everyone with tears.

1 Corinthians 10:12

So if you think you are standing, watch out that you do not fall.

1 Corinthians 4:14

I am not writing this to make you ashamed but to admonish you as my beloved children.

Colossians 1:28

It is he whom we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone in all wisdom, so that we may present everyone mature in Christ.

1 Thessalonians 5:14

And we urge you, brothers and sisters, to admonish the idlers, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with all of them.

1 Timothy 4:16

Pay close attention to yourself and to your teaching; continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and your hearers.

Titus 2:15

Declare these things; exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one look down on you.

James 5:20

you should know that whoever brings back a sinner from wandering will save the sinner’s soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

Revelation 3:19

I reprove and discipline those whom I love. Be earnest, therefore, and repent.