Ezekiel 18:28
New International Version
Because they consider all the offenses they have committed and turn away from them, that person will surely live; they will not die.

New Living Translation
They will live because they thought it over and decided to turn from their sins. Such people will not die.

English Standard Version
Because he considered and turned away from all the transgressions that he had committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die.

Berean Standard Bible
Because he considered and turned from all the transgressions he had committed, he will surely live; he will not die.

King James Bible
Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

New King James Version
Because he considers and turns away from all the transgressions which he committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die.

New American Standard Bible
Since he understood and turned away from all his offenses which he had committed, he shall certainly live; he shall not die.

NASB 1995
“Because he considered and turned away from all his transgressions which he had committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die.

NASB 1977
“Because he considered and turned away from all his transgressions which he had committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die.

Legacy Standard Bible
Again, he considered and turned away from all his transgressions which he had done; he shall surely live; he shall not die.

Amplified Bible
Because he considered and turned away from all the transgressions which he had committed, he shall certainly live; he shall not die.

Christian Standard Bible
He will certainly live because he thought it over and turned from all the transgressions he had committed; he will not die.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He will certainly live because he thought it over and turned from all the transgressions he had committed; he will not die.

American Standard Version
Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And if he will see and he will return from all his sins that he did, he shall surely live, and he shall not die

Brenton Septuagint Translation
and has turned away from all his ungodliness which he has committed: he shall surely live, he shall not die.

Contemporary English Version
They will think about what they've done and stop sinning, and so they won't be put to death.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because he considereth and turneth away himself from all his iniquities which he hath wrought, he shall surely live, and not die.

English Revised Version
Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He realized what he was doing and turned away from all the rebellious things that he had done. He will certainly live. He will not die.

Good News Translation
He realizes what he is doing and stops sinning, so he will certainly not die, but go on living.

International Standard Version
Because he reconsidered his transgression and turned away from everything that he had been doing, he'll certainly live and not die.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

Literal Standard Version
And he sees and turns back, | From all his transgressions that he has done, | He surely lives, he does not die,

Majority Standard Bible
Because he considered and turned from all the transgressions he had committed, he will surely live; he will not die.

New American Bible
since they turned away from all the sins they committed, they shall live; they shall not die.

NET Bible
Because he considered and turned from all the sins he had done, he will surely live; he will not die.

New Revised Standard Version
Because they considered and turned away from all the transgressions that they had committed, they shall surely live; they shall not die.

New Heart English Bible
Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

Webster's Bible Translation
Because he considereth and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

World English Bible
Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live. He shall not die.

Young's Literal Translation
And he seeth and turneth back, From all his transgressions that he hath done, He doth surely live, he doth not die,

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Context
The Soul who Sins will Die
27But if a wicked man turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will save his life. 28Because he considered and turned from all the transgressions he had committed, he will surely live; he will not die. 29Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Are My ways unjust, O house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are unjust?…

Cross References
Ezekiel 18:21
But if the wicked man turns from all the sins he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is just and right, he will surely live; he will not die.

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 18:29
Yet the house of Israel says, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' Are My ways unjust, O house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are unjust?


Treasury of Scripture

Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

he considereth

Ezekiel 18:14
Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father's sins which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like,

Ezekiel 12:3
Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from thy place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they be a rebellious house.

Deuteronomy 32:29
O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

turneth

Ezekiel 18:21,31
But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die…

Ezekiel 33:12
Therefore, 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: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.

1 Samuel 7:3,4
And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the LORD, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines…

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
















Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Because he considered
וַיִּרְאֶ֣ה (way·yir·’eh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7200: To see

and turned
וַיָּ֔שָׁב (way·yā·šāḇ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again

from all
מִכָּל־ (mik·kāl)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

the transgressions
פְּשָׁעָ֖יו (pə·šā·‘āw)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 6588: Transgression

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

he will surely live;
חָי֥וֹ (ḥā·yōw)
Verb - Qal - Infinitive absolute
Strong's 2421: To live, to revive

he will not
לֹ֥א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

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


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