Ezekiel 33:15

and if that impious man returns the collateral, and repays what he has taken by force, and if he walks in the commandments of life, and does not do anything unjust, then he shall certainly live, and he shall not die.

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In The King James Version

If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.

In Context

14And if I say to the impious man, ‘You shall certainly die,’ and yet he repents from his sin, and he does judgment and justice,

16None of his sins, which he has committed, will be imputed to him. He has done judgment and justice, so he shall certainly live.

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Cross References

Exodus 21:34then the owner of the cistern shall repay the price of the beasts, and what is dead will belong to him.

Exodus 22:26If you take a garment from your neighbor as a pledge, you shall return it to him again before the setting of the sun.

Leviticus 18:5Keep my laws and judgments; when a man does these, he shall live by them. I am the Lord.

Deuteronomy 24:6You shall not accept an upper or lower millstone as collateral. For then he will have placed his life with you.

Deuteronomy 24:17You shall not pervert the judgment of the new arrival or the orphan, nor shall you take away the widow’s garment as collateral.

Job 24:3They have driven away the donkey of orphans, and have taken the cow from the widow as collateral.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 33:11-21

The Cavils of the People Answered. ( b. c. 587.) 10 Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel; Thus ye speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live? 11 Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord God , I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel? 12 Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy… Read the whole commentary →

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