Ezekiel 33:15

And if that wicked man restore the pledge, and render what he had robbed, and walk in the commandments of life, and do no unjust thing: he shall surely live, and shall not die.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 shall say to the wicked: Thou shalt surely die: and he do penance for his sin, and do judgment and justice,

16None of his sins, which he hath committed, shall be imputed to him: he hath done judgment and justice, he shall surely live.

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Cross References

Exodus 21:34The owner of the pit shall pay the price of the beasts: and that which is dead shall be his own.

Exodus 22:26If thou take of thy neighbour a garment in pledge, thou shalt give it him again before sunset.

Leviticus 18:5Keep my laws and my judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them. I am the Lord.

Deuteronomy 24:6Thou shalt not take the nether, nor the upper millstone to pledge: for he hath pledged his life to thee.

Deuteronomy 24:17Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger nor of the fatherless, neither shalt thou take away the widow's raiment for a pledge.

Job 24:3They have driven away the ass of the fatherless, and have taken away the widow's ox for a pledge.

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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