Ezekiel 33:15

if he restores a pledge, makes restitution for what he has stolen, and walks in the statutes of life without practicing iniquity—then he will surely live; he will not die.

Berean Standard Bible

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

14But if I tell the wicked man, ‘You will surely die,’ and he turns from his sin and does what is just and right—

16None of the sins he has committed will be held against him. He has done what is just and right; he will surely live.

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Cross References

Exodus 21:34the owner of the pit shall make restitution; he must pay its owner, and the dead animal will be his.

Exodus 22:26If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset,

Leviticus 18:5Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD.

Deuteronomy 24:6Do not take a pair of millstones or even an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that would be taking one’s livelihood as security.

Deuteronomy 24:17Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.

Job 24:3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in 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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