Ezekiel 18:22

He will not be punished for the sins he committed previously. Because of the good/righteous things that he has done since that time, he will be allowed to remain alive.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live.

In Context

21But if a wicked person ◄turns away from/quits► doing all the evil things that he did previously, and if he starts to obey faithfully all my laws, and does what is fair and right [DOU], he will surely remain alive; he will not be executed.

23I, Yahweh the Lord, declare that I certainly am not [RHQ] happy about wicked people dying. Instead, I am happy when they turn away from their wicked behavior, and because of that, they remain alive.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 6:23then you listen from heaven, and you decide who is telling the truth. Then punish the person who is guilty as he deserves to be punished, and declare that the other person is innocent.

Psalms 19:11Furthermore, by reading them I learn what things are good to do and what things are evil, and they promise a great reward to us who obey them.

Psalms 32:1Those whom God has forgiven for rebelling against him, whose stains [MET] of sin have been wiped away, are truly blessed by God!

Psalms 103:12He has taken away the guilt for [MTY] our sins, taking it as far from us as the east is from the west.

Jeremiah 31:34And it will not be necessary for them to teach their neighbors or their relatives and say, “ You need to know Yahweh,” because everyone, including unimportant people and very important people, will already know me. And I will forgive them for having been very wicked, and I will never think again about the sins that they have committed.’”

Ezekiel 18:24But if a righteous person stops doing righteous things and starts to commit sins and does the same detestable things that wicked people do, he will certainly not [RHQ] be allowed to remain alive. I will not think about the righteous things that he did previously. Because he did not faithfully do what pleases me, and because of all the sins that he has committed, he will be executed.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 18:22-30

Encouragement to Repentance. ( b. c. 593.) 21 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. 22 All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live. 23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord God : and not that he should return from his ways, and live? 24 But when the… Read the whole commentary →

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