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Ezekiel 33:19 KJV
Ezekiel · chapter 33 · verse 19
But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.Ezekiel 33:19 · King James Version
Ezekiel 33:19 in context
17Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.
18When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby.
19But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
20Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O ye house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways.
21And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city is smitten.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- wickednessrishʻâhwrongH7564 →
- wickedrâshâʻmorally wrongH7563 →
- lawfulmishpâṭproperly, a verdict pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree divine…H4941 →
- righttsᵉdâqâhrightness , subjectively , objectively , morally or figurativelyH6666 →
- turnshûwbto turn back transitively or intransitively, literally or figurativelyH7725 →
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These verses are the substance of what we had before (Eze 18:20, etc.) and they are so full and express a declaration of the terms on which people stand with God (as the former were of the terms on which ministers stand) that it is no wonder that they are here repeated, as those were, though we had the substance of…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 10-20