Ezekiel 33:11

11 "Say to them, '1As I live!' declares the Lord GOD, 'I take 2no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather * that the wicked 3turn from his way and live. 4Turn back, turn back from your evil ways! Why then will you die, O house of Israel?'

Ezekiel 33:11 In-Context

9 "But if you on your part warn a wicked man to turn from his way and he does not turn from his way, he will die in his iniquity, but you have delivered your life.
10 "Now as for you, son of man, say to the house of Israel, 'Thus you have spoken, saying, "Surely our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and we are rotting away in them; how then can we survive?"'
11 "Say to them, 'As I live!' declares the Lord GOD, 'I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn back, turn back from your evil ways! Why then will you die, O house of Israel?'
12 "And you, son of man, say to your fellow citizens, 'The righteousness of a righteous man will not deliver him in the day of his transgression, and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he will not stumble because of it in the day when he turns from his wickedness; whereas a righteous man will not be able to live by his righteousness on the day when he commits sin.'
13 "When I say to the righteous he will surely live, and he so trusts in his righteousness that he commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered; but in that same iniquity of his which he has committed he will die.

Cross References 4

  • 1. Isaiah 49:18; Ezekiel 5:11
  • 2. Ezekiel 18:23, 32; Hosea 11:8
  • 3. Jeremiah 31:20; 1 Timothy 2:4; 2 Peter 3:9
  • 4. Isaiah 55:6, 7; Jeremiah 3:22; Ezekiel 18:30, 31; Hosea 14:1; Acts 3:19

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Heb "YHWH," usually rendered LORD, and so throughout the ch
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