Ezekiel 18:22
Parallel Verses
New International Version
None of the offenses they have committed will be remembered against them. Because of the righteous things they have done, they will live.


English Standard Version
None of the transgressions that he has committed shall be remembered against him; for the righteousness that he has done he shall live.


New American Standard Bible
"All his transgressions which he has committed will not be remembered against him; because of his righteousness which he has practiced, he will live.


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


Holman Christian Standard Bible
None of the transgressions he has committed will be held against him. He will live because of the righteousness he has practiced.


International Standard Version
None of the transgressions that he had committed will be held against him. Because of the righteous deeds that he had done, he'll live.


American Standard Version
None of his transgressions that he hath committed shall be remembered against him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live.


Douay-Rheims Bible
I will not remember all his iniquities that he hath done: in his justice which he hath wrought, he shall live.


Darby Bible Translation
None of his transgressions which he hath committed shall be remembered against him; in his righteousness which he hath done shall he live.


Young's Literal Translation
All his transgressions that he hath done Are not remembered to him, In his righteousness that he hath done he liveth.


Commentaries
18:21-29 The wicked man would be saved, if he turned from his evil ways. The true penitent is a true believer. None of his former transgressions shall be mentioned unto him, but in the righteousness which he has done, as the fruit of faith and the effect of conversion, he shall surely live. The question is not whether the truly righteous ever become apostates. It is certain that many who for a time were thought to be righteous, do so, while ver. 26,27 speaks the fulness of pardoning mercy: when sin is forgiven, it is blotted out, it is remembered no more. In their righteousness they shall live; not for their righteousness, as if that were an atonement for their sins, but in their righteousness, which is one of the blessings purchased by the Mediator. What encouragement a repenting, returning sinner has to hope for pardon and life according to this promise! In verse 28 is the beginning and progress of repentance. True believers watch and pray, and continue to the end, and they are saved. In all our disputes with God, he is in the right, and we are in the wrong.

22. in his righteousness … he shah live—in it, not for it, as if that atoned for his former sins; but "in his righteousness" he shall live, as the evidence of his being already in favor with God through the merit of Messiah, who was to come. The Gospel clears up for us many such passages (1Pe 1:12), which were dimly understood at the time, while men, however, had light enough for salvation.
Ezekiel 18:21
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