Ezekiel 18:27 But if a wicked person turns away from the wickedness they have committed and does what is just and right, they will save their life.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
But if a wicked person turns away from the wickedness they have committed and does what is just and right, they will save their life.

English Standard Version
Again, when a wicked person turns away from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he shall save his life.

New American Standard Bible
"Again, when a wicked man turns away from his wickedness which he has committed and practices justice and righteousness, he will save his life.

King James Bible
Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
But if a wicked person turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will preserve his life.

International Standard Version
When a wicked person quits his wicked behavior and does what's just and right, he'll be enabled to live.

American Standard Version
Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when the wicked turneth himself away from his wickedness, which he hath wrought, and doeth judgment, and justice: he shall save his soul alive.

Darby Bible Translation
And when the wicked turneth from his wickedness which he hath committed, and doeth judgment and justice, he shall keep his soul alive.

Young's Literal Translation
And in the turning back of the wicked From his wickedness that he hath done, And he doth judgment and righteousness, He his soul doth keep alive.

Cross References

Isaiah 1:18
Come now, and let us reason together, said the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Isaiah 55:7
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Ezekiel 13:22
Because with lies you have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life:

Ezekiel 18:21
But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he has committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

Ezekiel 18:26
When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies in them; for his iniquity that he has done shall he die.

Ezekiel 18:28
Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

Ezekiel 33:14
Again, when I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

27. he shall save his soul—that is, he shall have it saved upon his repentance.