Ezekiel 14:20
Ezekiel chapter 14 · verse 20 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, they should deliver neither son nor daughter; they should but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, they should deliver neither son nor daughter; they should but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.
Context
v.19Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast;
v.20This passage
v.21For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the evil beasts, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 John 3:7
My little children, let no man lead you astray: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous:
- 1 John 2:29
If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one also that doeth righteousness is begotten of him.
- Acts 10:35
but in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is acceptable to him.
- Ezekiel 14:14
though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord Jehovah.
- Zephaniah 2:3
Seek ye Jehovah, all ye meek of the earth, that have kept his ordinances; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye will be hid in the day of Jehovah’s anger.
- Psalms 33:18
Behold, the eye of Jehovah is upon them that fear him, Upon them that hope in his lovingkindness;