What does Ezekiel 33:18 mean?

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Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

• Hebrews 10:38

  But my righteous one shall live by faith: And if he shrink back, my soul hath no pleasure in him.

• Ezekiel 33:12

  And thou, son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression; and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall he that is righteous be able to live thereby in the day that he sinneth.

• Ezekiel 3:20

  Again, when a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thy hand.

• Ezekiel 18:26

  When the righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth therein; in his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.

• 2 Peter 2:20

  For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state is become worse with them than the first.

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