Ezekiel 33:18
Good News Translation
When someone righteous stops doing good and starts doing evil, he will die for it.

New Revised Standard Version
When the righteous turn from their righteousness, and commit iniquity, they shall die for it.

Contemporary English Version
If good people start doing evil, they will be put to death, because they have sinned.

New American Bible
When the just turn away from justice and do wrong, they shall die for it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For when the just shall depart from his justice, and commit iniquities, he shall die in them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For when the just shall depart from his justice, and commit iniquities, he shall die in them.

Ezekiel 33:12,13 Thou therefore, O son of man, say to the children of thy people: The justice of the just shall not deliver him, in what day soever he shall sin: and the wickedness of the wicked shall not hurt him, in what day soever he shall turn from his wickedness: and the just shall not be able to live in his justice, in what day soever he shall sin. . . .

Ezekiel 18:26,27 For when the just turneth himself away from his justice, and comitteth iniquity, he shall die therein: in the injustice that he hath wrought he shall die. . . .

2 Peter 2:20-22 For if, flying from the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they be again entangled in them and overcome: their latter state is become unto them worse than the former. . . .

Hebrews 10:38 But my just man liveth by faith: but if he withdraw himself, he shall not please my soul.

Context
The Message of the Watchman
17And the children of thy people have said: The way of the Lord is not equitable: whereas their own way is unjust. 18For when the just shall depart from his justice, and commit iniquities, he shall die in them.19And when the wicked shall depart from his wickedness, and shall do judgments, and justice, he shall live in them.…
Cross References
Jeremiah 18:10
If it shall do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice: I will repent of the good that I have spoken to do unto it.

Ezekiel 3:20
Moreover if the just man shall turn away from his justice, and shall commit iniquity: I will lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die, because thou hast not given him warning: he shall die in his sin, and his justices which he hath done, shall not be remembered: but I will require his blood at thy hand.

Ezekiel 18:24
But if the just man turn himself away from his justice, and do iniquity according to all the abominations which the wicked man useth to work, shall he live? all his justices which he hath done, shall not be remembered: in the prevarication, by which he hath prevaricated, and in his sin, which he hath committed, in them he shall die.

Ezekiel 33:12
Thou therefore, O son of man, say to the children of thy people: The justice of the just shall not deliver him, in what day soever he shall sin: and the wickedness of the wicked shall not hurt him, in what day soever he shall turn from his wickedness: and the just shall not be able to live in his justice, in what day soever he shall sin.

Ezekiel 33:13
Yea, if I shall say to the just that he shall surely live, and he, trusting in his justice, commit iniquity: all his justices shall be forgotten, and his iniquity, which he hath committed, in the same shall he die.

Ezekiel 33:17
And the children of thy people have said: The way of the Lord is not equitable: whereas their own way is unjust.

Ezekiel 33:19
And when the wicked shall depart from his wickedness, and shall do judgments, and justice, he shall live in them.

Ezekiel 33:17
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