Ezekiel 33:9
Good News Translation
If you do warn an evil person and he doesn't stop sinning, he will die, still a sinner, but your life will be spared."

New Revised Standard Version
But if you warn the wicked to turn from their ways, and they do not turn from their ways, the wicked shall die in their iniquity, but you will have saved your life.

Contemporary English Version
If you do warn them, and they keep sinning, they will die because of their sins, and you will be innocent.

New American Bible
If, however, you warn the wicked to turn from their ways, but they do not, then they shall die in their sins, but you shall save your life.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But if thou tell the wicked man, that he may be converted from his ways, and he be not converted from his way he shall die in his iniquity: but thou hast delivered thy soul.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But if thou tell the wicked man, that he may be converted from his ways, and he be not converted from his way he shall die in his iniquity: but thou hast delivered thy soul.

if thou

Ezekiel 3:19,21 But if thou give warning to the wicked, and he be not converted from his wickedness, and from his evil way: he indeed shall die in his iniquity, but thou hast delivered thy soul. . . .

Acts 13:40 Beware, therefore, lest that come upon you which is spoken in the prophets:

Acts 18:5,6 And when Silas and Timothy were come from Macedonia, Paul was earnest in preaching, testifying to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ. . . .

Acts 28:23-28 And when they had appointed him a day, there came very many to him unto his lodgings. To whom he expounded, testifying the kingdom of God and persuading them concerning Jesus, out of the law of Moses and the prophets, from morning until evening. . . .

Galatians 5:19-21 Now the works of the flesh are manifest: which are fornication, uncleanness, immodesty, luxury, . . .

Galatians 6:7,8 Be not deceived: God is not mocked. . . .

Ephesians 5:3-6 But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not so much as be named among you, as becometh saints: . . .

Philippians 3:18,19 For many walk, of whom I have told you often (and now tell you weeping) that they are enemies of the cross of Christ: . . .

1 Thessalonians 4:3-8 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: That you should abstain from fornication: . . .

1 Thessalonians 5:14 And we beseech you, brethren, rebuke the unquiet: comfort the feeble minded: support the weak: be patient towards all men.

if he

Proverbs 15:10 Instruction is grievous to him that forsaketh the way of life: he that hateth reproof shall die.

Proverbs 29:1 The man that with a stiff neck despiseth him that reproveth him, shall suddenly be destroyed: and health shall not follow him.

Luke 12:47 And that servant, who knew the will of his lord and prepared not himself and did not according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

John 8:24 Therefore I said to you that you shall die in your sins. For if you believe not that I am he, you shall die in your sin.

Acts 13:46 Then Paul and Barnabas said boldly: To you it behoved us first to speak the word of God: but because you reject it and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold we turn to the Gentiles.

Hebrews 2:3 How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation? Which, having begun to be declared by the Lord, was confirmed unto us by them that heard him.

Hebrews 12:25 See that you refuse him not that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke upon earth, much more shall not we that turn away from him that speaketh to us from heaven.

thou hast

Acts 20:26 Wherefore I take you to witness this day that I am clear from the blood of all men.

2 Corinthians 2:15-17 For we are the good odour of Christ unto God, in them that are saved and in them that perish. . . .

Context
Ezekiel the Watchman for Israel
8When I say to the wicked: O wicked man, thou shalt surely die: if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked man from his way: that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at thy hand. 9But if thou tell the wicked man, that he may be converted from his ways, and he be not converted from his way he shall die in his iniquity: but thou hast delivered thy soul.
Cross References
Acts 13:40
Beware, therefore, lest that come upon you which is spoken in the prophets:

Acts 13:41
Behold, ye despisers, and wonder and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which you will not believe, if any man shall tell it you.

Acts 20:26
Wherefore I take you to witness this day that I am clear from the blood of all men.

Ezekiel 3:19
But if thou give warning to the wicked, and he be not converted from his wickedness, and from his evil way: he indeed shall die in his iniquity, but thou hast delivered thy soul.

Ezekiel 3:21
But if thou warn the just man, that the just may not sin, and he doth not sin: living he shall live, because thou hast warned him, and thou hast delivered thy soul.

Ezekiel 33:3
And he sees the sword coming upon the land, and sound the trumpet, and tell the people:

Ezekiel 33:4
Then he that heareth the sound of the trumpet, whosoever he be, and doth not look to himself, if the sword come, and cut him off: his blood shall be upon his own head.

Ezekiel 33:6
And if the watchman see the sword coming, and sound not the trumpet: and the people look not to themselves, and the sword come, and cut off a soul from among them: he indeed is taken away in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at the hand of the watchman.

Ezekiel 33:8
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