If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he will die for it. Cross References Jeremiah 18:10 and if it does evil in My sight and does not listen to My voice, then I will relent of the good I had intended for it. Ezekiel 3:20 Now if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I put a stumbling block before him, he will die. If you did not warn him, he will die in his sin, and the righteous acts he did will not be remembered. And I will hold you responsible for his blood. Ezekiel 18:24 But if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity, committing the same abominations as the wicked, will he live? None of the righteous acts he did will be remembered. Because of the unfaithfulness and sin he has committed, he will die. Ezekiel 33:12 Therefore, son of man, say to your people: 'The righteousness of the righteous man will not deliver him in the day of his transgression; neither will the wickedness of the wicked man cause him to stumble on the day he turns from his wickedness. Nor will the righteous man be able to survive by his righteousness on the day he sins.' Ezekiel 33:13 If I tell the righteous man that he will surely live, but he then trusts in his righteousness and commits iniquity, then none of his righteous works will be remembered; he will die because of the iniquity he has committed. Ezekiel 33:17 Yet your people say, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' But it is their way that is not just. Ezekiel 33:19 But if a wicked man turns from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he will live because of this. Treasury of Scripture When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die thereby. Ezekiel 33:12,13 Ezekiel 18:26,27 2 Peter 2:20-22 |