Ezekiel 33:12-14
1599 Geneva Bible
12 Therefore thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The [a]righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression, nor the wickedness of the wicked shall cause him to fall therein, in the day that he returneth from his wickedness, neither shall the righteous live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.
13 When I shall say unto the righteous, that he shall surely live, if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousness shall be no more remembered, but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for the same.
14 Again when I shall say unto the wicked, Thou shalt die the death, if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and [b]right,
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- Ezekiel 33:12 Read of this righteousness, Ezek. 18:21, 24.
- Ezekiel 33:14 Hereby he condemneth all them of hypocrisy, which pretend to forsake wickedness, and yet declare not themselves such by their fruits, that is, in obeying God’s commandments, and by godly life.
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