“Suppose there is a righteous man
    who does what is just and right.

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But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,

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19 “Yet you ask, ‘Why does the son not share the guilt of his father?’ Since the son has done what is just and right and has been careful to keep all my decrees, he will surely live.(A)

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19 Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.

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21 “But if(A) a wicked person turns away from all the sins they have committed and keeps all my decrees(B) and does what is just and right, that person will surely live; they will not die.(C)

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21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

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27 But if a wicked person turns away from the wickedness they have committed and does what is just and right, they will save their life.(A)

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27 Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.

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45 But righteous judges will sentence them to the punishment of women who commit adultery and shed blood,(A) because they are adulterous and blood is on their hands.(B)

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45 And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

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14 And if I say to a wicked person, ‘You will surely die,’ but they then turn away from their sin and do what is just(A) and right—

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14 Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;

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16 None of the sins(A) that person has committed will be remembered against them. They have done what is just and right; they will surely live.(B)

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16 None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.

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19 And if a wicked person turns away from their wickedness and does what is just and right, they will live by doing so.(A)

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19 But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.

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“‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: You have gone far enough, princes of Israel! Give up your violence and oppression(A) and do what is just and right.(B) Stop dispossessing my people, declares the Sovereign Lord.

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Thus saith the Lord God; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord God.

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19 I will betroth(A) you to me forever;
    I will betroth you in[a] righteousness and justice,(B)
    in[b] love and compassion.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 2:19 Or with
  2. Hosea 2:19 Or with

19 And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.

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There are those who turn justice into bitterness(A)
    and cast righteousness(B) to the ground.(C)

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Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

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24 But let justice(A) roll on like a river,
    righteousness(B) like a never-failing stream!(C)

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24 But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

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12 Do horses run on the rocky crags?
    Does one plow the sea[a] with oxen?
But you have turned justice into poison(A)
    and the fruit of righteousness(B) into bitterness(C)

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  1. Amos 6:12 With a different word division of the Hebrew; Masoretic Text plow there

12 Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:

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