17 “Yet your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But it is their way that is not just. 18 If a righteous person turns from their righteousness and does evil,(A) they will die for it.(B) 19 And if a wicked person turns away from their wickedness and does what is just and right, they will live by doing so.(C) 20 Yet you Israelites say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But I will judge each of you according to your own ways.”(D)

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17 “Nevertheless, your people’s children keep saying, ‘Living life the Lord’s way[a] isn’t right,’ when all the while it is their way of living[b] that isn’t right. 18 When a righteous man forsakes his own righteousness and commits evil acts, he will die because of those acts, 19 and when the wicked turn away from their wickedness and do what is just and right, he will certainly live because of that. 20 “And yet you keep saying, ‘Living life[c] the Lord’s way isn’t right,’ But I will judge every one of you according to the way you live, you house of Israel!”

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 33:17 Lit. saying, ‘The way of
  2. Ezekiel 33:17 The Heb. lacks of living
  3. Ezekiel 33:20 Lit. saying, ‘The way of