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Ezekiel 3:21 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous not sin, and he does not sin, he will surely live, because he took warning; and you have delivered your soul.” "
Ezekiel 3:21
Verse in Context
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19 Yet if you warn the wicked, and he doesn’t turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he will die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.”
20 “Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he will die. Because you have not given him warning, he will die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered; but I will require his blood at your hand.
21 Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous not sin, and he does not sin, he will surely live, because he took warning; and you have delivered your soul.”
22 The LORD’s hand was there on me; and he said to me, “Arise, go out into the plain, and I will talk with you there.”
23 Then I arose, and went out into the plain, and behold, the LORD’s glory stood there, like the glory which I saw by the river Chebar. Then I fell on my face.
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Ezekiel 3:1
"He said to me, “Son of man, eat what you find. Eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.”"
Ezekiel 3:2
"So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the scroll."
Ezekiel 3:3
"He said to me, “Son of man, eat this scroll that I give you and fill your belly and your bowels with it.” Then I ate it. It was as sweet as honey in my mouth."
Ezekiel 3:4
"He said to me, “Son of man, go to the house of Israel, and speak my words to them."
Ezekiel 3:5
"For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel—"
Ezekiel 3:6
"not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words you can’t understand. Surely, if I sent you to them, they would listen to you."
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