Ezekiel 33:15
If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Context
This verse from Ezekiel Chapter 33 connects to 10 cross-references. Renewal of Ezekiel's watchman commission as the news of Jerusalem's fall arrives. The principle of individual responsibility is repeated: turn from your wicked ways for why should you die? Those remaining in the land think they will inherit the land …
Other Translations
if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
(The pledge the wicked restoreth, plunder he repayeth,) In the statutes of life he hath walked, So as not to do perversity, He surely liveth--he doth not die.
If the evil-doer lets one who is in his debt have back what is his, and gives back what he had taken by force, and is guided by the rules of life, doing no evil; life will certainly be his, death will not overtake him.
Cross References
If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five …
If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall …
If thou at all take thy neighbour’s raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun …
For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall …
If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the Lord, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was …
Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add …
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I …
Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do …
But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto the Lord, …
No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man’s life to pledge.