Tell them, As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn, turn from your evil ways; for why will you die, house of Israel?
⛓ Read Ezekiel 33 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The oath 'As I live, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live' restates the divine saving desire that Paul invokes in saying God wills all people to be saved. The emphatic divine self-witness to a will for repentance and life parallels Paul's theology of God our Savior. It complements the Ezekiel 18 echo.
Medium confidence'I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that he turn from his way and live' supplies the same individualized call to repentance against assumed corporate judgment. Recurrence of Ezekiel's repent-or-perish motif strengthens the echo alongside 18:30-32.
Medium confidence