Ezekiel 33:11–20

¹¹“Tell them, ‘As I live, declares the Almighty Lord, I don’t want wicked people to die. Rather, I want them to turn from their ways and live. Change the way you think and act! Turn from your wicked ways! Do you want to die, people of Israel?’ 

¹²“Son of man, say to your people, ‘The right things that a righteous person has done will not save him when he rebels. The wicked things that a wicked person has done will not make him stumble when he turns from his wickedness. The righteous person will not live when he sins.’ ¹³I may promise the righteous person that he will certainly live. But if he trusts in the right things that he has done and he does evil, none of the right things that he has done will be remembered. He will die because of the evil things he has done. ¹⁴I may warn the wicked person that he will certainly die. But suppose he turns from his sin and does what is fair and right. ¹⁵He returns the security for a loan, pays back everything he stole, lives by the rules of life, and does nothing evil. Then he will certainly live. He will not die. ¹⁶None of the sins that he has done will be remembered. He has done what is fair and right. He will certainly live. 

¹⁷“But your people say, ‘The Lord’s way is unfair.’ Yet, their ways are unfair. ¹⁸If the righteous person turns from the right things that he has done and does evil, he will die because of it. ¹⁹If the wicked person turns from his wickedness and does what is fair and right, he will live because of it. ²⁰Yet, the people of Israel say, ‘The Lord’s way is unfair.’ I will judge each of you by your own ways, people of Israel.”