Ezekiel 33:10–20

¹⁰“And you, son of man,^l say to the house of Israel, saying,^m ‘So you said, saying,ⁿ “Indeed, our transgressions and our sins are on us, and because of them we are rotting, and how can we live?” ’ ¹¹Say to them, ‘As I live,’^o declares^p the Lord Yahweh, ‘Surely I have no delight^q in the death of the wicked, except^r in the wicked returning from his way, and he lives. Turn back! Turn back from your ways, O evil ones, for why should you die, house of Israel?’

¹²“So^s you, son of man,^t say to your people^u that the righteousness of the righteous shall not save him in the day of his transgression, and the wickedness of the wicked will not cause him to stumble^v on the day of his returning from his wickedness; and the righteous will not be able to live by it on the day when he returns to his sin. ¹³When I say to the righteous, ‘Certainly he will live,’ and he trusted in^w his righteousness, and he turns and he does injustice, all of his righteousness^x will not be remembered, and because of his injustice that he did, because of it he will die. ¹⁴And when I say to the wicked, ‘Certainly you will die,’ but^y he returns from his sin and he does justice and righteousness— ¹⁵for example, the wicked returns a pledge for a loan, he restores stolen property,^z he goes in the statutes of life so as not to do injustice—certainly he will live; he will not die. ¹⁶All of his sins that he committed,^a they will not be remembered against^b him, and he did justice and righteousness; certainly he will live.

¹⁷“Yet^c your people^d say, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair!’ yet their way is not fair. ¹⁸When the righteous turns from his righteousness and does injustice, then he will die because of it.^{e 19}And when the wicked turns from his wickedness, and he does justice and righteousness, because of it^f he will certainly live!^{g 20}Yet you said, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair!’ I will judge you, house of Israel, each person according to his ways.”