Ezekiel 33:8–15

⁸When I sayⁱ to the wicked, ‘Wicked one, you will certainly die,’ and you did not speak^j to warn the wicked from his way, he, the wicked, will die by his guilt, but his blood I will seek from your hand. ⁹But, you, if you warn the wicked from his way, to turn from it, and he does not turn^k from his way, he will die by his guilt, and you will have saved your life.

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.