Ezekiel 33:8–15

⁸“When I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you will ^asurely die,’ and you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require from your hand.

⁹“But if you on your part warn a wicked man to turn from his way and he ^adoes not turn from his way, he will die in his iniquity, but you have ^bdelivered your life.

¹⁰“Now as for you, son of man, say to the house of Israel, ‘Thus you have spoken, saying, “Surely our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and we are ^arotting away in them; ^bhow then can we ¹survive?” ’

¹¹“Say to them, ‘^aAs I live!’ declares the Lord ¹God, ‘I take ^bno pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked ^cturn from his way and live. ^dTurn back, turn back from your evil ways! Why then will you die, O house of Israel?’

¹²“And you, son of man, say to ¹your fellow citizens, ‘The ^arighteousness of a righteous man will not deliver him in the day of his transgression, and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he will ^bnot stumble because of it in the day when he turns from his wickedness; whereas a righteous man will not be able to live ²by his righteousness on the day when he commits sin.’

¹³“When I say to the righteous he will surely live, and he so trusts in his righteousness that he ^acommits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered; but in that same iniquity of his which he has committed he will die.

¹⁴“But when I say to the wicked, ‘You will surely die,’ and he ^aturns from his sin and practices ^bjustice and righteousness,

¹⁵if a wicked man restores a pledge, ^apays back what he has taken by robbery, walks by the ^bstatutes ¹which ensure life without committing iniquity, he shall surely live; he shall not die.