Ezekiel 33:11-14

11Say to them, ‘1As I live!’ declares the Lord 2God, ‘I take 3no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked 4turn from his way and live. 5Turn back, turn back from your evil ways! Why then will you die, O house of Israel?’

12And you, son of man, say to 6your fellow citizens, ‘The 7righteousness of a righteous man will not deliver him in the day of his transgression, and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he will 8not stumble because of it in the day when he turns from his wickedness; whereas a righteous man will not be able to live 9by his righteousness on the day when he commits sin.’

13When I say to the righteous he will surely live, and he so trusts in his righteousness that he 10commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered; but in that same iniquity of his which he has committed he will die.

14But when I say to the wicked, ‘You will surely die,’ and he 11turns from his sin and practices 12justice and righteousness,