Ezekiel 33:12-20

12And you, son of man, say to 1your fellow citizens, ‘The 2righteousness of a righteous man will not deliver him in the day of his transgression, and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he will 3not stumble because of it in the day when he turns from his wickedness; whereas a righteous man will not be able to live 4by 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 5commits 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 6turns from his sin and practices 7justice and righteousness, 15if a wicked man restores a pledge, 8pays back what he has taken by robbery, walks by the 9statutes 10which ensure life without committing iniquity, he shall surely live; he shall not die. 1611None of his sins that he has committed will be remembered against him. He has practiced justice and righteousness; he shall surely live.

17“Yet 12your fellow citizens say, ‘The way of the Lord is not right,’ when it is their own way that is not right. 18When the righteous turns from his righteousness and 13commits iniquity, then he shall die in 14it. 19But when the wicked turns from his wickedness and practices justice and righteousness, he will live by them. 20Yet you say, ‘15The way of the Lord is not right.’ O house of Israel, I will judge each of you according to his ways.”