Ezekiel 33:12-16

Modern English Version

¹² Therefore you, son of man, say to the sons of your people: The righteousness of a righteous man shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression. As for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall by it in the day that he turns from his wickedness. Nor shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sins. ¹³ When I say to the righteous that he shall surely live and he so trusts in his righteousness that he commits iniquity, all his righteousness shall not be remembered. But for that iniquity of his that he has committed, he shall die. ¹⁴ Again, when I say to the wicked, “You shall surely die,” and he turns from his sin and does that which is lawful and right, ¹⁵ if the wicked man restores a pledge, gives back what he had robbed, walks in the statutes of life without committing iniquity, he shall surely live. He shall not die. ¹⁶ None of his sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him. He has done what is lawful and right. He shall surely live.