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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.

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12 “So[a] you, son of man,[b] say to your people[c] 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[d] 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. 13 When I say to the righteous, ‘Certainly he will live,’ and he trusted in[e] his righteousness, and he turns and he does injustice, all of his righteousness[f] will not be remembered, and because of his injustice that he did, because of it he will die. 14 And when I say to the wicked, ‘Certainly you will die,’ but[g] he returns from his sin and he does justice and righteousness— 15 for example, the wicked returns a pledge for a loan, he restores stolen property,[h] he goes in the statutes of life so as not to do injustice—certainly he will live; he will not die. 16 All of his sins that he committed,[i] they will not be remembered against[j] him, and he did justice and righteousness; certainly he will live.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 33:12 Or “And”
  2. Ezekiel 33:12 Or “mortal,” or “son of humankind”
  3. Ezekiel 33:12 Literally “the children of your people”
  4. Ezekiel 33:12 Literally “not he will stumbled by it”
  5. Ezekiel 33:13 Or “on”
  6. Ezekiel 33:13 According to the reading tradition (Qere)
  7. Ezekiel 33:14 Or “and”
  8. Ezekiel 33:15 Literally “robbed/stolen items
  9. Ezekiel 33:16 Literally “sins that he sinned”
  10. Ezekiel 33:16 Or “for”