But if you do warn the wicked person and they do not turn from their wickedness or from their evil ways, they will die for their sin; but you will have saved yourself.

Yet in her wickedness she has rebelled against my laws and decrees more than the nations and countries around her. She has rejected my laws and has not followed my decrees.

“‘Woe! Woe to you, declares the Sovereign Lord. In addition to all your other wickedness,

before your wickedness was uncovered. Even so, you are now scorned by the daughters of Edom and all her neighbors and the daughters of the Philistines—all those around you who despise you.

The one who sins is the one who will die. The child will not share the guilt of the parent, nor will the parent share the guilt of the child. The righteousness of the righteous will be credited to them, and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged against them.

But if a wicked person turns away from the wickedness they have committed and does what is just and right, they will save their life.

You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created till wickedness was found in you.

I gave it into the hands of the ruler of the nations, for him to deal with according to its wickedness. I cast it aside,

“Therefore, son of man, say to your people, ‘If someone who is righteous disobeys, that person’s former righteousness will count for nothing. And if someone who is wicked repents, that person’s former wickedness will not bring condemnation. The righteous person who sins will not be allowed to live even though they were formerly righteous.’

And if a wicked person turns away from their wickedness and does what is just and right, they will live by doing so.