Ezekiel 33:10-20 - Why Will You Die, Israel?
10 And thou, son of man, say to the house of Israel, Thus ye speak, saying, Our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and we pine away in them. How then can we live? 11 Say to them, As I live, says lord LORD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked man, but that the wicked man turn from his way and live. Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways, for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
12 And thou, son of man, say to the sons of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous man shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression. And as for the wickedness of the wicked man, he shall not fall by it in the day that 13 When I say to the righteous man, that he shall surely live, if he trusts his righteousness, and commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered, but in his iniquity that he has committed, in it he shall die.
14 Again, when I say to the wicked man, Thou shall surely die, if he turns from his sin, and does that which is lawful and right, 15 if the wicked man restores the pledge, gives again that which he had taken by robbery, walks in the statutes of life, committing no 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 that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.
17 Yet the sons of thy people say, The way of LORD is not equitable. But as for them, their way is not equitable. 18 When the righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die in it. 19 And when the wicked man turns from his wickedness, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby. 20 Yet ye say, The way of LORD is not equitable. O house of Israel, I will judge you everyone according to his ways.