Ezekiel 33:10-20 - Why Will You Die, Israel?
10 "And you, son of man, say to the house of Israel, {saying}, 'So you said, {saying}, "Indeed, our transgressions and our sins [are] on us, and because of them we [are] rotting, and how can we live?" ' 11 Say to them, '{As I live},' {declares} the Lord Yahweh, '{Surely I have no delight} in the death of the wicked, {except} in [the] wicked returning from his way, and he lives. Turn back! Turn back from your ways, O evil [ones], for why should you die, house of Israel?'
12 "So you, son of man, say to {your people} [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} 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 his righteousness, and he [turns and he] does injustice, all of his righteousness 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 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}, 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}, they will not be remembered against him, and he did justice and righteousness; certainly he will live.
17 "Yet {your people} say, 'The way of the Lord is not fair!' [yet] their way is not fair. 18 When [the] righteous turns from his righteousness and does injustice, then he will die {because of it}. 19 And when the wicked turns from his wickedness, and he does justice and righteousness, because of it {he will certainly live}! 20 Yet you said, 'The way of the Lord is not fair!' I will judge you, house of Israel, each [person] according to his ways."