Ezekiel 33:12-16
12“Now as for you, son of man, say to the sons of your people, ‘The arighteousness of a righteous man will not deliver him in the day of his transgression, and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he will bnot stumble because of it in the day when he turns from his wickedness; whereas a righteous man will not be able to live 1by his righteousness on the day when he commits sin.’ 13“When I say to the righteous he will surely live, and he so trusts in his righteousness that he adoes iniquity, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered; but in that same iniquity of his which he has done he will die. 14“But when I say to the wicked, ‘You will surely die,’ and he aturns from his sin and does bjustice and righteousness, 15if a wicked man restores a pledge, apays back what he has taken by robbery, walks by the bstatutes of life without committing iniquity, he shall surely live; he shall not die. 16“aNone of his sins that he has done will be remembered against him. He has done justice and righteousness; he shall surely live.