9. But, you, if you warn the wicked from his way, to turn from it, and he does not turn from his way, he will die by his guilt, and you will have saved your life.
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!