12You, son of man, tell the children of your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his disobedience; and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither shall he who is righteous be able to live thereby in the day that he sins.
13When I tell the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his righteousness, and commit iniquity, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered; but in his iniquity that he has committed, therein shall he die.
14Again, when I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;
15if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
16None 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.
17Yet the children of your people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.
18When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die therein.
