^{11 Ref} Tell them, As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn you, turn you from your evil ways; for why will you die, house of Israel?

^{12 Ref} You, 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.

^{13 Ref} When 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.

^{14 Ref} Again, when I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;

^{15 Ref} if 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.

^{16 Ref} 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 Ref} Yet the children of your people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.

^{18 Ref} When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die therein.

^{19 Ref} When the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.

^{20 Ref} Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. House of Israel, I will judge you everyone after his ways.