Ezekiel 18:23
Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? says the Lord GOD: not that he should return from his ways, and live?
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21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he has committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
22 All his transgressions that he has committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he has done he shall live.
23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? says the Lord GOD: not that he should return from his ways, and live?
24 But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, does according to all the abominations that the wicked does, shall he live? All his righteousness that he has done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them shall he die.
25 Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?