Ezekiel 33:14
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But if I tell the wicked man, ‘You will surely die,’ and he turns from his sin and does what is just and right—
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But if a wicked man turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will save his life.
Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.
If I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you will surely die,’ but you do not speak out to dissuade him from his way, then that wicked man will die in his iniquity, yet I will hold you accountable for his blood.
Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.
He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.
Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.
But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
“If you will return, O Israel, return to Me,” declares the LORD. “If you will remove your detestable idols from My sight and no longer waver,
Repent, then, and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away,