Ezekiel 33:16
Verse 16 of 33. The 33rd of 48 chapters in Ezekiel, in The Major Prophets.
12“You, son of man, tell the children of your people, ‘The righteousness of the righteous will not deliver him in the day of his disobedience. And as for the wickedness of the wicked, he will not fall by it in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither will he who is righteous be able to live by it in the day that he sins.
13When I tell the righteous that he will surely live, if he trusts in his righteousness and commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered; but he will die in his iniquity that he has committed.
14Again, when I say to the wicked, “You will surely die,” if he turns from his sin and does 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 will surely live. He will not die.
16None of his sins that he has committed will be remembered against him. He has done that which is lawful and right. He will surely live.
17“‘Yet the children of your people say, “The way of the Lord is not fair;” but as for them, their way is not fair.
18When the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he will even die therein.
19When the wicked turns from his wickedness and does that which is lawful and right, he will live by it.
20Yet you say, “The way of the Lord is not fair.” House of Israel, I will judge every one of you after his ways.’”
World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.