“But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness
and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations
that the wicked man does, shall he live? All the righteousness
which he has done shall not be remembered; because of the
unfaithfulness of which he is guilty and the sin which
he has committed, because of them he shall die.
“Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair.’
Hear now, O house of Israel, is it not My way which is fair,
and your ways which are not fair? When a righteous man turns
away from his righteousness, commits iniquity, and dies in it,
it is because of the iniquity which he has done that he dies.
Again, when a wicked man turns away from the wickedness which
he committed, and does what is lawful and right, he preserves
himself alive. Because he considers and turns away from all
the transgressions which he committed, he shall surely live;
he shall not die.