- 你對他們說、主耶和華說、我指著我的永生起誓、我斷不喜悅惡人死亡.惟喜悅惡人轉離所行的道而活.以色列家阿、你們轉回、轉回罷、離開惡道.何必死亡呢。
- 人子阿、你要對本國的人民說、義人的義、在犯罪之日不能救他.至於惡人的惡、在他轉離惡行之日也不能使他傾倒.義人在犯罪之日也不能因他的義存活。
- 我對義人說、你必定存活.他若倚靠他的義而作罪孽、他所行的義、都不被記念.他必因所作的罪孽死亡。
- 再者、我對惡人說、你必定死亡.他若轉離他的罪、行正直與合理的事.
- 還人的當頭和所搶奪的、遵行生命的律例、不作罪孽.他必定存活、不至死亡。
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- "Say to them, 'As I live!' declares the Lord GOD, 'I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked turn from his way and live Turn back, turn back from your evil ways! Why then will you die, O house of Israel?'
- "And you, son of man, say to your fellow citizens, 'The righteousness of a righteous man will not deliver him in the day of his transgression, and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he will not stumble because of it in the day when he turns from his wickedness; whereas a righteous man will not be able to live by his righteousness on the day when he commits sin.'
- "When I say to the righteous he will surely live, and he so trusts in his righteousness that he commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered; but in that same iniquity of his which he has committed he will die.
- "But when I say to the wicked, 'You will surely die,' and he turns from his sin and practices justice and righteousness,
- if a wicked man restores a pledge, pays back what he has taken by robbery, walks by the statutes which ensure life without committing iniquity, he shall surely live; he shall not die.
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