- "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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- 你对他们说,主耶和华说,我指着我的永生起誓,我断不喜悦恶人死亡,惟喜悦恶人转离所行的道而活。以色列家阿,你们转回,转回吧。离开恶道,何必死亡呢。
- 人子阿,你要对本国的人民说,义人的义,在犯罪之日不能救他。至于恶人的恶,在他转离恶行之日也不能使他倾倒。义人在犯罪之日也不能因他的义存活。
- 我对义人说,你必定存活。他若倚靠他的义而作罪孽,他所行的义都不被记念。他必因所作的罪孽死亡。
- 再者,我对恶人说,你必定死亡。他若转离他的罪,行正直与合理的事,
- 还人的当头和所抢夺的,遵行生命的律例,不作罪孽,他必定存活,不致死亡。
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