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11 Say to them, ‘(A)As I live!’ declares Lord Yahweh, ‘I take (B)no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked (C)turn from his way and live. (D)Turn back, turn back from your evil ways! Why then will you die, O house of Israel?’ 12 Now as for you, son of man, say to the sons of your people, ‘The (E)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 (F)not stumble because of it in the day when he turns from his wickedness; whereas a righteous man will not be able to live [a]by his righteousness on the day when he commits sin.’ 13 When I say to the righteous he will surely live, and he so trusts in his righteousness that he (G)does iniquity, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered; but in that same iniquity of his which he has done he will die.

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  1. Ezekiel 33:12 Lit by it