Yehezkiel 33:12-13

33:12 “And you, son of man, say to your people, ¹  ‘The righteousness of the righteous will not deliver him if he rebels. ²  As for the wicked, his wickedness will not make him stumble if he turns from it. ³  The righteous will not be able to live by his righteousness ⁴  if he sins.’ ⁵  33:13 Suppose I tell the righteous that he will certainly live, but he becomes confident in his righteousness and commits iniquity. None of his righteous deeds will be remembered; because of the iniquity he has committed he will die.

Yehezkiel 18:26-27

18:26 When a righteous person turns back from his righteousness and practices wrongdoing, he will die for it; ⁶  because of the wrongdoing he has done, he will die. 18:27 When a wicked person turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will preserve his life.

[33:12]  ¹ tn Heb “the sons of your people.”

[33:12]  ² tn Heb “in the day of his rebellion.” The statement envisions a godly person rejecting what is good and becoming sinful. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:247-48.

[33:12]  ³ tn Heb “and the wickedness of the wicked, he will not stumble in it in the day of his turning from his wickedness.”

[33:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “by it.”

[33:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “in the day of his sin.”

[18:26]  ⁶ tn Heb “for them” or “because of them.”