⁸ If I should say to a certain wicked person, ‘You wicked man, you’re certainly about to die,’ but you don’t warn him to turn from his wicked behavior,^[a] he’ll die in his guilt, but I’ll seek retribution for his bloodshed from you.^{[b] 9} However, if you warn the wicked to turn from his behavior^[c] and he does not do so, he will die in his guilt, and you will have saved yourself.”^[d]

God Hates the Death of the Wicked

¹⁰ “‘Now, Son of Man, tell this to the house of Israel:

‘You keep saying, “Our crimes and sins burden us so much that we’re rotting away, so how can we keep on living?”’