New American Standard Bible (NASB)
Ezekiel 33
15 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.
16 None of his sins that he has committed will be remembered against him. He has practiced justice and righteousness; he shall surely live.
17 "Yet your fellow citizens say, ’The way of the Lord is not right,’ when it is their own way that is not right.
18 When the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, then he shall die in it.
19 But when the wicked turns from his wickedness and practices justice and righteousness, he will live by them.
20 Yet you say, ’The way of the Lord is not right.’ O house of Israel, I will judge each of you according to his ways."
21 Now in the twelfth year of our exile, on the fifth of the tenth month, the refugees from Jerusalem came to me, saying, "The city has been taken."
22 Now the hand of the Lord had been upon me in the evening, before the refugees came. And He opened my mouth at the time they came to me in the morning; so my mouth was opened and I was no longer speechless.
23 Then the word of the Lord came to me saying,
24 "Son of man, they who live in these waste places in the land of Israel are saying, ’Abraham was only one, yet he possessed the land; so to us who are many the land has been given as a possession.’
25 Therefore say to them, ’Thus says the Lord God, "You eat meat with the blood in it, lift up your eyes to your idols as you shed blood. Should you then possess the land?
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