13. 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.
14. But when I say to the wicked, 'You will surely die,' and he turns from his sin and practices justice and righteousness,
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.