Ezekiel 18:23-25

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²³ Is it my will that a sinner should die, saith the Lord God, and not that he should be converted from his ways, and live?

²⁴ But if the just man turn himself away from his justice, and do iniquity according to all the abominations which the wicked man useth to work, shall he live? all his justices which he hath done, shall not be remembered: in the prevarication, by which he hath prevaricated, and in his sin, which he hath committed, in them he shall die.

²⁵ And you have said: The way of the Lord is not right. Hear ye, therefore, O house of Israel: Is it my way that is not right, and are not rather your ways perverse?