21. But if the impious man does penance for all his sins which he has committed, and if he keeps all my precepts, and accomplishes judgment and justice, then he shall certainly live, and he shall not die.
22. I will not remember all his iniquities, which he has worked; by his justice, which he has worked, he shall live.
23. How could it be my will that an impious man should die, says the Lord God, and not that he should be converted from his ways and live?
24. But if a just man turns himself away from his justice, and does iniquity in accord with all the abominations that the impious man so often does, why should he live? All his justices, which he has accomplished, shall not be remembered. By the transgression, in which he has transgressed, and by his sin, in which he has sinned, by these he shall die.