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"And your people say that what I do isn't right! No, it's their way that isn't right.
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When someone righteous stops doing good and starts doing evil, he will die for it.
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When someone evil quits sinning and does what is right and good, he has saved his life.
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But Israel, you say that what I do isn't right. I am going to judge you by what you do."
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On the fifth day of the tenth month of the twelfth year of our exile, someone who had escaped from Jerusalem came and told me that the city had fallen.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.