Ezekiel 33:12-
13 Therefore, thou son of man,
say unto the children of thy people,
The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression:
as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness;
neither shall the righteous be able to live for his [
righteousness] in the day that he sinneth. ... When I shall say to the righteous, [
that] he shall surely live;
if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed,
he shall die for it.
Ezekiel 18:26-
27 When a righteous [
man] turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die. ... Again,
when the wicked [
man] turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right,
he shall save his soul alive.
2 Peter 2:20-
22 For if
after they have
escaped the pollutions of the world
through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome,
the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. ... But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb,
The dog [
is] turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
Hebrews 10:38 Now
the just shall live by faith:
but if [
any man] draw back,
my soul shall have no pleasure in him.