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What does Ezekiel 33:15 mean?

"if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he will surely live. He will not die."

— Ezekiel 33:15 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

12

“You, son of man, tell the children of your people, ‘The righteousness of the righteous will not deliver him in the day of his disobedience. And as for the wickedness of the wicked, he will not fall thereby in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither will he who is righteous be able to live by it in the day that he sins.

13

When I tell the righteous that he will surely live; if he trusts in his righteousness, and commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered; but he will die in his iniquity that he has committed.

14

Again, when I say to the wicked, “You will surely die;” if he turns from his sin, and does that which is lawful and right;

15

if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he will surely live. He will not die.

16

None of his sins that he has committed will be remembered against him. He has done that which is lawful and right. He will surely live.

17

“‘Yet the children of your people say, “The way of the Lord is not fair;” but as for them, their way is not fair.

18

When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he will even die therein.

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