Ezekiel 3:16-21

Afterward, YAHWEH spoke the following words to me: “Son of man, I am appointing you as a watchman for the people of Israel. When you hear me speak to you, give them my warning. If I say to wicked people, ‘You are headed toward certain death,’ and you fail to give them warning by not speaking up to warn the evil ones against their evil courses so as to keep them alive, then the wicked ones will die for their sinful deeds. But I will hold you responsible for their deaths. But if you do warn the wicked and they keep sinning anyway, they’ll most certainly die for their sin, but you won’t die. You’ll have saved your life. And if righteous people turn away from righteous living and pursue a life of sin, I will set calamities before them, and they will die. Because you did not give them warning, they will die for their sinful deeds, and all the righteous deeds done earlier in life will not be remembered. But I will hold you responsible for their deaths. If, however, you do warn a righteous person not to sin and he responds to your warning, that person will live, and you will have also saved your life.”