18 And gradually they left the house of Jehovah the God of their forefathers and began serving the sacred poles+ and the idols,+ so that there came to be indignation against Judah and Jerusalem because of this guilt of theirs.+

24 “‘Now when someone righteous turns back from his righteousness and actually does injustice;+ according to all the detestable things that the wicked one has done he keeps doing+ and he is living, none of all his righteous acts that he has done will be remembered.+ For his unfaithfulness that he has committed and for his sin with which he has sinned, for them he will die.+

12 “And as for you, O son of man, say to the sons of your people, ‘The righteousness of the righteous one will not itself deliver him in the day of his revolt.+ But as regards the wickedness of the wicked one, he will not be made to stumble by it in the day of his turning back from his wickedness.+ Nor will even anyone having righteousness be able to keep living because of it in the day of his sinning.+