The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith
the Lord GOD.
EZE 14:15 If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they
spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because
of the beasts:
EZE 14:16 Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord
GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only shall be
delivered, but the land shall be desolate.
EZE 14:17 Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go
through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it:
EZE 14:18 Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord
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