The word of our Lord was made to me, saying: Son of man, a watchman to the house of Israel have I given thee: & thou shalt hear the word out of my mouth, & shalt tell it them from me. If when I say to the impious: Dying thou shalt die: thou tell him not, nor speak that he may be turned away from his impious way, and live: the same impious man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at thy hand. But if thou denounce to the impious, and he be not converted from his impiety, and from his impious way: he verily shall die in his iniquity, but thou hast delivered thy soul. Yea & if the just shall be turned from his justice, & shall do iniquity: I will lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die: because thou hast not told him, he shall die in his sin, & his justices which he hath done shall not be in memory: but his blood I will require at thy hand. But if thou warn the just that the just sin not, and he do not sin: living he shall live, because thou hast warned him, & thou hast delivered thy soul.