Ezekiel 33:12

Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, the Lord thus, in a way, disclaiming any relation with them as His own people in the very peculiar sense in which He had originally acknowledged them, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression, that is, if he leaves his righteousness for a life of wickedness, his former good life will avail him nothing; as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall, if he duly repents of his sins and lives a life in accordance with God's will, not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness, since the Lord's forgiveness is of such a nature as to set aside all former guilt, so that it is no more remembered forever; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness, by virtue of the fact that he once was a righteous man, in the day that he sinneth. Every one who forsakes the path of righteousness and deliberately chooses the way of sin can no longer expect any consideration when he leaves the path of virtue.