Where in the Bible is this?

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This has been really bugging me, but I heard this passage from a reading as mass a few months ago and I don’t know where to find it. It said something like this (this is not an exact quotation which is why I can’t find it):

If you tell someone that they are doing wrong and they continue to do wrong, then you are not responsible for their sins. However, if you remain silent than you are just as accountable for their sins as they are.

I think this was one of the letters of St. Paul, but I’m not certain. Anyone know what Bible book/chapter/verse I’m talking about?
 
Try Eze3 3:16-21

16 And at the end of seven days, the word of the LORD came to me: 17 “Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me. 18 If I say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely die,’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, in order to save his life, that wicked person shall die for his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand. 19 But if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, or from his wicked way, he shall die for his iniquity, but you will have delivered your soul. 20 Again, if a righteous person turns from his righteousness and commits injustice, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die. Because you have not warned him, he shall die for his sin, and his righteous deeds that he has done shall not be remembered, but his blood I will require at your hand. 21But if you warn the righteous person not to sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he took warning, and you will have delivered your soul.”
 
Yes, that reading was taken from the 18th chapter of Ezekiel.

God Bless 👍
 
but wait – are we the watchmen of Israel like Ezekiel?
Or are we Jesus, encourager of the new covenant in love.
There is a story in the Bible in which a tax collector, Zaccheus
by name, tells Jesus that he gives half of everything he owns
to the poor, and if he has defrauded anyone, he pays them back
4 times over. Jesus does not say to him, “Liar! You are lying
to the Son of God!” But instead He says “salvation has come
to this house”. Jesus never went around hounding anyone,
telling them everything they did wrong, but instead always
teaching what was right. Believe me, He knew the sins of
every last person He ever encountered. And how many did He
point out their sins to?
 
Also Matthew 7:3-5 about casting beam out of thy eye and thy brother’s eye
 
But let’s not forget that Jesus was ALWAYS in perfect agreement with His Father and is quoted as saying that He did not come to abolish the old law but to fulfill it.
 
Okay, you found a passage. Is this a just use of it? I go to the gorcery store and at the checkout counter is a bunch of porno mags. I complain to the store clerk and get in big trouble sometimes. Sometimes I chew out the store manager. I’ve even been arrested! Once I was at a bus stop in Philly at a news standd and complained to two lady cops who were writing it up and some hoodie type and his “gal” threatened us with rape! It was an awesome moment! O dear! I forgot whose the wicked man?

Peace,

Gail

P.S. Dare ya moms to give it a whirl. I think of it as attacking abortion from the other end of the sin cycle.
 
Hey Cheeto1 - Why are some folks afraid to take on obvious evil and speak out against it in it’s lare? Do we forget that those who do evil are afraid themselves? Ya know like the snake in the grass that strikes at you because it is more afraid of you than you are of it!

Peace,

Gail
 
Funny how asking for a Bible passage sparks such an interesting conversation considering that I never specified why I wanted it.

Anyway, as this passage points out, we all have a responsibility to the Truth. And we not only are called to live the Truth of Jesus Christ, but also inform people when they are not following His laws. This goes against our world’s notion of letting everything be relative and no one has the right to label anything as “evil”.

That passage doesn’t imply that we should nag, be a hypocrite, or just point out flaws. But it does set a great framework as to where your responsibility for the actions of others starts and ends.
 
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