Ezekiel 3:18

When I say unto the wicked, thou shalt surely die ,.... Not only a corporeal but an eternal death for this is what the law threatens with, and there the Lord says this; and this is the wages, end, and issue of sin, if grace prevent not:

and thou givest him not warning ; of the evil nature of sin, and of the danger it exposes to:

nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way ; to abstain from it, and live another course of life:

to save his life ; for such warning, caution, exhortation, and doctrine, may be a means of converting a sinner from the evil of his way, and of saving a soul from death, 1 Timothy 4:16 ;

the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity ; with the pollution and guilt of sin upon him, and so be punished for it; see John 8:24 ;

but his blood will I require at thine hands ; thou shalt be answerable for him; his death shall be laid to thy charge, and thou shalt be chastised for thy negligence; see Acts 20:26 .