The works of Ādi Śaṅkarācārya

Sanatsujātīyam

p. 239

p. 239

पापानि कुर्वन्पापेन लिप्यते न स लिप्यते ॥

In plain words

Do evil and the evil sticks to you. He is not stuck to.

Close to the Sanskrit

Doing evils, he is smeared by evil; he is not smeared.