Berean Standard Bible

Ezekiel 18:14-20

14Now suppose this son has a son who sees all the sins his father has committed, considers them, and does not do likewise:

15He does not eat at the mountainor look to the idols of the house of Israel.He does not defile his neighbor’s wife.16He does not oppress another,or retain a pledge, or commit robbery.He gives his bread to the hungryand covers the naked with clothing.17He withholds his hand from harming the poor1and takes no interest or usury.He keeps My ordinancesand follows My statutes.

Such a man will not die for his father’s iniquity. He will surely live.

18As for his father, he will die for his own iniquity, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother, and did what was wrong among his people.

19Yet you may ask, ‘Why shouldn’t the son bear the iniquity of his father?’

Since the son has done what is just and right, carefully observing all My statutes, he will surely live.

20The soul who sins is the one who will die. A son will not bear the iniquity of his father, and a father will not bear the iniquity of his son. The righteousness of the righteous man will fall upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked man will fall upon him.

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1. Ezekiel 18:17 Hebrew; LXX He withholds his hand from iniquity ↩

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