Ezekiel 18:5-13

5“Suppose a man is just and does what is lawful and right:

6He has not eaten at mountain shrines or lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel. He has not defiled his neighbor’s wife or come near to a woman during niddah .

7He does not wrong anyone, returns his pledge for a debt, does not commit robbery, gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment.

8He does not loan with interest or take unjust gain. He keeps his hand from iniquity, executes true justice between people,

9walks in My laws and keeps My statutes, behaving honestly. Such a person is just—he will surely live.” It is a declaration of Adonai.

10“Now suppose he fathers a son who is violent, who sheds blood and does any of these things to a brother

11(though the father himself does none of these things). He has even eaten at mountain shrines, defiled his neighbor’s wife,

12wronged the poor and needy, taken by robbery, not restored the pledge, lifted up his eyes to the idols, committed abomination,

13loaned with interest and taken unjust gain. Will he then live? He will not live! He has done all these detestable things. He will surely be put to death and his blood will be on him.