Ezekiel 18

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Eze 18:1 And the Word of Jehovah was to me, saying,
Eze 18:2 What is it to you that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the teeth of the sons are dull?
Eze 18:3 As I live, states the Lord Jehovah, there is not any longer occasion to you to use this proverb in Israel.
Eze 18:4 Behold, they are all My souls. As the soul of the father, also the soul of the son, they are Mine. The soul that sins, it shall die.
Eze 18:5 But a man that is righteous and does what is just and right,
Eze 18:6 who has not eaten on the mountains, and his eyes have not lifted up to the idols of the house of Israel, and has not defiled his neighbor’s wife, and has not come near to a menstruating woman,
Eze 18:7 and has not oppressed a man (he returns his pledge to the debtor and has not robbed by robbery), has given his bread to the hungry, and he has covered the naked with clothing.
Eze 18:8 He has not given on interest, and he has not taken increase; he has turned his hand from injustice, having done true justice between man and man.
Eze 18:9 He has walked in My statutes and has kept My judgments to deal truly; he is righteous. Living he shall live, declares the Lord Jehovah.
Eze 18:10 And if he fathers a violent son, who sheds blood and does to a brother any of these;
Eze 18:11 even if he does not do any of these himself; that also the son he has eaten on the mountains, and has defiled his neighbor’s wife;
Eze 18:12 he has oppressed the poor and needy; thieving, he stole; he has not returned the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols; he has committed abomination;
Eze 18:13 he has given on interest and has taken increase; shall he also live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations; dying he shall die; his blood shall be on him.
Eze 18:14 Now, behold! If he fathers a son who sees all his father’s sins which he has done, and sees, and does not do like them;
Eze 18:15 he has not eaten on the mountains, and has not lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel; he has not defiled his neighbor’s wife,
Eze 18:16 and has not oppressed a man, has not withheld the pledge, and has not robbed by robbery; he has given his bread to the hungry, and he has covered the naked with clothing,
Eze 18:17 has turned back his hand off the poor, and has not received interest and increase. He has done My judgments, has walked in My statutes. He shall not die for the iniquity of his father. Living he shall live.
Eze 18:18 His father, because he did extortion, robbed his brother by robbery, and did what is not good among his people, behold, even he shall die in his iniquity.
Eze 18:19 Yet you say, Why? Does not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son has done justice and righteousness, he has kept all My statutes and has done them, living he shall live.
Eze 18:20 The soul that sins, it shall die. A son shall not bear the iniquity of the father. And a father shall not bear the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.
Eze 18:21 But the wicked, if he will turn from all his sins which he has done, and keep all My statutes, and do justice and righteousness, living he shall live; he shall not die.
Eze 18:22 All his transgressions that he has done, they shall not be recalled to him in his righteousness which he has done; he shall live.
Eze 18:23 Delighting, do I delight in the death of the wicked? declares the Lord Jehovah. Is it not that he should turn from his ways and live?
Eze 18:24 But when the righteous turns from his righteousness and does injustice, according to all the abominations that the wicked do, he does, shall he live? All his righteousness that he has done shall not be remembered in his treason that he has betrayed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die.
Eze 18:25 Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not fair. Hear now, O house of Israel. Is My way not fair? Are your ways not unfair?
Eze 18:26 When a righteous one turns from his righteousness and does injustice and dies in them, he shall die for his injustice which he has done.
Eze 18:27 And when the wicked turns from his wickedness that he has done and does justice and righteousness, he shall keep his soul alive.
Eze 18:28 Because he sees and turns from all his transgressions that he has done, living he shall live; he shall not die.
Eze 18:29 But the house of Israel says, The way of the Lord is not fair. Are My ways not fair, O house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are not fair?
Eze 18:30 I will judge you, each man by his ways, O house of Israel, declares the Lord Jehovah. Turn and be made to turn from all your transgressions, and iniquity shall not be a stumbling-block to you.
Eze 18:31 Cast away all your transgressions from you by which you have transgressed in them, and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit; for why will you die, O house of Israel?
Eze 18:32 For I do not have delight in the death of him who dies, declares the Lord Jehovah. So turn and live.

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