Ezk 18:1Then the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezk 18:2What do you mean by using this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers eat sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge?
Ezk 18:3As I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, the use of this parable will no longer be with you in Israel.
Ezk 18:4Indeed all souls are Mine; indeed as is the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is Mine. The soul who sins, he shall die.
Ezk 18:5But if a man is righteous and practices justice and righteousness,
Ezk 18:6And does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, and does not defile his neighbor’s wife or come near a menstruous woman;
Ezk 18:7And if a man does not oppress anyone but restores to the debtor his pledge, does not plunder but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment;
Ezk 18:8If he does not lend with interest or collect with an increase; if he withdraws his hand from iniquity and exercises true justice between man and man;
Ezk 18:9If he walks in My statutes and keeps My ordinances to do truth — he is righteous; he shall surely live, declares the Lord Jehovah.
Ezk 18:10But if he begets a violent son, one who sheds blood or does only one of these things
Ezk 18:11(Though he himself has done none of these things); if he even eats upon the mountains or defiles his neighbor’s wife,
Ezk 18:12Oppresses the poor and needy, commits plunder, does not restore the pledge, or lifts his eyes to the idols and commits abomination,
Ezk 18:13Lends with interest or collects with an increase; then will he live? He shall not live. He has committed all these abominations; he shall surely die. His blood shall be upon him.
Ezk 18:14But if he begets a son, and the son sees all the sins of his father that he has done, and he sees and does not do the like;
Ezk 18:15He does not eat upon the mountains and does not lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife,
Ezk 18:16Does not oppress anyone, does not keep the pledge and does not plunder, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment,
Ezk 18:17Takes his hand off the poor and does not collect with interest or increase, does My ordinances and walks in My statutes; he shall not die for his father’s iniquity; he shall surely live.
Ezk 18:18As for his father, because he practiced extortion, plundered his brother, and did that which was not good in the midst of his people, indeed he shall die for his iniquity.
Ezk 18:19Yet you say, Why? Does not the son share the punishment for the father’s iniquity? When the son has practiced justice and righteousness and has kept all My statutes and done them, he shall surely live.
Ezk 18:20The soul who sins, he shall die; the son shall not share the punishment for the father’s iniquity, nor shall the father share the punishment for the son’s iniquity. The righteousness of the righteous man shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked man shall be upon him.
Ezk 18:21But if the wicked man turns from all his sins that he has committed and keeps all My statutes and practices justice and righteousness, he shall surely live; he shall not die.
Ezk 18:22None of his transgressions that he has committed shall be remembered against him; because of his righteousness that he has practiced he shall live.
Ezk 18:23Do I take pleasure in the death of the wicked, declares the Lord Jehovah, and not in his turning away from his ways that he may live?
Ezk 18:24But when a righteous man turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity and commits all the abominations that the wicked man commits, will he live? None of his righteousness that he has practiced shall be remembered. Because of his unfaithfulness in which he has acted unfaithfully and because of his sin which he has sinned, because of them, he shall die.
Ezk 18:25Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not fair. Hear now, O house of Israel! Is My way not fair? Is it not your ways that are not fair?
Ezk 18:26When a righteous man turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity and dies as a consequence, because of his iniquity that he has practiced he shall die.
Ezk 18:27Again, when a wicked man turns from his wickedness that he has practiced and practices justice and righteousness, he shall save his life.
Ezk 18:28Because he sees and turns from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die.
Ezk 18:29Yet 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?
Ezk 18:30Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, each according to his ways, declares the Lord Jehovah. Repent, and turn away from all your transgressions so that iniquity will not become a stumbling block to you.
Ezk 18:31Cast away from you all your transgressions by which you have transgressed, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit; for why will you die, O house of Israel?
Ezk 18:32For I take no pleasure in the death of him who dies, declares the Lord Jehovah; therefore turn and live.
© 2016 Living Stream Ministry
All rights reserved.