2 Chronicles 25:4
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4 But he did not put their children to death, according to what is written in the law, in the book of Moses, where the Lord commanded, “The parents shall not be put to death for the children or the children be put to death for the parents, but all shall be put to death for their own sins.”(A)
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Deuteronomy 24:16
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16 “Parents shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall children be put to death for their parents; only for their own crimes may persons be put to death.(A)
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Ezekiel 18:20
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20 The person who sins shall die. A child shall not suffer for the iniquity of a parent nor a parent suffer for the iniquity of a child; the righteousness of the righteous shall be their own, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be their own.(A)
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2 Kings 14:5-6
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5 As soon as the royal power was firmly in his hand, he killed his servants who had murdered his father the king.(A) 6 But he did not put to death the children of the murderers, according to what is written in the book of the law of Moses, where the Lord commanded, “The parents shall not be put to death for the children or the children be put to death for the parents, but all shall be put to death for their own sins.”(B)
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Ezekiel 18:4
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4 Know that all lives are mine; the life of the parent as well as the life of the child is mine: it is only the person who sins who shall die.(A)
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Jeremiah 31:29-30
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29 In those days they shall no longer say:
“The parents have eaten sour grapes,
and the children’s teeth are set on edge.”(A)
30 But all shall die for their own sins; the teeth of the one who eats sour grapes shall be set on edge.(B)
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