17 he keeps his hand from [a]the poor, does not take any kind of interest on loans, but executes My ordinances, and walks in My statutes; (A)he will not die for his father’s guilt, he will certainly live. 18 As for his father, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother, and did what was not good among his people, behold, he will die for his guilt.

19 “Yet you say, ‘(B)Why should the son not suffer the punishment for the father’s guilt?’ When the son has practiced (C)justice and righteousness and has kept all My statutes and done them, he shall certainly live.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 18:17 As in MT; LXX injustice

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