Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁵ If a man is righteous and practices justice and righteousness, ⁶ if he does not eat on the mountains and does not lift up his eyes to the filthy idols^[a] of the house of Israel, if he does not defile his neighbor’s wife and does not approach a woman during her period, ⁷ if he does not exploit anyone but returns the collateral given to him for a loan, if he does not seize another person’s property by force but gives his own food to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing, ⁸ if he does not deduct a fee from the money he lends to someone and he does not demand that people repay more than he lent them, if he holds back his hand from unrighteousness and administers impartial justice between two parties, ⁹ that is, if he walks in my statutes and keeps my ordinances by acting faithfully, that man is righteous and he will surely live, declares the Lord God.

¹⁰ Now if he fathers a violent son, who sheds blood or who does any one of these evil things to a brother^{[b] 11} (although the father did not do all these things), but the son goes so far as to eat on the mountains and even defiles his neighbor’s wife, ¹² exploits the poor and the needy, seizes other people’s property by force, does not return the collateral on a loan, lifts up his eyes to the filthy idols, commits abominations, ¹³ and deducts a fee from the money he lends to someone and demands that people repay more than he lent them—will he live? He will not live! He committed all these abominations, so he will surely be put to death. His blood will be upon him.

¹⁴ But if that son himself fathers a son who sees all the sins that his father has committed, and though he sees, he does not do likewise— ¹⁵ he does not eat on the mountains, he does not lift up his eyes to the filthy idols of the house of Israel, he does not defile his neighbor’s wife, ¹⁶ he does not exploit anyone, he does not require collateral for a loan, he does not seize another person’s property by force, he gives his own food to the hungry and he covers the naked with clothing, ¹⁷ he takes care not to harm the poor,^[c] he does not deduct a fee from the money he lends someone or demand that people repay more than he lent them, but he keeps my ordinances and walks according to my statutes—that man will not die because of his father’s guilt. He will surely live. ¹⁸ But his father, if he practices extortion, seizes his brother’s goods by force, and does what was not good among his own people, he will surely die because of his own guilt.