Ezekiel 18:4
Can't you see that everyone belongs to me? Whether parents or children, they are all mine. It's the person who sins who will die.
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3As I live, declares the Lord God, you won't quote this proverb in Israel any more.
5Take the example of a man who is a good person, doing what is fair and right.
Cross References
Numbers 27:16“May the Lord, the God who gives life to all living beings, choose a man to lead the Israelites
Job 8:4Your children must have sinned against him, and so they deserved the punishment he inflicted on them.
Isaiah 57:16I won't fight with you forever; I won't be angry with you forever. Otherwise you'd lose heart, the very people I gave life to.
Ezekiel 18:20It's the person who sins who will die. A son won't pay for his father's sins, and a father won't pay for his son's sins. The good consequences of living right will come to those who are good; the evil consequences of wickedness will come to those who are evil.
Zechariah 12:1A prophecy: This message came from the Lord concerning Israel, a declaration of the Lord who spread out the heavens, who laid the foundations of the earth, and who placed the breath of life within human beings.
Galatians 3:10All those who rely on keeping the law are under a curse, for as Scripture says, “Cursed is everyone who doesn't carefully obey everything that's written in the book of the law.”
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 18:2-10
Proverb of the Sour Grapes; Reply to the Sour Grapes; Divine Judgments Vindicated. ( b. c. 593.) 1 The word of the Lord came unto me again, saying, 2 What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge? 3 As I live, saith the Lord God , ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel. 4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that… Read the whole commentary →