1And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

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2“Why is it that you circulate among yourselves this parable, as a proverb in the land of Israel, saying: ‘The fathers ate a bitter grape, and the teeth of the sons have been affected.’

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Lamentations 5:7, Lamentations 5:7, Jeremiah 31:29, Jeremiah 31:30, Jeremiah 31:29

3As I live, says the Lord God, this parable shall no longer be a proverb for you in Israel.

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Ezekiel 18:19, Ezekiel 18:20, Ezekiel 18:19, Ezekiel 18:20, Ezekiel 33:11

4Behold, all souls are mine. Just as the soul of the father is mine, so also is the soul of the son. The soul that sins, the same shall die.

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Ezekiel 18:20, Ezekiel 18:20, Romans 6:23, Romans 6:23, Numbers 16:22

5And if a man is just, and he accomplishes judgment and justice,

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Ezekiel 33:14, Ezekiel 33:14, 1 John 3:7, 1 John 3:7, James 1:22

6and if he does not eat upon the mountains, nor lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, and if he has not violated the wife of his neighbor, nor approached a menstruating woman,

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Ezekiel 18:15, Ezekiel 18:15, Deuteronomy 4:19, Deuteronomy 4:19, Ezekiel 22:9

7and if he has not grieved any man, but has restored the collateral to the debtor, if he has seized nothing by violence, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment,

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Ezekiel 18:16, Ezekiel 18:16, Exodus 22:26, Ezekiel 18:12, Exodus 22:26

8if he has not lent upon usury, nor taken any increase, if he has averted his hand from iniquity, and has executed true judgment between man and man,

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Exodus 22:25, Exodus 22:25, Zechariah 8:16, Zechariah 8:16, Deuteronomy 23:19

9if he has walked in my precepts and kept my judgments, so that he acts in accord with truth, then he is just; he shall certainly live, says the Lord God.

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Habakkuk 2:4, Ezekiel 20:11, Habakkuk 2:4, Ezekiel 20:11, Ezekiel 18:17

10But if he raises a son who is a robber, who sheds blood, and who does any of these things,

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Exodus 21:12, Exodus 21:12, John 18:40, Genesis 9:5, Genesis 9:6

11(even though he himself does not do any of these things,) and who eats upon the mountains, and who defiles the wife of his neighbor,

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James 2:17, John 15:14, Luke 11:28, Philippians 4:9, 1 John 3:22

12who grieves the needy and the poor, who seizes with violence, who does not restore the collateral, and who lifts up his eyes to idols, committing abomination,

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Ezekiel 8:6, Ezekiel 8:17, Ezekiel 8:6, Ezekiel 8:17, 2 Kings 21:11

13who lends upon usury, and who takes an increase, then shall he live? He shall not live. Since he has done all these detestable things, he shall certainly die. His blood shall be upon him.

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Leviticus 20:9, Ezekiel 3:18, Ezekiel 18:8, Exodus 22:25, Leviticus 20:9

14But if he raises a son, who, seeing all his father’s sins that he has done, is afraid and so does not act in a way similar to him,

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2 Chronicles 34:21, 2 Chronicles 34:21, Proverbs 23:24, Proverbs 23:24, Matthew 23:32

15who does not eat upon the mountains, nor lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, and who does not violate the wife of his neighbor,

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Ezekiel 18:6, Ezekiel 18:7, Ezekiel 18:6, Ezekiel 18:7, Ezekiel 18:11

16and who has not grieved any man, nor withheld the collateral, nor seized by violence, but instead has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment,

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Ezekiel 18:7, Ezekiel 18:7, Proverbs 25:21, Ecclesiastes 11:1, Ecclesiastes 11:2

17who has averted his hand from injuring the poor, who has not taken usury and an overabundance, who has acted according to my judgments and walked in my precepts, then this one shall not die for the iniquity of his father; instead, he shall certainly live.

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Ezekiel 18:8, Ezekiel 18:9, Ezekiel 18:8, Ezekiel 18:9, Leviticus 18:4

18As for his father, because he oppressed and did violence to his brother, and worked evil in the midst of his people, behold, he has died by his own iniquity.

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Ezekiel 3:18, Ezekiel 3:18, Ezekiel 18:20, John 8:21, Isaiah 3:11

19And you say, ‘Why has not the son borne the iniquity of the father?’ Clearly, since the son has worked judgment and justice, has observed all my precepts, and has done them, he shall certainly live.

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Exodus 20:5, Exodus 20:5, Jeremiah 15:4, Zechariah 1:3, Zechariah 1:6

20The soul that sins, the same shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, and the father shall not bear the iniquity of the son. The justice of the just man shall be upon himself, but the impiety of the impious man shall be upon himself.

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2 Kings 14:6, 2 Kings 14:6, Deuteronomy 24:16, Deuteronomy 24:16, Ezekiel 18:4

21But if the impious man does penance for all his sins which he has committed, and if he keeps all my precepts, and accomplishes judgment and justice, then he shall certainly live, and he shall not die.

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Ezekiel 33:19, Ezekiel 18:27, Ezekiel 18:28, Ezekiel 33:19, Ezekiel 18:27

22I will not remember all his iniquities, which he has worked; by his justice, which he has worked, he shall live.

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Micah 7:19, Micah 7:19, Ezekiel 33:16, Isaiah 43:25, Ezekiel 33:16

23How could it be my will that an impious man should die, says the Lord God, and not that he should be converted from his ways and live?

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Ezekiel 33:11, Ezekiel 33:11, 1 Timothy 2:4, 1 Timothy 2:4, 2 Peter 3:9

24But if a just man turns himself away from his justice, and does iniquity in accord with all the abominations that the impious man so often does, why should he live? All his justices, which he has accomplished, shall not be remembered. By the transgression, in which he has transgressed, and by his sin, in which he has sinned, by these he shall die.

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Ezekiel 33:18, Ezekiel 33:18, Proverbs 21:16, Proverbs 21:16, 2 John 1:8

25And you have said, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair.’ Therefore, listen, O house of Israel. How could it be that my way is not fair? And is it not instead your ways that are perverse?

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Ezekiel 33:17, Ezekiel 33:17, Malachi 3:13, Malachi 3:15, Malachi 3:13

26For when the just man turns himself away from his justice, and commits iniquity, he shall die by this; by the injustice that he has worked, he shall die.

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27And when the impious man turns himself away from his impiety, which he has done, and accomplishes judgment and justice, he shall cause his own soul to live.

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Isaiah 1:18, Ezekiel 18:21, Isaiah 1:18, Ezekiel 18:21, Isaiah 55:7

28For by considering and turning himself away from all his iniquities, which he has worked, he shall certainly live, and he shall not die.

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Deuteronomy 32:29, Deuteronomy 32:29, Luke 15:17, Luke 15:18, Luke 15:17

29And yet the sons of Israel say, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair.’ How could it be that my ways are not fair, O house of Israel? And is it not instead your ways that are perverse?

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Ezekiel 18:25, Ezekiel 18:25, Proverbs 19:3, Proverbs 19:3, Ezekiel 18:2

30Therefore, O house of Israel, I will judge each one according to his ways, says the Lord God. Be converted, and do penance for all your iniquities, and then iniquity will not be your ruin.

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Matthew 3:2, Matthew 16:27, Matthew 3:2, Matthew 16:27, Ezekiel 18:21

31Cast all your transgressions, by which you have transgressed, away from you, and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. And then why should you die, O house of Israel?

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Psalms 51:10, Ezekiel 36:26, Psalms 51:10, Ezekiel 36:26, Romans 8:13

32For I do not desire the death of one who dies, says the Lord God. So return and live.”

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2 Peter 3:9, 2 Peter 3:9, Ezekiel 18:23, Ezekiel 18:23, Ezekiel 33:11