Jeremiah 31:30

New Century Version

Instead, each person will die for his own sin; the person who eats sour grapes will grind his own teeth.

Cross References

2 Kings 14:6

But he did not put to death the children of the murderers because of the rule written in the Book of the Teachings of Moses. The Lord had commanded: “Parents must not be put to death when their children do wrong, and children must not be put to death when their parents do wrong. Each must die for his own sins.”

Job 21:20

Their eyes should see their own destruction, and they should suffer the anger of the Almighty.

Isaiah 3:11

But how terrible it will be for the wicked! They will be punished for all the wrong they have done.

Ezekiel 18:20

The person who sins is the one who will die. A child will not be punished for a parent’s sin, and a parent will not be punished for a child’s sin. Those who do right will enjoy the results of their own goodness; evil people will suffer the results of their own evil.

Ezekiel 18:4

Every living thing belongs to me. The life of the parent is mine, and the life of the child is mine. The person who sins is the one who will die.

Ezekiel 3:24

Then the Spirit entered me and made me stand on my feet. He spoke to me and said, “Go, shut yourself up in your house.

Ezekiel 33:13

If I tell good people, ‘You will surely live,’ they might think they have done enough good and then do evil. Then none of the good things they did will be remembered. They will die because of the evil they have done.

Ezekiel 33:18

When the good people stop doing good and do evil, they will die for their evil.

Ezekiel 33:8

Suppose I say to the wicked: ‘Wicked people, you will surely die,’ but you don’t speak to warn the wicked to stop doing evil. Then they will die because they were sinners, but I will punish you for their deaths.

Galatians 6:5

Each person must be responsible for himself.

Deuteronomy 24:16

Parents must not be put to death if their children do wrong, and children must not be put to death if their parents do wrong. Each person must die for his own sin.

James 1:15

This desire leads to sin, and then the sin grows and brings death.