Deuteronomy 24:16

New International Version

Parents are not to be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 25:4

Yet he did not put their children to death, but acted in accordance with what is written in the Law, in the Book of Moses, where the Lord commanded: “Parents shall not be put to death for their children, nor children be put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin.”

Ezekiel 18:20

The one who sins is the one who will die. The child will not share the guilt of the parent, nor will the parent share the guilt of the child. The righteousness of the righteous will be credited to them, and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged against them.

Ezekiel 18:4

For everyone belongs to me, the parent as well as the child—both alike belong to me. The one who sins is the one who will die.

Daniel 6:24

At the king’s command, the men who had falsely accused Daniel were brought in and thrown into the lions’ den, along with their wives and children. And before they reached the floor of the den, the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.

Numbers 26:11

The line of Korah, however, did not die out.

1 Samuel 22:16

But the king said, “You will surely die, Ahimelek, you and your whole family.”