Ezekiel 18:4 - Revised Standard Version Behold, all souls are mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sins shall die. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Behold, all souls are Mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is Mine; the soul that sins, it shall die. [Rom. 6:23.] American Standard Version (1901) Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die. Common English Bible All lives are mine; the life of the parent and the life of the child belong to me. Only the one who sins will die. Catholic Public Domain Version Behold, 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. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Behold, all souls are mine: as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, the same shall die. |
But he did not put to death the children of the murderers; according to what is written in the book of the law of Moses, where the Lord commanded, “The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, or the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin.”
Let their own eyes see their destruction, and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the power of their transgression.
Thus says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread forth the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people upon it and spirit to those who walk in it:
For I will not contend for ever, nor will I always be angry; for from me proceeds the spirit, and I have made the breath of life.
But every one shall die for his own sin; each man who eats sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.
The soul that sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.
As I live, says the Lord God, this proverb shall no more be used by you in Israel.
If I say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely die,’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, in order to save his life, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand.
If I say to the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die, and you do not speak to warn the wicked to turn from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand.
An Oracle The word of the Lord concerning Israel: Thus says the Lord, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the spirit of man within him:
And they fell on their faces, and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be angry with all the congregation?”
“Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
But the scripture consigned all things to sin, that what was promised to faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
“The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor shall the children be put to death for the fathers; every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
Besides this, we have had earthly fathers to discipline us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?