18:19 “Yet you say, ‘Why should the son not suffer 1 for his father’s iniquity?’ When the son does what is just and right, and observes all my statutes and carries them out, he will surely live. 18:20 The person who sins is the one who will die. A son will not suffer 2 for his father’s iniquity, and a father will not suffer 3 for his son’s iniquity; the righteous person will be judged according to his righteousness, and the wicked person according to his wickedness. 4
18:30 “Therefore I will judge each person according to his conduct, 5 O house of Israel, declares the sovereign Lord. Repent 6 and turn from all your wickedness; then it will not be an obstacle leading to iniquity. 7
33:12 “And you, son of man, say to your people, 10 ‘The righteousness of the righteous will not deliver him if he rebels. 11 As for the wicked, his wickedness will not make him stumble if he turns from it. 12 The righteous will not be able to live by his righteousness 13 if he sins.’ 14 33:13 Suppose I tell the righteous that he will certainly live, but he becomes confident in his righteousness and commits iniquity. None of his righteous deeds will be remembered; because of the iniquity he has committed he will die. 33:14 Suppose I say to the wicked, ‘You must certainly die,’ but he turns from his sin and does what is just and right. 33:15 He 15 returns what was taken in pledge, pays back what he has stolen, and follows the statutes that give life, 16 committing no iniquity. He will certainly live – he will not die. 33:16 None of the sins he has committed will be counted 17 against him. He has done what is just and right; he will certainly live.
33:17 “Yet your people 18 say, ‘The behavior 19 of the Lord is not right,’ 20 when it is their behavior that is not right. 33:18 When a righteous man turns from his godliness and commits iniquity, he will die for it. 33:19 When the wicked turns from his sin and does what is just and right, he will live because of it. 33:20 Yet you say, ‘The behavior of the Lord is not right.’ House of Israel, I will judge each of you according to his behavior.” 21
3:19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under 24 the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable to God.
1 tn Heb “lift up, bear.”
2 tn Heb “lift up, bear.”
3 tn Heb “lift up, bear.”
4 tn Heb “the righteousness of the righteous one will be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked one will be upon him.”
5 tn Heb “ways.”
6 tn The verbs and persons in this verse are plural whereas the individual has been the subject of the chapter.
7 tn Or “leading to punishment.”
8 tn Heb “turn from his way.”
9 tn Heb “ways.” This same word is translated “behavior” earlier in the verse.
10 tn Heb “the sons of your people.”
11 tn Heb “in the day of his rebellion.” The statement envisions a godly person rejecting what is good and becoming sinful. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:247-48.
12 tn Heb “and the wickedness of the wicked, he will not stumble in it in the day of his turning from his wickedness.”
13 tn Heb “by it.”
14 tn Heb “in the day of his sin.”
15 tn Heb “the wicked one.”
16 tn Heb “and in the statutes of life he walks.”
17 tn Heb “remembered.”
18 tn Heb “the sons of your people.”
19 tn Heb “way.”
20 tn The Hebrew verb translated “is (not) right” has the basic meaning of “to measure.” For a similar concept, see Ezek 18:25, 29.
21 tn Heb “ways.”
22 tn Heb “ways.”
23 tn Heb “Let it be known.”
24 tn Grk “in,” “in connection with.”