Ezekiel 18:20
Context18:20 The person who sins is the one who will die. A son will not suffer 1 for his father’s iniquity, and a father will not suffer 2 for his son’s iniquity; the righteous person will be judged according to his righteousness, and the wicked person according to his wickedness. 3
Ezekiel 18:24
Context18:24 “But if a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and practices wrongdoing according to all the abominable practices the wicked carry out, will he live? All his righteous acts will not be remembered; because of the unfaithful acts he has done and the sin he has committed, he will die. 4
Ezekiel 33:11-12
Context33:11 Say to them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but prefer that the wicked change his behavior 5 and live. Turn back, turn back from your evil deeds! 6 Why should you die, O house of Israel?’
33:12 “And you, son of man, say to your people, 7 ‘The righteousness of the righteous will not deliver him if he rebels. 8 As for the wicked, his wickedness will not make him stumble if he turns from it. 9 The righteous will not be able to live by his righteousness 10 if he sins.’ 11


[18:20] 1 tn Heb “lift up, bear.”
[18:20] 2 tn Heb “lift up, bear.”
[18:20] 3 tn Heb “the righteousness of the righteous one will be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked one will be upon him.”
[18:24] 4 tn Heb “because of them he will die.”
[33:11] 7 tn Heb “turn from his way.”
[33:11] 8 tn Heb “ways.” This same word is translated “behavior” earlier in the verse.
[33:12] 10 tn Heb “the sons of your people.”
[33:12] 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.
[33:12] 12 tn Heb “and the wickedness of the wicked, he will not stumble in it in the day of his turning from his wickedness.”