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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Ezekiel 18 New Heart English Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/ezekiel/18.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/ezekiel/18-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NHEB</a> > Ezekiel 18</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../ezekiel/17.htm" title="Ezekiel 17">◄</a> Ezekiel 18 <a href="../ezekiel/19.htm" title="Ezekiel 19">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">New Heart English Bible</div><div class="chap"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/ezekiel/18-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The word of the LORD came to me again, saying,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/ezekiel/18-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>"What do you mean, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?'<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/ezekiel/18-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>As I live, says the Lord GOD, you shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/ezekiel/18-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Look, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins, he shall die.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/ezekiel/18-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>"But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful and right, <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/ezekiel/18-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>and has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither has defiled his neighbor's wife, neither has come near to a woman in her impurity, <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/ezekiel/18-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment; <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/ezekiel/18-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>he who has not given forth on interest, neither has taken any increase, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man, <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/ezekiel/18-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>has walked in my statutes, and has kept my ordinances, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live," says the Lord GOD.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/ezekiel/18-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>"If he fathers a son who is a robber, a shedder of blood, and who does any one of these things, <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/ezekiel/18-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>and who does not any of those duties, but even has eaten on the mountains, and defiled his neighbor's wife, <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/ezekiel/18-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination, <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/ezekiel/18-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>has given forth on interest, and has taken increase; shall he then live? He shall not live: he has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be on him.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/ezekiel/18-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>"Now, look, if he fathers a son, who sees all his father's sins, which he has done, and fears, and does not such like; <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/ezekiel/18-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>who has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, has not defiled his neighbor's wife, <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/ezekiel/18-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>neither has wronged any, has not taken anything to pledge, neither has taken by robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment; <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/ezekiel/18-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>who has withdrawn his hand from the poor, who has not received interest nor increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/ezekiel/18-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother, and did that which is not good among his people, look, he shall die in his iniquity.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/ezekiel/18-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>"Yet you say, 'Why doesn't the son bear the iniquity of the father?' When the son has done that which is lawful and right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/ezekiel/18-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>The soul who sins, he shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/ezekiel/18-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>"But if the wicked turn from all his sins that he has committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/ezekiel/18-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>None of his transgressions that he has committed shall be remembered against him: in his righteousness that he has done he shall live. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/ezekiel/18-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked?" says the Lord GOD; "and not rather that he should return from his way, and live?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/ezekiel/18-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered: in his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them shall he die. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/ezekiel/18-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>"'Yet you say, "The way of the LORD is not just." Hear now, house of Israel: "Is my way not just? Aren't your ways unjust?" <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/ezekiel/18-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>When the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies in it; in his iniquity that he has done shall he die. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/ezekiel/18-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/ezekiel/18-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/ezekiel/18-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Yet the house of Israel says, "The way of the LORD is not just." "House of Israel, aren't my ways just? Aren't your ways unjust?"<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/ezekiel/18-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>"'Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways,' says the Lord GOD. 'Return, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/ezekiel/18-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel? <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/ezekiel/18-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies,' says the Lord GOD: 'therefore turn yourselves, and live.'"<p></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><a href="//nheb.net/">New Heart English Bible</a><br />Edited by Wayne A. 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