Ezekiel 18:18-20

Good News Translation

¹⁸ His father, on the other hand, cheated and robbed^[a] and always did evil to everyone. And so he died because of the sins he himself had committed.

¹⁹ “But you ask, ‘Why shouldn't the son suffer because of his father's sins?’ The answer is that the son did what was right and good. He kept my laws and followed them carefully, and so he will certainly live. ^20 (A)It is the one who sins who will die. A son is not to suffer because of his father's sins, nor a father because of the sins of his son. Good people will be rewarded for doing good, and evil people will suffer for the evil they do.