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if he doesn’t lend with usury or exact interest, but instead refuses to participate in[a] what is unjust, if he administers true justice between people,[b] if he lives his life[c] consistent with my statutes and keeps my ordinances by practicing what’s true, then he’s righteous and will certainly live,” declares the Lord God.

Standards of Unrighteous Behavior

10 “Now suppose that person produces a son who’s violent, a murderer, and practices any of these things,

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 18:8 Lit. instead withdraws his hand from
  2. Ezekiel 18:8 Lit. between man and man
  3. Ezekiel 18:9 Lit. he walks