Ezekiel 18

¹The worde of the Lord came vnto me againe, saying,

²What meane ye that ye speake this prouerbe, concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers haue eaten sowre grapes, and the childrens teeth are set on edge?

³As I liue, sayth the Lord God, ye shall vse this prouerbe no more in Israel.

⁴Beholde, all soules are mine, both the soule of the father, and also the soule of the sonne are mine: the soule that sinneth, it shall die.

⁵But if a man be iust, and doe that which is lawfull, and right,

⁶And hath not eaten vpon the mountaines, neither hath lift vp his eyes to the idoles of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbours wife, neither hath lyen with a menstruous woman,

⁷Neither hath oppressed any, but hath restored the pledge to his dettour: he that hath spoyled none by violence, but hath giuen his bread to the hungry, and hath couered the naked with a garment,

⁸And hath not giuen foorth vpon vsurie, neither hath taken any increase, but hath withdrawen his hand from iniquitie, and hath executed true iudgement betweene man and man,

⁹And hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my iudgements to deale truely, he is iust, he shall surely liue, sayth the Lord God.

¹⁰If he beget a sonne, that is a thiefe, or a sheader of blood, if he do any one of these things,

¹¹Though he doe not all these things, but either hath eaten vpon the mountaines, or defiled his neighbours wife,

¹²Or hath oppressed the poore and needy, or hath spoyled by violence, or hath not restored the pledge, or hath lift vp his eyes vnto the idoles, or hath committed abomination,