Safeguarding Life

⁶ ‘Do not take a pair of grindstones or even the upper millstone as security for a debt, because that is like taking a life as security.

²⁰ The person who sins is the one who will die.^(A) A son won’t suffer punishment for the father’s iniquity, and a father won’t suffer punishment for the son’s iniquity.^(B) The righteousness of the righteous person will be on him,^(C) and the wickedness of the wicked person will be on him.^(D)