Ezekiel 18:19-21

Good News Translation

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.

²¹ “If someone evil stops sinning and keeps my laws, if he does what is right and good, he will not die; he will certainly live.