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Individual Responsibility. 16 Parents shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall children be put to death for their parents; only for one’s own crime shall a person be put to death.(A)

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16 Parents are not to be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin.(A)

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But their children he did not put to death, according to what is written in the book of the law of Moses, which the Lord commanded: “Parents shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall children be put to death for their parents; only for one’s own crimes shall a person be put to death.”(A)

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Yet he did not put the children of the assassins to death, in accordance with what is written in the Book of the Law(A) of Moses where the Lord commanded: “Parents are not to be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin.”[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 14:6 Deut. 24:16

27 [a](A)For the Son of Man will come with his angels in his Father’s glory, and then he will repay everyone according to his conduct.

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Footnotes

  1. 16:27 The parousia and final judgment are described in Mt 25:31 in terms almost identical with these.

27 For the Son of Man(A) is going to come(B) in his Father’s glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what they have done.(C)

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[a]His disciples asked him,(A) “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

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Footnotes

  1. 9:2 See note on Jn 5:14, and Ex 20:5, that parents’ sins were visited upon their children. Jesus denies such a cause and emphasizes the purpose: the infirmity was providential.

His disciples asked him, “Rabbi,(A) who sinned,(B) this man(C) or his parents,(D) that he was born blind?”

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