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As long as I live,” declares the Lord, “you won’t use this proverb about Israel anymore. Look! Every living soul belongs to me—the father’s as well as the son’s.[a] So pay attention! The person who keeps on sinning is going to die.”

Standards of Righteous Behavior

“If a person is righteous, and practices what’s lawful and right,

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 18:4 Lit. As the soul of the father, so the soul of the son belongs to me.

“As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, you will no longer quote this proverb(A) in Israel. For everyone belongs to me, the parent as well as the child—both alike belong to me. The one who sins(B) is the one who will die.(C)

“Suppose there is a righteous man
    who does what is just and right.

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