2 "What do you mean by using this proverb concerning the land of Israel:
‘The fathers eat sour grapes, 18:2 Lm 5:7
and the children’s teeth are set on edge’? 18:2 Jr 31:29
20 The person who sins is the one who will die. 18:20 Ezk 18:4 A son won’t suffer punishment for the father’s iniquity, and a father won’t suffer punishment for the son’s iniquity. 18:20 Dt 24:16; Jn 9:2 The righteousness of the righteous person will be on him, 18:20 Is 3:10–11 and the wickedness of the wicked person will be on him. 18:20 Rm 2:6–9
21 "But if the wicked person turns from all the sins he has committed, 18:21 Ezk 33:12,19 keeps all my statutes, and does what is just and right, he will certainly live; he will not die.