2 "What do you people mean by using this proverb about the land of Israel, saying,
‘The fathers eat sour grapes,
18:2 I.e., the children suffer for the fathers’ sins But it is the children’s teeth that have become blunt’?
20 The person who sins will die. A son will not suffer the punishment for the father’s guilt, nor will a father suffer the punishment for the son’s guilt; the righteousness of the righteous will be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked will be upon himself.
21 "But if the wicked person turns from all his sins which he has committed and keeps all My statutes and practices justice and righteousness, he shall certainly live; he shall not die.