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the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment,
17
That
hath taken off his hand from the
poor,
that
hath not received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath walked in my
statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.
18
As for
his father, because
he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did
that
which
is
not good among his
people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.
19
Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done
that which is lawful and right,
and
hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely
live.
20
The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither
shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him,
and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
21
But if the wicked will turn from all his sins
that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall
surely live, he shall not die.
22
All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be
mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live.
23
Have I any pleasure at
all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD:
and
not that he should return from his ways,
and live?
24
But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity,
and
doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked
man
doeth, shall he live? All his
righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and
in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.
25
Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way
equal? are not your ways unequal?
26
When a righteous
man
turneth away from his righteousness,
and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.
27
Again,
when the wicked
man
turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that
which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
28
Because he considereth, and turneth away
from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
29
Yet saith
the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal?
are not your ways unequal?
30
Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according
to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn
yourselves
from all your transgressions; so
iniquity shall not be your ruin.
31
Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a
new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
32
For I have no pleasure in the
death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn
yourselves,
and live ye.
CHAPTER 19
Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
2
And say, What
is
thy mother? A
lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
3
And she brought
up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
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