Catholic Public Domain Version

Ezekiel 18:9-15 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

9. if he has walked in my precepts and kept my judgments, so that he acts in accord with truth, then he is just; he shall certainly live, says the Lord God.

10. But if he raises a son who is a robber, who sheds blood, and who does any of these things,

11. (even though he himself does not do any of these things,) and who eats upon the mountains, and who defiles the wife of his neighbor,

12. who grieves the needy and the poor, who seizes with violence, who does not restore the collateral, and who lifts up his eyes to idols, committing abomination,

13. who lends upon usury, and who takes an increase, then shall he live? He shall not live. Since he has done all these detestable things, he shall certainly die. His blood shall be upon him.

14. But if he raises a son, who, seeing all his father's sins that he has done, is afraid and so does not act in a way similar to him,

15. who does not eat upon the mountains, nor lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, and who does not violate the wife of his neighbor,