Ezekiel 18:14

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“Now suppose this son has a son who sees all the sins his father has committed, considers them, and does not do likewise:”

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BSBPD

“Now suppose this son has a son who sees all the sins his father has committed, considers them, and does not do likewise:”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father’s sins which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like,”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father’s sins, which he hath done, and feareth, and doeth not such like;”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And--lo, he hath begotten a son, And he seeth all the sins of his father, That he hath done, and he feareth, And doth not do like them,”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Ezekiel 18:14 — 21 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 2 Kings 22:1Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years. His mother’s name was Jedidah daughter of Adaiah; she was from Bozkath.
  2. 2 Kings 22:2And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and walked in all the ways of his father David; he did not turn aside to the right or to the left.
  3. 2 Chronicles 29:3In the first month of the first year of his reign, Hezekiah opened and repaired the doors of the house of the LORD.
  4. 2 Chronicles 34:21“Go and inquire of the LORD for me and for those remaining in Israel and Judah concerning the words in the book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the LORD that has been poured out on us because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD by doing all that is written in this book.”
  5. Psalms 119:59I considered my ways and turned my steps to Your testimonies.
  6. Proverbs 17:21A man fathers a fool to his own grief; the father of a fool has no joy.
  7. Proverbs 23:24The father of a righteous man will greatly rejoice, and he who fathers a wise son will delight in him.
  8. Isaiah 44:19And no one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, “I burned half of it in the fire, and I baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and I ate. Shall I make something detestable with the rest of it? Shall I bow down to a block of wood?”
  9. Jeremiah 8:6I have listened and heard; they do not speak what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, asking, ‘What have I done?’ Everyone has pursued his own course like a horse charging into battle.
  10. Jeremiah 9:14Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts and gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.”
  11. Jeremiah 44:17Instead, we will do everything we vowed to do: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and offer drink offerings to her, just as we, our fathers, our kings, and our officials did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food and good things, and we saw no disaster.
  12. Ezekiel 18:10Now suppose that man has a violent son, who sheds blood or does any of these things,
  13. Ezekiel 18:28Because he considered and turned from all the transgressions he had committed, he will surely live; he will not die.
  14. Ezekiel 20:18In the wilderness I said to their children: ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.
  15. Hosea 7:2But they fail to consider in their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds are all around them; they are before My face.
  16. Haggai 1:5Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
  17. Haggai 1:7This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
  18. Haggai 2:18Consider carefully from this day forward—from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, the day the foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid—consider carefully:
  19. Matthew 23:32Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your fathers.
  20. Luke 15:17Finally he came to his senses and said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have plenty of food? But here I am, starving to death!
  21. 1 Peter 1:18For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life you inherited from your forefathers,

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