Ezekiel 18:14

Now a son of the wicked man sees his father's sins, fears God, and refuses to follow them. A person can break free from an evil family pattern.

Cross-references · 19

• 2 Chr 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.”
• Prov 23:24The father of a righteous man will greatly rejoice, and he who fathers a wise son will delight in him.
• Hos 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.
• 1 Pet 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,
• 2 Chr 29:3–11In the first month of the first year of his reign, Hezekiah opened and repaired the doors of the house of the LORD.
• Isa 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?”
• Prov 17:21A man fathers a fool to his own grief; the father of a fool has no joy.
• Jer 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.
• Hag 1:7This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
• Ezek 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.
• Luke 15:17–19Finally 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!
• Ezek 18:10Now suppose that man has a violent son, who sheds blood or does any of these things,
• Matt 23:32Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your fathers.
• Ezek 18:28Because he considered and turned from all the transgressions he had committed, he will surely live; he will not die.
• Jer 9:14Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts and gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.”
• Ps 119:59–60I considered my ways and turned my steps to Your testimonies.
• Hag 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:
• Jer 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.
• Hag 1:5Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.

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