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 inquire of Yahweh for me, and for those who are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found; for great is Yahweh’s wrath that is poured out on us, because our fathers have not kept Yahweh’s word, to do according to all that is written in this book.”
• Prov 23:24The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.
• Hos 7:2They don’t consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. They are before my face.
• 1 Pet 1:18knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,
• 2 Chr 29:3–11In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of Yahweh’s house, and repaired them.
• Isa 44:19No one thinks, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, “I have burned part of it in the fire. Yes, I have also baked bread on its coals. I have roasted meat and eaten it. Shall I make the rest of it into an abomination? Shall I bow down to a tree trunk?”
• Prov 17:21He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy.
• Jer 44:17But we will certainly perform every word that has gone out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.
• Hag 1:7This is what Yahweh of Armies says: “Consider your ways.
• Ezek 20:18I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Don’t walk in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
• Luke 15:17–19But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger!
• Ezek 18:10“If he fathers a son who is a robber who sheds blood, and who does any one of these things,
• Matt 23:32Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.
• Ezek 18:28Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live. He shall not die.
• Jer 9:14but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them.”
• Ps 119:59–60I considered my ways, and turned my steps to your statutes.
• Hag 2:18‘Consider, please, from this day and backward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, since the day that the foundation of Yahweh’s temple was laid, consider it.
• Jer 8:6I listened and heard, but they didn’t say what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, saying, “What have I done?” Everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.
• Hag 1:5Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways.

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