But every one shall die for his own iniquity; every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.
Parallel translations
- WEB But everyone shall die for his own iniquity: every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.
- KJV But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.
- BSB Instead, each will die for his own iniquity. If anyone eats the sour grapes, his own teeth will be set on edge.
- NASB But everyone will die for his own wrongdoing; each person who eats the sour grapes, his own teeth will become blunt.
- NLT All people will die for their own sins—those who eat the sour grapes will be the ones whose mouths will pucker.
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Quick answer
Each person will die for his own iniquity, bearing the consequence of his own sin. It affirms personal moral accountability before God.
Overview
Building on verse 29, the Lord affirms the principle of individual responsibility: the one who sins bears his own guilt. Scripture holds together both corporate solidarity in sin and personal accountability, and here the emphasis falls on the latter as the new-covenant era dawns. This heightens the wonder of the gospel, where Christ willingly bears the iniquity of others so that they need not die for their own (Isa. 53:6).
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Cross-references · 12
- Ezek 18:20The soul who sins, he 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 on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.
- Isa 3:11Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; for the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.
- Deut 24:16The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers. Every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
- Gal 6:5For each man will bear his own burden.
- Ezek 18:4Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins, he shall die.
- Ezek 33:18When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die therein.
- Ezek 3:18–19When I tell the wicked, ‘You will surely die;’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but I will require his blood at your hand.
- Jas 1:15Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, produces death.
- Ezek 33:8When I tell the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die, and you don’t speak to warn the wicked from his way; that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at your hand.
- Ezek 33:13When I tell the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his righteousness, and commit iniquity, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered; but in his iniquity that he has committed, therein shall he die.
- Gal 6:7–8Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
- Ezek 3:24Then the Spirit entered into me, and set me on my feet. He spoke with me, and said to me, “Go, shut yourself inside your house.
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