Ézéchiel 18:4

Louis Segond

Voici, toutes les âmes sont à moi; l'âme du fils comme l'âme du père, l'une et l'autre sont à moi; l'âme qui pèche, c'est celle qui mourra.

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Voici, toutes les âmes sont à moi; l'âme de l'enfant est à moi comme l'âme du père; [et] l'âme qui péchera [sera] celle [qui] mourra.

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Voici, toutes les âmes sont à moi, l'âme du père comme l'âme du fils; toutes deux sont à moi; l'âme qui pèche est celle qui mourra.

Darby's French Translation
Voici, toutes les âmes sont à moi; comme l'âme du père, ainsi aussi l'âme du fils est à moi: l'âme qui péchera, celle-là mourra.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

all souls: Numbers 16:22, Numbers 27:16, Zechariah 12:1, Hebrews 12:9

the soul that: Ezekiel 18:20, Romans 6:23, Galatians 3:10-13, Galatians 3:22

Reciprocal: Genesis 2:17 - surely Genesis 5:5 - and he died Genesis 12:13 - and Exodus 32:33 - sinned Leviticus 5:1 - a soul Numbers 5:31 - bear Numbers 27:3 - died in his 2 Kings 1:4 - but shalt 2 Kings 14:6 - The fathers 2 Chronicles 25:4 - as it is written Job 19:4 - mine Jeremiah 31:30 - General Ezekiel 3:18 - I say Ezekiel 18:18 - even Ezekiel 33:8 - O wicked Ezekiel 33:13 - he shall die Romans 2:9 - soul Romans 5:12 - and death Romans 6:13 - unrighteousness Galatians 6:5 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Behold, all souls are mine,.... By creation; they being the immediate produce of his power; hence he is called "the Father of spirits", Hebrews 12:9, or the souls of men; these he has an apparent right unto; a property in; a dominion over; they are accountable to him, and will be judged impartially by him:

as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine; and therefore must be thought to have as great a respect and affection for the one as for the other; for the soul of a son as for the soul of a father; and not deal partially in favour of the one, and cruelly and unrighteously with the other:

the soul that sinneth, it shall die; the soul that continues in sin, without repentance towards God, and faith in Christ, shall die the second death; shall be separated from the presence of God, and endure his wrath to all eternity: or the meaning is, that a person that is guilty of gross sins, and continues in them, shall personally suffer; he shall endure one calamity or another, as the famine, sword, pestilence, or be carried into captivity, which is the death all along spoken of in this chapter; the Lord will exercise no patience towards him, or defer punishment to a future generation, his offspring; but shall immediately execute it upon himself.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

All souls are mine - Man is not simply to ascribe his existence to earthly parents, but to acknowledge as his Father Him who created man in His own image, and who gave and gives him the spirit of life. The relation of father to son is merged in the common relation of all (father and son alike) as sons to their heavenly Father.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 18:4. All souls are mine — Equally so; I am the Father of the spirits of all flesh, and shall deal impartially with the whole.

The soul that sinneth, it shall die. — None shall die for another's crimes, none shall be saved by another's righteousness. Here is the general judgment relative to the righteousness and unrighteousness of men, and the influence of one man's state on that of another; particularly in respect to their moral conduct.