Ezekiel 18:19

Yet say ye, Why? Rather: and ye say, wherefore doth not the son bear …? The prophet refers to the current view, and supposes it quoted as an objection to his principle. So long as the idea prevailed that the son was, so to speak, part of the father, it was natural to suppose that he should be included in the father's punishment; hence the people ask, Why doth the son not bear, lit. bear part of, share in bearing(so Ezekiel 18:20), the iniquity of the father? In opposition to this idea the prophet states his principle on both its sides, Ezekiel 18:19.

Secondly, Ezekiel 18:21. As men shall not be involved in the sins of their people or their fathers, so the individual soul shall not lie under the ban of its own past.

The sinner who turneth from his evil and doeth righteousness shall live in his righteousness, Ezekiel 18:21. And on the other hand, the righteous man who turneth away from his righteousness and doeth evil shall die in his evil, Ezekiel 18:24.