Jeremiah 31:30
Good News Translation
Instead, those who eat sour grapes will have their own teeth set on edge; and everyone will die because of their own sin."

New Revised Standard Version
But all shall die for their own sins; the teeth of everyone who eats sour grapes shall be set on edge.

Contemporary English Version
When that day comes, only those who eat sour grapes will get the sour taste, and only those who sin will be put to death.

New American Bible
but all shall die because of their own iniquity: the teeth of anyone who eats unripe grapes shall be set on edge.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that shall eat the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that shall eat the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.

Deuteronomy 24:16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children for the fathers, but every one shall die for his own sin,

Isaiah 3:11 Woe to the wicked unto evil: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

Ezekiel 3:18,19,24 If, when I say to the wicked, Thou shalt surely die: thou declare it not to him, nor speak to him, that he may be converted from his wicked way, and live: the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at thy hand. . . .

Ezekiel 18:4,20 Behold all souls are mine: as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, the same shall die. . . .

Ezekiel 33:8,13,18 When I say to the wicked: O wicked man, thou shalt surely die: if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked man from his way: that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at thy hand. . . .

Galatians 6:5,7,8 For every one shall bear his own burden. . . .

James 1:15 Then, when concupiscence hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin. But sin, when it is completed, begetteth death.

Context
Mourning Turned to Joy
29In those days they shall say no more: The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the teeth of the children are set on edge. 30But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that shall eat the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.31Behold the days shall come, saith the Lord, and I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Juda:…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 24:16
The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children for the fathers, but every one shall die for his own sin,

2 Kings 14:6
But the children of the murderers he did not put to death, according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein the Lord commanded, saying: The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: but every man shall die for his own sin.

Job 21:20
His eyes shall see his own destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

Isaiah 3:11
Woe to the wicked unto evil: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

Ezekiel 18:4
Behold all souls are mine: as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, the same shall die.

Ezekiel 18:20
The soul that sinneth, the same shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, and the father shall not bear the iniquity of the son: the justice of the just shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

Jeremiah 31:29
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