Ezekiel 18:7

Modern English Version

and he has not oppressed anyone, but has restored to the debtor his pledge; has devastated no one by violence, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

Cross References

Nehemiah 5:10

Moreover, I, my relatives, and my servants are loaning them money and grain. So, I urge you, cease from this practice of usury.

Job 22:6

For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

Job 24:3

They drive away the donkey of the orphan; they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

Job 24:9

They snatch the fatherless from the breast and take a pledge from the poor.

Psalm 112:4

Unto the upright arises light in the darkness; he is gracious, compassionate, and righteous.

Psalm 112:9

He has given freely; he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures forever; his horn will be exalted with honor.

Psalm 41:1

Blessed is he who considers the poor; the Lord will deliver him in the day of trouble.

Exodus 22:25

If you lend money to any of My people who is poor among you, do not be to him a usurer, and do not lay upon him usury.

Exodus 22:26

If you take your neighbor’s garment as a pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down,

Exodus 23:9

Also you shall not oppress a foreigner, for you know the life of a foreigner, seeing you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

Proverbs 14:31

He who oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker, but he who honors Him is kind to the poor.

Proverbs 28:27

He who gives to the poor will not lack, but he who hides his eyes will receive many curses.

Proverbs 28:8

He who increases his wealth by usury and extortion gathers it for him who has pity on the poor.

Proverbs 3:31

Do not envy the oppressor and do not choose any of his ways,

Isaiah 1:17

learn to do good; seek justice, relieve the oppressed; judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Isaiah 33:15

He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly, he who rejects unjust gain and shakes his hands from holding bribes, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil:

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah His pleasant plant. Thus He looked for justice, but behold, oppression; for righteousness, but behold, an outcry!

Jeremiah 22:3

Thus says the Lord: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver the robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. And do no wrong or violence to the stranger, the fatherless, or the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

Ezekiel 16:49

Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom. Pride, abundance of bread, and careless ease was in her and in her daughters, but she did not strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

Ezekiel 18:12

has oppressed the poor and needy, has devastated by violence, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,

Ezekiel 18:16

nor has he oppressed anyone, has not withheld a pledge, nor has he devastated by violence, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

Ezekiel 18:18

As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, devastated his brother by violence, and did that which is not good among his people, behold, he shall die for his iniquity.

Ezekiel 33:15

if the wicked man restores a pledge, gives back what he had robbed, walks in the statutes of life without committing iniquity, he shall surely live. He shall not die.

Ezekiel 7:23

Make a chain, for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

Daniel 4:27

Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, in case there may be a lengthening of your prosperity.”

Leviticus 19:13

You shall not defraud your neighbor or rob him. The wages of him who is hired shall not stay with you all night until the morning.

Leviticus 19:15

You shall do no unrighteousness in a court. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor honor the person who is great, but in righteousness you shall judge your neighbor.

Leviticus 25:14

If you sell anything to your neighbor or buy anything from your neighbor, you shall not oppress one another.

Amos 2:6

Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they sell the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of sandals.

Amos 2:8

They recline by every altar on garments taken in pledge, and in the house of their gods they drink the wine from those who have been fined.

Amos 3:10

They do not know how to do right, says the Lord, storing up violence and destruction in their fortresses.

Amos 6:3

You who brush off the day of disaster, but bring on a session of lawlessness;

Micah 2:1

Woe to those who conceive wickedness, to those who devise evil on their beds! At morning’s light they execute it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Micah 3:2

You who hate good and love evil, who tear the skin from My people and the flesh from their bones;

Zephaniah 1:9

On that day I will punish all who step over the threshold, who fill their masters’ houses with violence and deceit.

Malachi 3:5

Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against the perjurers, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who turn aside the stranger, and do not fear Me, says the Lord of Hosts.

Luke 3:11

John answered, “He who has two tunics, let him give to him who has none. And he who has food, let him do likewise.”

Deuteronomy 24:17

You must not pervert the justice of the foreigner or of the fatherless, nor take a widow’s cloak as a pledge.