Ezekiel 18:17

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

withholds his hand from iniquity, takes no advance or accrued interest, observes my ordinances, and follows my statutes, he shall not die for his father’s iniquity; he shall surely live.

Cross References

Job 29:16

I was a father to the needy, and I championed the cause of the stranger.

Psalm 119:1

Happy are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord.

Psalm 119:3

who also do no wrong but walk in his ways.

Proverbs 14:31

Those who oppress the poor insult their Maker, but those who are kind to the needy honor him.

Proverbs 29:14

If a king judges the poor with equity, his throne will be established forever.

Proverbs 29:7

The righteous know the rights of the poor; the wicked have no such understanding.

Jeremiah 16:19

O Lord, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in the day of trouble, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: “Our ancestors have inherited nothing but lies, worthless things in which there is no profit.

Jeremiah 22:16

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Is not this to know me? says the Lord.

Ezekiel 18:13

takes advance or accrued interest, shall he then live? He shall not. He has done all these abominable things; he shall surely be put to death; his blood shall be upon himself.

Ezekiel 18:18

As for his father, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother, and did what is not good among his people, he died for his iniquity.

Ezekiel 18:28

Because they considered and turned away from all the transgressions that they had committed, they shall surely live; they shall not die.

Ezekiel 20:18

I said to their children in the wilderness, “Do not follow the statutes of your parents, nor observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

Ezekiel 20:30

Therefore say to the house of Israel: Thus says the Lord God: Will you defile yourselves after the manner of your ancestors and go astray after their detestable things?

Ezekiel 3:21

If, however, you warn the righteous not to sin and they do not sin, they shall surely live because they took warning, and you will have saved your life.

Ezekiel 33:13

Though I say to the righteous that they shall surely live, yet if they trust in their righteousness and commit iniquity, none of their righteous deeds shall be remembered, but in the iniquity that they have committed they shall die.

Daniel 4:27

Therefore, O king, may my counsel be acceptable to you: atone for your sins with righteousness and your iniquities with mercy to the oppressed, so that your prosperity may be prolonged.”

Leviticus 18:26

But you shall keep my statutes and my ordinances and commit none of these abominations, either the native-born or the alien who resides among you

Leviticus 18:30

So keep my charge not to commit any of these abominations that were done before you and not to defile yourselves by them: I am the Lord your God.”

Leviticus 18:4

My ordinances you shall observe, and my statutes you shall keep, following them: I am the Lord your God.

Malachi 3:7

Ever since the days of your ancestors you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. But you say, “How shall we return?”

Luke 19:8

Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord, “Look, half of my possessions, Lord, I will give to the poor, and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will pay back four times as much.”

Romans 2:7

to those who by patiently doing good seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life,