Ezekiel 18:7

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

does not oppress anyone but restores to the debtor his pledge, commits no robbery, gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment,

Cross References

Nehemiah 5:10

Moreover I and my brothers and my servants are lending them money and grain. Let us stop this taking of interest.

Job 22:6

For you have exacted pledges from your family for no reason 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

“There are those who snatch the orphan child from the breast and take as a pledge the infant of the poor.

Psalm 112:4

They rise in the darkness as a light for the upright; they are gracious, merciful, and righteous.

Psalm 112:9

They have distributed freely; they have given to the poor; their righteousness endures forever; their horn is exalted in honor.

Psalm 41:1

Happy are those who consider the poor; the Lord delivers them in the day of trouble.

Exodus 22:25

“If you lend money to my people, to the poor among you, you shall not deal with them as a creditor; you shall not exact interest from them.

Exodus 22:26

If you take your neighbor’s cloak as guarantee, you shall restore it before the sun goes down,

Exodus 23:9

“You shall not oppress a resident alien; you know the heart of an alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

Proverbs 14:31

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

Proverbs 28:27

Whoever gives to the poor will lack nothing, but one who turns a blind eye will get many a curse.

Proverbs 28:8

One who augments wealth by exorbitant interest gathers it for another who is kind to the poor.

Proverbs 3:31

Do not envy the violent, and do not choose any of their ways,

Isaiah 1:17

learn to do good; seek justice; rescue the oppressed; defend the orphan; plead for the widow.

Isaiah 33:15

Those who walk righteously and speak uprightly, who despise the gain of oppression, who wave away a bribe instead of accepting it, who stop their ears from hearing of bloodshed and shut their eyes from looking on evil,

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the people of Judah are his cherished garden; he expected justice but saw bloodshed; righteousness but heard a cry!

Jeremiah 22:3

Thus says the Lord: Act with justice and righteousness and deliver from the hand of the oppressor anyone who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the alien, the orphan, and the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place.

Ezekiel 16:49

This was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease but did not aid the poor and needy.

Ezekiel 18:12

oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not restore the pledge, lifts up his eyes to the idols, commits abomination,

Ezekiel 18:16

does not wrong anyone, exacts no pledge, commits no robbery but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment,

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 33:15

if the wicked restore the pledge, give back what they have taken by robbery, and walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity—they shall surely live; they shall not die.

Ezekiel 7:23

Make a chain! For the land is full of bloody crimes; the city is full of violence.

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 19:13

“You shall not defraud your neighbor; you shall not steal; and you shall not keep for yourself the wages of a laborer until morning.

Leviticus 19:15

“You shall not render an unjust judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great: with justice you shall judge your neighbor.

Leviticus 25:14

When you make a sale to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor, you shall not cheat 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 needy for a pair of sandals—

Amos 2:8

they lay themselves down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink wine bought with fines they imposed.

Amos 3:10

They do not know how to do right, says the Lord, those who store up violence and robbery in their strongholds.

Amos 6:3

you who put far away the evil day and bring near a reign of violence?

Micah 2:1

Woe to those who devise wickedness and evil deeds on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in their power.

Micah 3:2

you who hate the good and love the evil, who tear the skin off my people and the flesh off their bones,

Zephaniah 1:9

On that day I will punish all who leap over the threshold, who fill their master’s house with violence and fraud.

Malachi 3:5

Then I will draw near to you for judgment; I will be swift to bear witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired workers in their wages, the widow, and the orphan, against those who thrust aside the alien and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

Luke 3:11

In reply he said to them, “Whoever has two coats must share with anyone who has none, and whoever has food must do likewise.”

Deuteronomy 24:17

“You shall not deprive a resident alien or an orphan of justice; you shall not take a widow’s garment in pledge.