Ezekiel 45:9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“Thus says the Lord God: Enough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and do what is just and right. Cease your evictions of my people, says the Lord God.

Cross References

Job 20:19

For they have crushed and abandoned the poor; they have seized a house that they did not build.

Job 22:9

You have sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the orphans you have crushed.

Isaiah 1:17

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

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.

Jeremiah 6:7

As a well keeps its water fresh, so she keeps fresh her wickedness; violence and destruction are heard within her; sickness and wounds are ever before me.

Ezekiel 44:6

Say to the rebellious house, to the house of Israel: Thus says the Lord God: O house of Israel, let there be an end to all your abominations

Ezekiel 7:11

Violence has grown into a rod of wickedness. None of them shall remain, not their abundance, not their wealth; no preeminence among them.

Ezekiel 7:23

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

Ezekiel 8:17

Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, O mortal? Is it not bad enough that the house of Judah commits the abominations done here? Must they fill the land with violence and provoke my anger still further? See, they are putting the branch to their nose!

Amos 5:15

Hate evil and love good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the Lord, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

Amos 5:24

But let justice roll down like water and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

Micah 2:9

The women of my people you drive out from their pleasant houses; from their young children you take away my glory forever.

Micah 6:10

Can I forget the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked and the despicable false measure?

Zechariah 7:9

“Thus says the Lord of hosts: Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another;

Zechariah 8:16

These are the things that you shall do: speak the truth to one another, render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace,

Luke 3:14

Soldiers also asked him, “And we, what should we do?” He said to them, “Do not extort money from anyone by threats or false accusation, and be satisfied with your wages.”

1 Peter 4:3

You have already spent enough time in doing what the gentiles like to do, living in debauchery, passions, drunkenness, revels, carousing, and lawless idolatry.