Ezekiel 22:12

New Revised Standard Version

In you, they take bribes to shed blood; you take both advance interest and accrued interest, and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; and you have forgotten me, says the Lord God.

Cross References

Nehemiah 5:1

Now there was a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish kin.

Nehemiah 5:7

After thinking it over, I brought charges against the nobles and the officials; I said to them, “You are all taking interest from your own people.” And I called a great assembly to deal with them,

Psalm 106:21

They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt,

Psalm 15:5

who do not lend money at interest, and do not take a bribe against the innocent. Those who do these things shall never be moved.

Proverbs 1:19

Such is the end of all who are greedy for gain; it takes away the life of its possessors.

Isaiah 1:23

Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not defend the orphan, and the widow's cause does not come before them.

Isaiah 17:10

For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the Rock of your refuge; therefore, though you plant pleasant plants and set out slips of an alien god,

Isaiah 56:11

The dogs have a mighty appetite; they never have enough. The shepherds also have no understanding; they have all turned to their own way, to their own gain, one and all.

Jeremiah 2:32

Can a girl forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me, days without number.

Jeremiah 3:21

A voice on the bare heights is heard, the plaintive weeping of Israel's children, because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten the Lord their God:

Jeremiah 6:13

For from the least to the greatest of them, everyone is greedy for unjust gain; and from prophet to priest, everyone deals falsely.

Jeremiah 9:1

O that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears, so that I might weep day and night for the slain of my poor people!

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 die; his blood shall be upon himself.

Ezekiel 18:8

does not take advance or accrued interest, withholds his hand from iniquity, executes true justice between contending parties,

Ezekiel 23:35

Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have forgotten me and cast me behind your back, therefore bear the consequences of your lewdness and whorings.

Ezekiel 36:12

I will lead people upon you—my people Israel—and they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance. No longer shall you bereave them of children.

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 25:37

You shall not lend them your money at interest taken in advance, or provide them food at a profit.

Amos 8:4

Hear this, you that trample on the needy, and bring to ruin the poor of the land,

Amos 8:6

buying the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, and selling the sweepings of the wheat.”

Matthew 23:13

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you lock people out of the kingdom of heaven. For you do not go in yourselves, and when others are going in, you stop them.

Matthew 23:25

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

Luke 18:11

The Pharisee, standing by himself, was praying thus, ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people: thieves, rogues, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

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.”

Luke 3:13

He said to them, “Collect no more than the amount prescribed for you.”

1 Corinthians 5:11

But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother or sister who is sexually immoral or greedy, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or robber. Do not even eat with such a one.

1 Corinthians 6:10

thieves, the greedy, drunkards, revilers, robbers—none of these will inherit the kingdom of God.

Deuteronomy 16:19

You must not distort justice; you must not show partiality; and you must not accept bribes, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.

Deuteronomy 23:19

You shall not charge interest on loans to another Israelite, interest on money, interest on provisions, interest on anything that is lent.

Deuteronomy 27:25

“Cursed be anyone who takes a bribe to shed innocent blood.” All the people shall say, “Amen!”

Deuteronomy 32:18

You were unmindful of the Rock that bore you; you forgot the God who gave you birth.

1 Timothy 3:3

not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, and not a lover of money.

Jude 1:11

Woe to them! For they go the way of Cain, and abandon themselves to Balaam's error for the sake of gain, and perish in Korah's rebellion.