Ezekiel 18:7

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

does not oppress any one, 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 brethren and my servants are lending them money and grain. Let us leave off this interest.

Job 22:6

For you have exacted pledges of your brothers for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

Job 24:3

They drive away the ass of the fatherless; they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

Job 24:9

(There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast, and take in pledge the infant of the poor.)

Psalm 112:4

Light rises in the darkness for the upright; the Lord is gracious, merciful, and righteous.

Psalm 112:9

He has distributed freely, he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures for ever; his horn is exalted in honor.

Psalm 41:1

Blessed is he who considers the poor! The Lord delivers him in the day of trouble;

Exodus 22:25

“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor, and you shall not exact interest from him.

Exodus 22:26

If ever you take your neighbor's garment in pledge, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down;

Exodus 23:9

“You shall not oppress a stranger; you know the heart of a stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Proverbs 14:31

He who oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

Proverbs 28:27

He who gives to the poor will not want, but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse.

Proverbs 28:8

He who augments his wealth by interest and increase gathers it for him who is kind to the poor.

Proverbs 3:31

Do not envy a man of violence and do not choose any of his ways;

Isaiah 1:17

learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; defend the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Isaiah 33:15

He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly, who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands, lest they hold a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed and shuts his eyes from looking upon evil,

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, a cry!

Jeremiah 22:3

Thus says the Lord: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.

Ezekiel 16:49

Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, surfeit 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 any one, 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, behold, he shall die for his iniquity.

Ezekiel 33:15

if the wicked restores the pledge, gives back what he has taken by robbery, and walks in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.

Ezekiel 7:23

and make a desolation. “Because 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; break off your sins by practicing righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the oppressed, that there may perhaps be a lengthening of your tranquillity.”

Leviticus 19:13

“You shall not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

Leviticus 19:15

“You shall do no injustice in judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.

Leviticus 25:14

And if you sell to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong 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 shoes—

Amos 2:8

they lay themselves down beside every altar upon garments taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.

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

O you who put far away the evil day, and bring near the seat of violence?

Micah 2:1

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

Micah 3:2

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

Zephaniah 1:9

On that day I will punish every one who leaps over the threshold, and those 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 a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow and the orphan, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

Luke 3:11

And he answered them, “He who has two coats, let him share with him who has none; and he who has food, let him do likewise.”

Deuteronomy 24:17

“You shall not pervert the justice due to the sojourner or to the fatherless, or take a widow's garment in pledge;