Ezekiel 18:8 - Revised Standard Version does not lend at interest or take any increase, withholds his hand from iniquity, executes true justice between man and man, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 he that hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgment between man and man, Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Who does not charge interest or percentage of increase on what he lends [in compassion], who withholds his hand from iniquity, who executes true justice between man and man, American Standard Version (1901) he that hath not given forth upon interest, neither hath taken any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true justice between man and man, Common English Bible They don’t impose interest or take profit. They refrain from evil and settle cases between people fairly. Catholic Public Domain Version if he has not lent upon usury, nor taken any increase, if he has averted his hand from iniquity, and has executed true judgment between man and man, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Hath not lent upon usury, nor taken any increase: hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity and hath executed true judgment between man and man: |
The former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens upon the people, and took from them food and wine, besides forty shekels of silver. Even their servants lorded it over the people. But I did not do so, because of the fear of God.
who does not put out his money at interest, and does not take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.
“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.
He who augments his wealth by interest and increase gathers it for him who is kind to the poor.
learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; defend the fatherless, plead for the widow.
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,
Woe is me, my mother, that you bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me.
and you shall know that I am the Lord; for you have not walked in my statutes, nor executed my ordinances, but have acted according to the ordinances of the nations that are round about you.”
lends at interest, and takes increase; shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominable things; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon himself.
withholds his hand from iniquity, takes no interest or increase, observes my ordinances, and walks in my statutes; he shall not die for his father's iniquity; he shall surely live.
In you men take bribes to shed blood; you take interest and increase and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; and you have forgotten me, says the Lord God.
“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.
“You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity.
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,
“Thus says the Lord of hosts: The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah seasons of joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love truth and peace.
“When you make a vow to the Lord your God, you shall not be slack to pay it; for the Lord your God will surely require it of you, and it would be sin in you.