Ezekiel 18:6

The righteous man avoids idolatry, adultery, and ritual defilement. Faithfulness to God shapes both worship and personal purity.

Cross-references · 23

• Ezek 18:15who has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, has not defiled his neighbor’s wife,
• Deut 4:19and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.
• Ezek 20:24because they had not executed my ordinances, but had rejected my statutes, and had profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols.
• Ezek 6:13You will know that I am Yahweh, when their slain men are among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the places where they offered pleasant aroma to all their idols.
• Ezek 18:11–12or who does not do any of those things, but even has eaten at the mountain shrines, and defiled his neighbor’s wife,
• Ezek 22:9–11Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood. In you they have eaten on the mountains. They have committed lewdness among you.
• Lev 20:18“‘If a man lies with a woman having her monthly period, and uncovers her nakedness; he has made naked her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood. Both of them shall be cut off from among their people.
• Lev 20:10“‘The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
• Num 25:2for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods. The people ate and bowed down to their gods.
• 1 Cor 6:9–11Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
• Deut 22:22–30If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both die, the man who lay with the woman and the woman. So you shall remove the evil from Israel.
• Exod 34:15“Don’t make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice;
• Ezek 20:28For when I had brought them into the land, which I swore to give to them, then they saw every high hill, and every thick tree, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering; there also they made their pleasant aroma, and they poured out there their drink offerings.
• Lev 18:19–20“‘You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.
• Jer 5:8–9They were as fed horses roaming at large: everyone neighed after his neighbor’s wife.
• Ps 123:1–2A Song of Ascents. To you I do lift up my eyes, you who sit in the heavens.
• Matt 5:28but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
• Heb 13:4Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
• Ezek 33:25–26Therefore tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood: and shall you possess the land?
• Gal 5:19–21Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,
• Ezek 20:7I said to them, ‘Each of you throw away the abominations of his eyes, and don’t defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.’
• Ps 121:1A Song of Ascents. I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from?
• 1 Cor 10:20But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God, and I don’t desire that you would have fellowship with demons.

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