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 18:15He does not eat at the mountain or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife.
• Deut 4:19When you look to the heavens and see the sun and moon and stars—all the host of heaven—do not be enticed to bow down and worship what the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.
• Ezek 20:24For they did not practice My ordinances, but they rejected My statutes and profaned My Sabbaths, fixing their eyes on the idols of their fathers.
• Ezek 6:13Then you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and leafy oak—the places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols.
• Ezek 18:11–12though the father has done none of them: Indeed, the son eats at the mountain and defiles his neighbor’s wife.
• Ezek 22:9–11Among you are slanderous men bent on bloodshed; within you are those who eat on the mountain shrines and commit acts of indecency.
• Lev 20:18If a man lies with a menstruating woman and has sexual relations with her, he has exposed the source of her flow, and she has uncovered the source of her blood. Both of them must be cut off from among their people.
• Lev 20:10If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death.
• Num 25:2who also invited them to the sacrifices for their gods. And the people ate and bowed down to these gods.
• 1 Cor 6:9–11Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,
• Deut 22:22–30If a man is found lying with another man’s wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.
• Exod 34:15Do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat their sacrifices.
• Ezek 20:28When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them and they saw any high hill or leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices, presented offerings that provoked Me, sent up their fragrant incense, and poured out their drink offerings.
• Lev 18:19–20You must not approach a woman to have sexual relations with her during her menstrual period.
• Jer 5:8–9They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing after his neighbor’s wife.
• Ps 123:1–2A song of ascents. I lift up my eyes to You, the One enthroned in heaven.
• Matt 5:28But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
• Heb 13:4Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
• Ezek 33:25–26Therefore tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You eat meat with the blood in it, lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood. Should you then possess the land?
• Gal 5:19–21The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
• Ezek 20:7And I said to them: ‘Each of you must throw away the abominations before his eyes, and you must not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.’
• Ps 121:1A song of ascents. I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come?
• 1 Cor 10:20No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God. And I do not want you to be participants with demons.

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