Ezekiel 18:7

The righteous man wrongs no one, returns pledges, refrains from robbery, and feeds the hungry and clothes the naked. True faith expresses itself in justice and mercy.

Cross-references · 40

• Ezek 18:16neither has wronged any, has not taken anything to pledge, neither has taken by robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;
• Ezek 18:12has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,
• Exod 22:26If you take your neighbor’s garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,
• Deut 24:12–13If he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge.
• Ezek 33:15if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
• Amos 3:10“Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says Yahweh, “Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”
• Ezek 18:18As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother, and did that which is not good among his people, behold, he shall die in his iniquity.
• Amos 2:8and they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.
• Exod 22:21–24“You shall not wrong an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
• Luke 3:11He answered them, “He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise.”
• Ezek 7:23“‘Make chains; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
• Ezek 22:27–29Her princes within it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.
• Job 31:13–22“If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me;
• Jas 5:1–6Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.
• Prov 22:22–23Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;
• 1 Sam 12:3–4Here I am. Witness against me before Yahweh, and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Of whose hand have I taken a ransom to make me blind my eyes? I will restore it to you.”
• Prov 14:31He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.
• Isa 1:17Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”
• Isa 59:6–7Their webs won’t become garments. They won’t cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of iniquity, and acts of violence are in their hands.
• Jas 2:13–17For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
• Amos 6:3Those who put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;
• Ps 112:9He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.
• Matt 25:34–46Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;
• Jer 22:3Yahweh says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.
• Isa 58:6–11“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?
• Lev 19:15“‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.
• Deut 24:17You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;
• 2 Cor 8:7–9But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also abound in this grace.
• Prov 11:24–25There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.
• 2 Cor 9:6–14Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
• Job 24:9There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,
• Ezek 22:12–13In you have they taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,” says the Lord Yahweh.
• Prov 28:27One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.
• Job 22:6For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
• Jer 22:16–17He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn’t this to know me?” says Yahweh.
• Job 24:3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
• Mic 2:1Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
• Prov 3:31Don’t envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.
• Ps 112:4Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.
• Mic 3:2You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;

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