Ezekiel 18:8

He does not lend at interest or take unjust gain, but practices true justice. Integrity in money and judgment marks the righteous.

Cross-references · 23

• Exod 22:25If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest.
• Zech 8:16These are the things you must do: Speak truth to one another, render true and sound judgments in your gates,
• Lev 25:35–37Now if your countryman becomes destitute and cannot support himself among you, then you are to help him as you would a foreigner or stranger, so that he can continue to live among you.
• Deut 23:19–20Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or any other type of loan.
• Deut 1:16–17At that time I charged your judges: “Hear the disputes between your brothers, and judge fairly between a man and his brother or a foreign resident.
• Ezek 22:12In you they take bribes to shed blood. You engage in usury, take excess interest, and extort your neighbors. But Me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD.
• Ezek 18:13He engages in usury and takes excess interest. Will this son live? He will not! Since he has committed all these abominations, he will surely die; his blood will be on his own head.
• Ps 15:5who lends his money without interest and refuses a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.
• Deut 16:18–20You are to appoint judges and officials for your tribes in every town that the LORD your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.
• Ezek 18:17He withholds his hand from harming the poor and takes no interest or usury. He keeps My ordinances and follows My statutes. Such a man will not die for his father’s iniquity. He will surely live.
• Job 29:7–17When I went out to the city gate and took my seat in the public square,
• Isa 33:15He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, who refuses gain from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears against murderous plots and shuts his eyes tightly against evil—
• Neh 5:15The governors before me had heavily burdened the people, taking from them bread and wine plus forty shekels of silver. Their servants also oppressed the people, but I did not do this because of my fear of God.
• Isa 1:17Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”
• Lev 19:35You must not use dishonest measures of length, weight, or volume.
• Lev 19:15You must not pervert justice; you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich; you are to judge your neighbor fairly.
• Prov 31:8–9Open your mouth for those with no voice, for the cause of all the dispossessed.
• Neh 5:1–11About that time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews.
• Jer 15:10Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and conflict in all the land. I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.
• Prov 28:8He who increases his wealth by interest and usury lays it up for one who is kind to the poor.
• 2 Sam 22:24And I have been blameless before Him and kept myself from iniquity.
• Zech 7:9–10“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Administer true justice. Show loving devotion and compassion to one another.
• Jer 22:15–16Does it make you a king to excel in cedar? Did not your father have food and drink? He administered justice and righteousness, and so it went well with him.

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