Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God:for I am the LORD your God.
Parallel translations
- WEB You shall not wrong one another; but you shall fear your God: for I am Yahweh your God.
- BSB Do not take advantage of each other, but fear your God; for I am the LORD your God.
- NKJV Therefore you shall not oppress one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am the Lord your God.
- NASB So you shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am the Lord your God.
- NLT Show your fear of God by not taking advantage of each other. I am the Lord your God.
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Quick answer
Israel was again warned not to wrong one another, but to fear God. Reverence for God was the foundation of honest dealing.
Overview
God repeats the prohibition against exploitation, anchoring it in the fear of the LORD rather than mere external rules. Treating others justly flows from a heart that reveres God and remembers he is watching. This inner motivation foreshadows the gospel, where love for God reshapes how we treat our neighbor.
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Cross-references · 27
- Lev 19:14Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I am the LORD.
- Lev 19:32Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.
- Lev 25:43Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God.
- Exod 20:20And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.
- Gen 42:18And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:
- Lev 25:14And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour’s hand, ye shall not oppress one another:
- Deut 25:18How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.
- Rom 3:18There is no fear of God before their eyes.
- Prov 1:7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
- Luke 12:5But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
- Prov 22:22Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
- 1 Sam 12:24Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you.
- Rom 11:20Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
- Ps 19:9The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.
- Acts 9:31Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.
- Gen 22:12And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
- Acts 10:2A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.
- 1 Th 4:6That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
- Neh 5:15But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.
- Acts 10:35But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
- Gen 39:9There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?
- Mal 3:5And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
- Jer 22:16He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD.
- Jer 7:5–6For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
- 2 Chr 19:7Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.
- Gen 20:11And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife’s sake.
- Neh 5:9Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?
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