Ezekiel 18:12

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oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not restore a pledge, looks to idols, and does detestable things,

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  • Ezek 8:6 : 6 And He said to me, 'Son of man, do you see what they are doing—the great abominations that the house of Israel is committing here, to drive me far from my sanctuary? But you will see even greater abominations.'
  • Ezek 8:17 : 17 And He said to me, 'Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a trivial thing for the house of Judah to commit the abominations they commit here? For they have filled the land with violence and continually anger Me. Behold, they are even putting the branch to their nose!
  • 2 Kgs 21:11 : 11 'Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these detestable things, acting more wickedly than all the Amorites who were before him, and has caused Judah to sin with his idols,'
  • Amos 4:1 : 1 Hear this word, you cows of Bashan who are on Mount Samaria, who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your masters, 'Bring us something to drink!'
  • Zech 7:10 : 10 Do not oppress the widow or the orphan, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.'
  • Ezek 18:6-7 : 6 he does not eat at the mountain shrines or look to the idols of Israel; he does not defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her impurity. 7 He does not oppress anyone, but restores a pledge for a loan; he does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and clothes the naked.
  • Ezek 18:16 : 16 He does not oppress anyone, or require a pledge for a loan, or commit robbery. He gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.
  • Hos 12:7 : 7 But you must return to your God; maintain love and justice and wait for your God continually.
  • 2 Kgs 23:13 : 13 The king also defiled the high places east of Jerusalem, on the south of the Mount of Corruption, which Solomon, the king of Israel, had built for Ashtoreth, the detestable idol of the Sidonians, for Chemosh, the detestable idol of Moab, and for Milcom, the abomination of the Ammonites.
  • Isa 59:6-7 : 6 Their webs will not become clothing, and they cannot cover themselves with their works. Their deeds are works of iniquity, and acts of violence are in their hands. 7 Their feet run to do evil, and they are quick to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful; ruin and destruction are in their paths.
  • Jer 22:17 : 17 But your eyes and heart are set only on your dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression and violence.
  • Jas 2:6 : 6 But you have dishonored the poor man. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you and drag you into court?
  • Lev 18:22 : 22 Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.
  • Lev 18:26-30 : 26 But you are to keep my statutes and my judgments. Do not commit any of these abominations, whether you are a native-born or a foreigner residing among you. 27 For all these abominations were committed by the people who lived in the land before you, and the land was defiled. 28 Make sure the land does not vomit you out when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was there before you. 29 For anyone who commits any of these detestable practices will be cut off from among their people. 30 So keep my charge not to practice any of the abominable customs that were done before you, so you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the LORD your God.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezek 18:13-18
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    84%

    13He lends at interest and takes a profit. Will such a person live? He will not! Because he has committed all these abominations, he will surely be put to death, and his blood will be on his own head.

    14Now suppose this person has a son who sees all the sins his father has committed. Though he sees them, he does not do such things:

    15He does not eat at the mountain shrines or lift his eyes to the idols of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife.

    16He does not oppress anyone, or require a pledge for a loan, or commit robbery. He gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.

    17He refrains from harming the poor, does not lend at interest or take a profit, and obeys my rules and walkthroughs my statutes. Such a person will not die for his father's sins; he will surely live.

    18But his father, because he practiced extortion, robbed his own people, and did what was not good among them—behold, he will die for his iniquity.

  • Ezek 18:5-8
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    5If a man is righteous and does what is just and right,

    6he does not eat at the mountain shrines or look to the idols of Israel; he does not defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her impurity.

    7He does not oppress anyone, but restores a pledge for a loan; he does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and clothes the naked.

    8He does not lend at interest or take a profit; he withholds his hand from injustice and judges fairly between parties.

  • Ezek 18:10-11
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    83%

    10Suppose he has a violent son who sheds blood or does any of these evil things,

    11even though the father did none of them: He eats at the mountain shrines, defiles his neighbor’s wife,

  • Ezek 22:11-13
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    79%

    11One man commits an abomination with his neighbor’s wife, another defiles his daughter-in-law with wickedness, and another violates his sister, his father’s daughter.

    12In you, they accept bribes to shed blood; they take interest and increase unlawfully. You have gained profit in extorting your neighbors, and you have forgotten me, declares the Sovereign LORD.

    13See, I will strike my hands together in anger at the dishonest gain you have made and the bloodshed that has been done in your midst.

  • Job 20:18-19
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    77%

    18He will give back the fruit of his labor but will not swallow it; like the wealth of his trade, he will not enjoy it.

    19For he has crushed and abandoned the poor; he has seized a house he did not build.

  • Ezek 22:29
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    29The people of the land practice extortion and commit robbery; they oppress the poor and needy and mistreat the foreigner, denying them justice.

  • Isa 33:15
    74%

    15The one who walks in righteousness, speaks what is right, rejects gain from extortion, shakes his hands to refuse bribes, stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil.

  • Hos 12:7
    74%

    7But you must return to your God; maintain love and justice and wait for your God continually.

  • Jer 22:17
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    17But your eyes and heart are set only on your dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression and violence.

  • Ezek 17:18
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    18He despised the oath by breaking the covenant. Though he gave his hand in pledge, he did all these things. He will not escape!

  • Amos 2:7-8
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    7'They trample on the dust of the earth on the heads of the poor and obstruct the way of the afflicted. A man and his father go to the same girl, so that they profane My holy name.'

    8'They stretch out beside every altar on garments taken in pledge, and in the house of their gods they drink wine taken as fines.'

  • Ezek 22:7-8
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    7Within you, they have treated father and mother with contempt; they have oppressed the foreigner in your midst; they have wronged the orphan and the widow.

    8You have despised my holy things and profaned my Sabbaths.

  • Amos 8:4
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    4Hear this, you who trample on the needy and seek to destroy the poor of the land,

  • Prov 14:31
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    31Whoever oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.

  • Mic 2:2
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    2They covet fields and seize them; they take houses and rob them. They oppress a man and his house, a person and their inheritance.

  • Amos 5:11-12
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    11Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact a grain tax from them, though you have built houses of cut stone, you will not live in them; though you have planted delightful vineyards, you will not drink their wine.

    12For I know your many transgressions and your mighty sins: oppressing the righteous, taking bribes, and turning aside the needy at the gate.

  • Prov 28:8
    72%

    8Whoever increases his wealth by charging interest and unfair gain gathers it for one who is kind to the poor.

  • Prov 22:16
    72%

    16One who oppresses the poor to increase their wealth and one who gives gifts to the rich will both come to poverty.

  • Jer 22:13
    72%

    13Woe to him who builds his house without righteousness and his upper rooms without justice, making his neighbor work for nothing and not paying him for his labor.

  • Job 22:6
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    6For you have taken pledges from your brothers without cause, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

  • Lev 6:2-4
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    72%

    2Command Aaron and his sons, saying: This is the law of the burnt offering. The burnt offering shall remain on the hearth of the altar all night until morning, and the fire on the altar must be kept burning.

    3The priest shall put on his linen garment and wear linen undergarments on his body. He shall remove the ashes of the burnt offering that the fire has consumed on the altar and place them beside the altar.

    4Then he shall take off his garments and put on other garments and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place.

  • Isa 10:2
    72%

    2They deprive the poor of justice and rob the rights of the needy among my people, making widows their spoil and leaving orphans to be plundered.

  • Deut 25:16
    71%

    16For anyone who does these things, anyone who deals dishonestly, is detestable to the LORD your God.

  • Hab 2:9
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    9Woe to the one who gains unjust wealth for his house, to set his nest on high, to be safe from the reach of calamity!

  • Ezek 33:15
    71%

    15if they return what they took in pledge for a loan, restore anything they have stolen, and follow the decrees that give life, doing no wrong—they will surely live; they will not die.

  • Lev 18:27
    71%

    27For all these abominations were committed by the people who lived in the land before you, and the land was defiled.

  • Prov 22:22-23
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    22Do not rob the poor because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate.

    23For the LORD will plead their case and will rob of life those who rob them.

  • Jer 5:28
    71%

    28They have grown fat and sleek. They excel in evil deeds; they do not defend the rights of the fatherless so they might prosper, nor do they uphold the cause of the needy.

  • Ezek 18:24
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    24But if a righteous person turns away from their righteousness and commits sin, doing the same detestable things the wicked do, will they live? None of the righteous deeds they have done will be remembered. Because of the unfaithfulness they are guilty of and because of the sins they have committed, they will die.

  • Deut 24:12
    71%

    12If the person is poor, do not keep their pledge overnight.

  • Hos 4:2
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    2There is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

  • Jer 7:6
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    6if you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, or follow other gods, bringing harm upon yourselves,