Ezekiel 18:8

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does not engage in usury or charge interest, but refrains from wrongdoing, promotes true justice between men,

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  • Exod 22:25 : 25 “If you lend money to any of my people who are needy among you, do not be like a moneylender to him; do not charge him interest.
  • Zech 8:16 : 16 These are the things you must do: Speak the truth, each of you, to one another. Practice true and righteous judgment in your courts.
  • Deut 23:19-20 : 19 Respect for Others’ Property You must not charge interest on a loan to your fellow Israelite, whether on money, food, or anything else that has been loaned with interest. 20 You may lend with interest to a foreigner, but not to your fellow Israelite; if you keep this command the LORD your God will bless you in all you undertake in the land you are about to enter to possess.
  • Lev 25:35-37 : 35 Debt and Slave Regulations“‘If your brother becomes impoverished and is indebted to you, you must support him; he must live with you like a foreign resident. 36 Do not take interest or profit from him, but you must fear your God and your brother must live with you. 37 You must not lend him your money at interest and you must not sell him food for profit.
  • Ps 15:5 : 5 He does not charge interest when he lends his money. He does not take bribes to testify against the innocent. The one who lives like this will never be shaken.
  • Ezek 18:13 : 13 engages in usury and charges interest. Will he live? He will not! Because he has done all these abominable deeds he will certainly die. He will bear the responsibility for his own death.
  • Ezek 18:17 : 17 refrains from wrongdoing, does not engage in usury or charge interest, carries out my regulations and follows my statutes. He will not die for his father’s iniquity; he will surely live.
  • Ezek 22:12 : 12 They take bribes within you to shed blood. You engage in usury and charge interest; you extort money from your neighbors. You have forgotten me, declares the Sovereign LORD.
  • Zech 7:9-9 : 9 “The LORD of Heaven’s Armies said,‘Exercise true judgment and show brotherhood and compassion to each other. 10 You must not oppress the widow, the orphan, the resident foreigner, or the poor, nor should anyone secretly plot evil against his fellow citizen.’
  • Prov 28:8 : 8 The one who increases his wealth by increasing interest gathers it for someone who is gracious to the needy.
  • Prov 31:8-9 : 8 Open your mouth on behalf of those unable to speak, for the legal rights of all the dying. 9 Open your mouth, judge in righteousness, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
  • Isa 1:17 : 17 Learn to do what is right! Promote justice! Give the oppressed reason to celebrate! Take up the cause of the orphan! Defend the rights of the widow!
  • Isa 33:15 : 15 The one who lives uprightly and speaks honestly; the one who refuses to profit from oppressive measures and rejects a bribe; the one who does not plot violent crimes and does not seek to harm others–
  • Jer 15:10 : 10 Jeremiah Complains about His Lot and The Lord Responds I said,“Oh, mother, how I regret that you ever gave birth to me! I am always starting arguments and quarrels with the people of this land. I have not lent money to anyone and I have not borrowed from anyone. Yet all of these people are treating me with contempt.”
  • Jer 22:15-16 : 15 Does it make you any more of a king that you outstrip everyone else in building with cedar? Just think about your father. He was content that he had food and drink. He did what was just and right. So things went well with him. 16 He upheld the cause of the poor and needy. So things went well for Judah.’ The LORD says,‘That is a good example of what it means to know me.’
  • Deut 1:16-17 : 16 I furthermore admonished your judges at that time that they should pay attention to issues among your fellow citizens and judge fairly, whether between one person and a native Israelite or a resident foreigner. 17 They must not discriminate in judgment, but hear the lowly and the great alike. Nor should they be intimidated by human beings, for judgment belongs to God. If the matter being adjudicated is too difficult for them, they should bring it before me for a hearing.
  • Deut 16:18-20 : 18 Provision for Justice You must appoint judges and civil servants for each tribe in all your villages that the LORD your God is giving you, and they must judge the people fairly. 19 You must not pervert justice or show favor. Do not take a bribe, for bribes blind the eyes of the wise and distort the words of the righteous. 20 You must pursue justice alone so that you may live and inherit the land the LORD your God is giving you.
  • Lev 19:15 : 15 Justice, Love, and Propriety“‘You must not deal unjustly in judgment: you must neither show partiality to the poor nor honor the rich. You must judge your fellow citizen fairly.
  • Lev 19:35 : 35 You must not do injustice in the regulation of measures, whether of length, weight, or volume.
  • 2 Sam 22:24 : 24 I was blameless before him; I kept myself from sinning.
  • Neh 5:1-9 : 1 Nehemiah Intervenes on behalf of the Oppressed Then there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews. 2 There were those who said,“With our sons and daughters, we are many. We must obtain grain in order to eat and stay alive.” 3 There were others who said,“We are putting up our fields, our vineyards, and our houses as collateral in order to obtain grain during the famine.” 4 Then there were those who said,“We have borrowed money to pay our taxes to the king on our fields and our vineyards. 5 And now, though we share the same flesh and blood as our fellow countrymen, and our children are just like their children, still we have found it necessary to subject our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters have been subjected to slavery, while we are powerless to help, since our fields and vineyards now belong to other people.” 6 I was very angry when I heard their outcry and these complaints. 7 I considered these things carefully and then registered a complaint with the wealthy and the officials. I said to them,“Each one of you is seizing the collateral from your own countrymen!” Because of them I called for a great public assembly. 8 I said to them,“To the extent possible we have bought back our fellow Jews who had been sold to the Gentiles. But now you yourselves want to sell your own countrymen, so that we can then buy them back!” They were utterly silent, and could find nothing to say. 9 Then I said,“The thing that you are doing is wrong! Should you not conduct yourselves in the fear of our God in order to avoid the reproach of the Gentiles who are our enemies? 10 Even I and my relatives and my associates are lending them money and grain. But let us abandon this practice of seizing collateral! 11 This very day return to them their fields, their vineyards, their olive trees, and their houses, along with the interest that you are exacting from them on the money, the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil.”
  • Neh 5:15 : 15 But the former governors who preceded me had burdened the people and had taken food and wine from them, in addition to forty shekels of silver. Their associates were also domineering over the people. But I did not behave in this way, due to my fear of God.
  • Job 29:7-9 : 7 When I went out to the city gate and secured my seat in the public square, 8 the young men would see me and step aside, and the old men would get up and remain standing; 9 the chief men refrained from talking and covered their mouths with their hands; 10 the voices of the nobles fell silent, and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths. 11 Job’s Benevolence“As soon as the ear heard these things, it blessed me, and when the eye saw them, it bore witness to me, 12 for I rescued the poor who cried out for help, and the orphan who had no one to assist him; 13 the blessing of the dying man descended on me, and I made the widow’s heart rejoice; 14 I put on righteousness and it clothed me, my just dealing was like a robe and a turban; 15 I was eyes for the blind and feet for the lame; 16 I was a father to the needy, and I investigated the case of the person I did not know; 17 I broke the fangs of the wicked, and made him drop his prey from his teeth.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezek 18:9-19
    11 verses
    86%

    9 and follows my statutes and observes my regulations by carrying them out. That man is righteous; he will certainly live, declares the Sovereign LORD.

    10 “Suppose such a man has a violent son who sheds blood and does any of these things mentioned previously

    11 (though the father did not do any of them). He eats pagan sacrifices on the mountains, defiles his neighbor’s wife,

    12 oppresses the poor and the needy, commits robbery, does not give back what was given in pledge, prays to idols, performs abominable acts,

    13 engages in usury and charges interest. Will he live? He will not! Because he has done all these abominable deeds he will certainly die. He will bear the responsibility for his own death.

    14 “But suppose he in turn has a son who notices all the sins his father commits, considers them, and does not follow his father’s example.

    15 He does not eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains, does not pray to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife,

    16 does not oppress anyone or keep what has been given in pledge, does not commit robbery, gives his food to the hungry, and clothes the naked,

    17 refrains from wrongdoing, does not engage in usury or charge interest, carries out my regulations and follows my statutes. He will not die for his father’s iniquity; he will surely live.

    18 As for his father, because he practices extortion, robs his brother, and does what is not good among his people, he will die for his iniquity.

    19 “Yet you say,‘Why should the son not suffer for his father’s iniquity?’ When the son does what is just and right, and observes all my statutes and carries them out, he will surely live.

  • Ezek 18:5-7
    3 verses
    86%

    5 “Suppose a man is righteous. He practices what is just and right,

    6 does not eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains or pray to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife, does not approach a woman for marital relations during her period,

    7 does not oppress anyone, but gives the debtor back whatever was given in pledge, does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and clothes the naked,

  • Ps 15:5
    80%

    5 He does not charge interest when he lends his money. He does not take bribes to testify against the innocent. The one who lives like this will never be shaken.

  • Exod 22:25
    78%

    25 “If you lend money to any of my people who are needy among you, do not be like a moneylender to him; do not charge him interest.

  • Lev 25:36-37
    2 verses
    78%

    36 Do not take interest or profit from him, but you must fear your God and your brother must live with you.

    37 You must not lend him your money at interest and you must not sell him food for profit.

  • Ezek 22:12-13
    2 verses
    76%

    12 They take bribes within you to shed blood. You engage in usury and charge interest; you extort money from your neighbors. You have forgotten me, declares the Sovereign LORD.

    13 “‘See, I strike my hands together at the dishonest profit you have made, and at the bloodshed they have done among you.

  • Isa 33:15
    76%

    15 The one who lives uprightly and speaks honestly; the one who refuses to profit from oppressive measures and rejects a bribe; the one who does not plot violent crimes and does not seek to harm others–

  • Prov 28:8
    76%

    8 The one who increases his wealth by increasing interest gathers it for someone who is gracious to the needy.

  • Ezek 33:15-16
    2 verses
    75%

    15 He returns what was taken in pledge, pays back what he has stolen, and follows the statutes that give life, committing no iniquity. He will certainly live– he will not die.

    16 None of the sins he has committed will be counted against him. He has done what is just and right; he will certainly live.

  • Deut 23:19-20
    2 verses
    74%

    19 Respect for Others’ Property You must not charge interest on a loan to your fellow Israelite, whether on money, food, or anything else that has been loaned with interest.

    20 You may lend with interest to a foreigner, but not to your fellow Israelite; if you keep this command the LORD your God will bless you in all you undertake in the land you are about to enter to possess.

  • Neh 5:10
    73%

    10 Even I and my relatives and my associates are lending them money and grain. But let us abandon this practice of seizing collateral!

  • Lev 19:15
    73%

    15 Justice, Love, and Propriety“‘You must not deal unjustly in judgment: you must neither show partiality to the poor nor honor the rich. You must judge your fellow citizen fairly.

  • Ps 37:21
    72%

    21 Evil men borrow, but do not repay their debt, but the godly show compassion and are generous.

  • Deut 15:8
    72%

    8 Instead, you must be sure to open your hand to him and generously lend him whatever he needs.

  • 1 Sam 12:4
    72%

    4 They replied,“You have not wronged us or oppressed us. You have not taken anything from the hand of anyone.”

  • Jer 7:5-6
    2 verses
    72%

    5 You must change the way you have been living and do what is right. You must treat one another fairly.

    6 Stop oppressing resident foreigners who live in your land, children who have lost their fathers, and women who have lost their husbands. Stop killing innocent people in this land. Stop paying allegiance to other gods. That will only bring about your ruin.

  • Exod 22:11
    71%

    11 then there will be an oath to the LORD between the two of them, that he has not laid his hand on his neighbor’s goods, and its owner will accept this, and he will not have to pay.

  • Lev 25:14
    71%

    14 If you make a sale to your fellow citizen or buy from your fellow citizen, no one is to wrong his brother.

  • Prov 22:27
    71%

    27 If you do not have enough to pay, your bed will be taken right out from under you!

  • Prov 19:17
    71%

    17 The one who is gracious to the poor lends to the LORD, and the LORD will repay him for his good deed.

  • Exod 23:6
    71%

    6 “You must not turn away justice for your poor people in their lawsuits.

  • Deut 16:20
    71%

    20 You must pursue justice alone so that you may live and inherit the land the LORD your God is giving you.

  • Ezek 18:22
    71%

    22 None of the sins he has committed will be held against him; because of the righteousness he has done, he will live.

  • Ezek 18:24
    70%

    24 “But if a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and practices wrongdoing according to all the abominable practices the wicked carry out, will he live? All his righteous acts will not be remembered; because of the unfaithful acts he has done and the sin he has committed, he will die.

  • Ps 112:5
    70%

    5 It goes well for the one who generously lends money, and conducts his business honestly.

  • Jer 22:3
    70%

    3 The LORD says,“Do what is just and right. Deliver those who have been robbed from those who oppress them. Do not exploit or mistreat resident foreigners who live in your land, children who have no fathers, or widows. Do not kill innocent people in this land.

  • Deut 24:6
    70%

    6 One must not take either lower or upper millstones as security on a loan, for that is like taking a life itself as security.

  • Ezek 18:28
    70%

    28 Because he considered and turned from all the sins he had done, he will surely live; he will not die.

  • Deut 24:12
    70%

    12 If the person is poor you may not use what he gives you as security for a covering.

  • Deut 24:17
    70%

    17 You must not pervert justice due a resident foreigner or an orphan, or take a widow’s garment as security for a loan.

  • Job 22:7
    70%

    7 You gave the weary no water to drink and from the hungry you withheld food.

  • Zech 7:10
    70%

    10 You must not oppress the widow, the orphan, the resident foreigner, or the poor, nor should anyone secretly plot evil against his fellow citizen.’

  • Job 34:23
    70%

    23 For he does not still consider a person, that he should come before God in judgment.

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