Ezekiel 18:16

World English Bible (2000)

neither 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;

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  • Ezek 18:7 : 7 and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;
  • Luke 11:41 : 41 But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.
  • Luke 14:13 : 13 But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind;
  • Job 22:7 : 7 You haven't given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.
  • Job 31:19 : 19 if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;
  • Ps 41:1 : 1 Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.
  • Prov 22:9 : 9 He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.
  • Prov 25:21 : 21 If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat. If he is thirsty, give him water to drink:
  • Prov 31:20 : 20 She opens her arms to the poor; yes, she extends her hands to the needy.
  • Eccl 11:1-2 : 1 Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days. 2 Give a portion to seven, yes, even to eight; for you don't know what evil will be on the earth.
  • Isa 58:7-9 : 7 Isn't it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh? 8 Then your light shall break forth as the morning, and your healing shall spring forth speedily; and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of Yahweh shall be your rear guard. 9 Then you shall call, and Yahweh will answer; you shall cry, and he will say, 'Here I am.' "If you take away from the midst of you the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking wickedly; 10 and if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then your light shall rise in darkness, and your obscurity be as the noonday;

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  • Ezek 18:5-13
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    5But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful and right,

    6and has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither has defiled his neighbor's wife, neither has come near to a woman in her impurity,

    7and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

    8he who has not given forth on interest, neither has taken any increase, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man,

    9has walked in my statutes, and has kept my ordinances, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, says the Lord Yahweh.

    10If he fathers a son who is a robber, a shedder of blood, and who does any one of these things,

    11and who does not any of those [duties], but even has eaten on the mountains, and defiled his neighbor's wife,

    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,

    13has given forth on interest, and has taken increase; shall he then live? he shall not live: he has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be on him.

  • Ezek 18:17-18
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    17who has withdrawn his hand from the poor, who has not received interest nor increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.

    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.

  • Ezek 18:15
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    15who has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, has not defiled his neighbor's wife,

  • Job 22:6-7
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    6For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

    7You haven't given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

  • Isa 58:7
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    7Isn't it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?

  • Deut 24:17
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    17You shall not wrest the justice [due] to the foreigner, [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow's clothing to pledge;

  • Job 24:10
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    10So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.

  • Isa 33:15
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    15He who walks righteously, and speaks blamelessly; He who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil--

  • Job 31:19
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    19if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;

  • Ezek 33:15-16
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    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.

    16None of his sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him: he has done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.

  • 1 Sam 12:4
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    4They said, "You have not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither have you taken anything of any man's hand."

  • Jas 2:15
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    15And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,

  • Job 20:18-19
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    18That for which he labored he shall restore, and shall not swallow it down. According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice.

    19For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.

  • Prov 22:22
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    22Don't exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don't crush the needy in court;

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    10Don't oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.'

  • Deut 10:18
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    18He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.

  • Deut 24:12-14
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    12If he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge;

    13you shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless you: and it shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God.

    14You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he be of your brothers, or of your foreigners who are in your land within your gates:

  • Job 31:17
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    17or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

  • Jer 22:3
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    3Thus says Yahweh: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

  • Lev 19:15
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    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.

  • Jer 7:6
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    6if you don't oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don't shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:

  • Isa 3:7
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    7In that day he will cry out, saying, "I will not be a healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing. You shall not make me ruler of the people."

  • Ps 15:5
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    5he who doesn't lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be shaken. A Poem by David.

  • Ezek 24:22
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    22You shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.

  • Ezek 22:29
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    29The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.

  • Prov 6:30
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    30Men don't despise a thief, if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry:

  • Job 24:7
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    7They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.

  • Exod 22:25-26
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    25"If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor; neither shall you charge him interest.

    26If you take your neighbor's garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,

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    14"'If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.

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    16He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn't this to know me? says Yahweh.

  • Exod 22:11
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    11the oath of Yahweh shall be between them both, whether he hasn't put his hand to his neighbor's goods; and its owner shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution.

  • Deut 24:6
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    6No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he takes [a man's] life to pledge.

  • Prov 22:9
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    9He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.

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    2to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!