Ezekiel 18:16
Or done wrong to any, or taken anything from one in his debt, or taken goods by force, but has given food to him who was in need of it, and clothing to him who was without it;
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Ezekiel 18:16
Or done wrong to any, or taken anything from one in his debt, or taken goods by force, but has given food to him who was in need of it, and clothing to him who was without it;
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Exodus 20:5
You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;
Job 24:7
They take their rest at night without clothing, and have no cover in the cold.
Job 24:8
They are wet with the rain of the mountains, and get into the cracks of the rock for cover.
Hosea 12:7
As for Canaan, the scales of deceit are in his hands; he takes pleasure in twisted ways.
Amos 4:1
Give ear to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are in the hill of Samaria, by whom the poor are kept down, and those in need are crushed; who say to their lords, Get out the wine and give us drink.
Zechariah 7:10
Do not be hard on the widow, or the child without a father, on the man from a strange country, or on the poor; let there be no evil thought in your heart against your brother.
Matthew 27:25
And all the people made answer and said, Let his blood be on us, and on our children.
James 2:6
But you have put the poor man to shame. Are not the men of wealth rulers over you? do they not take you by force before their judges?
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Exodus 22:25
If you let any of the poor among my people have the use of your money, do not be a hard creditor to him, and do not take interest.
Leviticus 25:35
And if your brother becomes poor and is not able to make a living, then you are to keep him with you, helping him as you would a man from another country who is living among you.
Leviticus 25:36
Take no interest from him, in money or in goods, but have the fear of your God before you, and let your brother make a living among you.
Leviticus 25:37
Do not take interest on the money which you let him have or on the food which you give him.
Deuteronomy 23:19
Do not take interest from an Israelite on anything, money or food or any other goods, which you let him have:
Nehemiah 5:1
Then there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their countrymen the Jews.
Nehemiah 5:2
For there were some who said, We, our sons and our daughters, are a great number: let us get grain, so that we may have food for our needs.
Nehemiah 5:3
And there were some who said, We are giving our fields and our vine-gardens and our houses for debt: let us get grain because we are in need.
Nehemiah 5:4
And there were others who said, We have given up our fields and our vine-gardens to get money for the king's taxes.
Nehemiah 5:5
But our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen, and our children as their children: and now we are giving our sons and daughters into the hands of others, to be their servants, and some of our daughters are servants even now: and we have no power to put a stop to it; for other men have our fields and our vine-gardens.
Nehemiah 5:6
And on hearing their outcry and what they said I was very angry.
Nehemiah 5:7
And after turning it over in my mind, I made a protest to the chiefs and the rulers, and said to them, Every one of you is taking interest from his countryman. And I got together a great meeting of protest.
Ezekiel 18:8
And has not given his money out at interest or taken great profits, and, turning his hand from evil-doing, has kept faith between man and man,
Ezekiel 22:12
In you they have taken rewards as the price of blood; you have taken interest and great profits, and you have taken away your neighbours' goods by force, and have not kept me in mind, says the Lord.
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Leviticus 18:19
And you may not go near a woman or have sex relations with her when she is unclean, at her regular time.
Ezekiel 18:1
The word of the Lord came to me again, saying,
Ezekiel 18:6
And has not taken flesh with the blood for food, or given worship to the images of the children of Israel; if he has not had connection with his neighbour's wife, or come near to a woman at the time when she is unclean;
Ezekiel 18:9
And has been guided by my rules and has kept my laws and done them: he is upright, life will certainly be his, says the Lord.
Ezekiel 18:10
If he has a son who is a thief, a taker of life, who does any of these things,
Ezekiel 18:11
Who has taken flesh with the blood as food, and has had connection with his neighbour's wife,
Ezekiel 22:10
In you they have let the shame of their fathers be seen; in you they have done wrong to a woman at the time when she was unclean.
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Deuteronomy 5:32
Take care, then, to do whatever the Lord your God has given you orders to do; let there be no turning away to the right hand or to the left.
Joshua 1:7
Only take heart and be very strong; take care to do all the law which Moses my servant gave you, not turning from it to the right hand or to the left, so that you may do well in all your undertakings.
2 Kings 22:2
He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, walking in the ways of David his father, without turning to the right hand or to the left.
Proverbs 4:27
Let there be no turning to the right or to the left, keep your feet from evil.
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Deuteronomy 15:7
If in any of your towns in the land which the Lord your God is giving you, there is a poor man, one of your countrymen, do not let your heart be hard or your hand shut to him;
Deuteronomy 15:8
But let your hand be open to give him the use of whatever he is in need of.
Deuteronomy 15:9
And see that there is no evil thought in your heart, moving you to say to yourself, The seventh year, the year of forgiveness is near; and so looking coldly on your poor countryman you give him nothing; and he will make an outcry to the Lord against you, and it will be judged as sin in you.
Deuteronomy 15:10
But it is right for you to give to him, without grief of heart: for because of this, the blessing of the Lord your God will be on all your work and on everything to which you put your hand.
Deuteronomy 15:11
For there will never be a time when there are no poor in the land; and so I give orders to you, Let your hand be open to your countrymen, to those who are poor and in need in your land.
Psalms 112:9
He has given with open hands to the poor; his righteousness is for ever; his horn will be lifted up with honour.
Proverbs 19:17
He who has pity on the poor gives to the Lord, and the Lord will give him his reward.
Proverbs 31:20
Her hands are stretched out to the poor; yes, she is open-handed to those who are in need.
Matthew 25:35
For I was in need of food, and you gave it to me: I was in need of drink, and you gave it to me: I was wandering, and you took me in;
Luke 6:34
And if you let those have the use of your money, from whom you are hoping to get it back, what credit is it to you? even sinners do so to sinners, hoping to get back as much as they gave.
Luke 6:35
But be loving to those who are against you and do them good, and give them your money, not giving up hope, and your reward will be great and you will be the sons of the Most High: for he is kind to evil men, and to those who have hard hearts.
Romans 12:13
Giving to the needs of the saints, ready to take people into your houses.
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Deuteronomy 24:14
Do not be hard on a servant who is poor and in need, if he is one of your countrymen or a man from another nation living with you in your land.
Deuteronomy 24:15
Give him his payment day by day, not keeping it back over night; for he is poor and his living is dependent on it; and if his cry against you comes to the ears of the Lord, it will be judged as sin in you.
Deuteronomy 24:16
Fathers are not to be put to death for their children or children for their fathers: every man is to be put to death for the sin which he himself has done.
Deuteronomy 24:18
But keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God made you free: for this is why I give you orders to do this.
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1 Kings 14:13
And all Israel will put his body to rest, weeping over him, because he only of the family of Jeroboam will be put into his resting-place in the earth; for of all the family of Jeroboam, in him only has the Lord, the God of Israel, seen some good.
1 Kings 21:29
Do you see how Ahab has made himself low before me? because he has made himself low before me, I will not send the evil in his life-time, but in his son's time I will send the evil on his family.
2 Chronicles 12:12
And when he made himself low, the wrath of the Lord was turned back from him, and complete destruction did not come on him, for there was still some good in Judah.
2 Chronicles 19:3
But still there is some good in you, for you have put away the wood pillars out of the land, and have given your heart to the worship of God.
Job 19:28
If you say, How cruel we will be to him! because the root of sin is clearly in him:
Philemon 1:6
That the faith which you have in common with them may be working with power, in the knowledge of every good thing in you, for Christ.
2 Peter 2:8
(Because the soul of that upright man living among them was pained from day to day by seeing and hearing their crimes):
2 Peter 2:9
The Lord is able to keep the upright safe in the time of testing, and to keep evil-doers under punishment till the day of judging;
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1 Kings 22:53
He was a servant and worshipper of Baal, moving the Lord, the God of Israel, to wrath, as his father had done.
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Nehemiah 9:16
But they and our fathers, in their pride, made their necks stiff, and gave no attention to your orders,
1 Peter 1:18
Being conscious that you have been made free from that foolish way of life which was your heritage from your fathers, not through a payment of things like silver or gold which come to destruction,
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Job 29:11
For when it came to their ears, men said that I was truly happy; and when their eyes saw, they gave witness to me;
Job 29:12
For I was a saviour to the poor when he was crying for help, to the child with no father, and to him who had no supporter.
Job 29:14
I put on righteousness as my clothing, and was full of it; right decisions were to me a robe and a head-dress.
Job 29:15
I was eyes to the blind, and feet to him who had no power of walking.
Job 29:16
I was a father to the poor, searching out the cause of him who was strange to me.
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Psalms 1:1
Happy is the man who does not go in the company of sinners, or take his place in the way of evil-doers, or in the seat of those who do not give honour to the Lord.
Psalms 1:2
But whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and whose mind is on his law day and night.
Psalms 1:3
He will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, which gives its fruit at the right time, whose leaves will ever be green; and he will do well in all his undertakings.
Psalms 15:1
A Psalm. Of David. Lord, who may have a resting-place in your tent, a living-place on your holy hill?
Psalms 15:2
He who goes on his way uprightly, doing righteousness, and saying what is true in his heart;
Psalms 15:5
He who does not put out his money at interest, or for payment give false decisions against men who have done no wrong. He who does these things will never be moved.
Psalms 24:4
He who has clean hands and a true heart; whose desire has not gone out to foolish things, who has not taken a false oath.
Isaiah 56:1
The Lord says, Let your way of life be upright, and let your behaviour be rightly ordered: for my salvation is near, and my righteousness will quickly be seen.
Isaiah 56:2
Happy is the man who does this, and the son of man whose behaviour is so ordered; who keeps the Sabbath holy, and his hand from doing any evil.
Luke 1:6
They were upright in the eyes of God, keeping all the rules and orders of God, and doing no wrong.
Titus 2:11
For the grace of God has come, giving salvation to all men,
Titus 2:12
Training us so that, turning away from evil and the desires of this world, we may be living wisely and uprightly in the knowledge of God in this present life;
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2 Chronicles 29:6
For our fathers have done evil, sinning in the eyes of the Lord our God, and have given him up, turning away their faces from the house of the Lord, and turning their backs on him.
2 Chronicles 29:7
The doors of his house have been shut and the lights put out; no perfumes have been burned or offerings made to the God of Israel in his holy place.
2 Chronicles 29:8
And so the wrath of the Lord has come on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has given them up to be a cause of fear and wonder and shame, as your eyes have seen.
2 Chronicles 29:9
For see, our fathers have been put to death with the sword, and our sons and daughters and wives have been taken away prisoners because of this.
2 Chronicles 29:10
Now it is my purpose to make an agreement with the Lord, the God of Israel, so that the heat of his wrath may be turned away from us.
2 Chronicles 30:7
Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were sinners against the Lord, the God of their fathers, so that he made them a cause of fear, as you see.
2 Chronicles 34:21
Go and get directions from the Lord for me and for those who are still in Israel and for Judah, about the words of this book which has come to light; for great is the wrath of the Lord which has been let loose on us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the Lord or done what is recorded in this book.
Ezra 9:7
From the days of our fathers till this day we have been great sinners; and for our sins, we and our kings and our priests have been given up into the hands of the kings of the lands, to the sword and to prison and to loss of goods and to shame of face, as it is this day.
Psalms 78:8
And not be like their fathers, a stiff-necked and uncontrolled generation; a generation whose heart was hard, whose spirit was not true to God.
Psalms 106:6
We are sinners like our fathers, we have done wrong, our acts are evil.
Psalms 106:7
Our fathers did not give thought to your wonders in Egypt; they did not keep in memory the great number of your mercies, but gave you cause for wrath at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
Zechariah 1:4
Be not like your fathers, to whom the voice of the earlier prophets came, saying, Be turned now from your evil ways and from your evil doings: but they did not give ear to me or take note, says the Lord.
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Proverbs 20:16
Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men.
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Proverbs 22:27
If you have nothing with which to make payment, he will take away your bed from under you.
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Psalms 24:5
He will have blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
Psalms 26:1
Of David. O Lord, be my judge, for my behaviour has been upright: I have put my faith in the Lord, I am not in danger of slipping.
Psalms 26:2
Put me in the scales, O Lord, so that I may be tested; let the fire make clean my thoughts and my heart.
Psalms 106:3
Happy are they whose decisions are upright, and he who does righteousness at all times.
Isaiah 33:15
He whose ways are true, and whose words are upright; he who gives no thought to the profits of false acts, whose hands have not taken rewards, who will have no part in putting men to death, and whose eyes are shut against evil;
Ezekiel 20:11
And I gave them my rules and made clear to them my orders, which, if a man keeps them, will be life to him.
Malachi 2:6
True teaching was in his mouth, and no evil was seen on his lips: he was walking with me in peace and righteousness, turning numbers of people away from evil-doing.
1 John 3:7
My little children, let no man take you out of the true way: he who does righteousness is upright, even as he is upright;
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Romans 2:11
For one man is not different from another before God.
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Ezekiel 16:16
And you took your robes and made high places for yourself ornamented with every colour, acting like a loose woman on them, without shame or fear.
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Ecclesiastes 8:12
Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and his life is long, I am certain that it will be well for those who go in fear of God and are in fear before him.
Isaiah 3:10
Happy is the upright man! for he will have joy of the fruit of his ways.
Isaiah 26:20
Come, my people, into your secret places, and let your doors be shut: keep yourself safe for a short time, till his wrath is over.
Isaiah 26:21
For the Lord is coming out of his place to send punishment on the people of the earth for their evil-doing: the earth will let the blood drained out on her be seen, and will keep her dead covered no longer.
Ezekiel 9:4
The Lord said to him, Go through the town, through the middle of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the brows of the men who are sorrowing and crying for all the disgusting things which are done in it.
Zephaniah 2:3
Make search for the Lord, all you quiet ones of the earth, who have done what is right in his eyes; make search for righteousness and a quiet heart: it may be that you will be safely covered in the day of the Lord's wrath.
Malachi 3:18
Then you will again see how the upright man is different from the sinner, and the servant of God from him who is not.
Romans 2:5
But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness;
Romans 2:6
Who will give to every man his right reward:
Romans 2:8
But to those who, from a love of competition, are not guided by what is true, will come the heat of his wrath,
Romans 2:9
Trouble and sorrow on all whose works are evil, to the Jew first and then to the Greek;
Romans 2:10
But glory and honour and peace to all whose works are good, to the Jew first and then to the Greek:
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Job 31:16
If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;
Job 31:18
(For I was cared for by God as by a father from my earliest days; he was my guide from the body of my mother;)
Job 31:20
If his back did not give me a blessing, and the wool of my sheep did not make him warm;
Proverbs 11:24
A man may give freely, and still his wealth will be increased; and another may keep back more than is right, but only comes to be in need.
Proverbs 11:25
He who gives blessing will be made fat, but the curser will himself be cursed.
Proverbs 25:21
If your hater is in need of food, give him bread; and if he is in need of drink, give him water:
Matthew 25:36
I had no clothing, and you gave it to me: when I was ill, or in prison, you came to me.
Matthew 25:42
For I was in need of food, and you gave it not to me; I was in need of drink, and you gave it not to me:
Luke 14:13
But when you give a feast, send for the poor and the blind and those who are broken in body:
Romans 12:20
But if one who has hate for you is in need of food or of drink, give it to him, for in so doing you will put coals of fire on his head.
James 1:27
The religion which is holy and free from evil in the eyes of our God and Father is this: to take care of children who have no fathers and of widows who are in trouble, and to keep oneself untouched by the world.
1 John 3:17
But if a man has this world's goods, and sees that his brother is in need, and keeps his heart shut against his brother, how is it possible for the love of God to be in him?
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2 Timothy 1:16
May the Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus because he frequently gave me help, and had no feeling of shame because I was in chains;
2 Timothy 1:17
But when he was in Rome, he went in search of me everywhere, and came to me
2 Timothy 1:18
(May he have the Lord's mercy in that day); and of all he did for me at Ephesus you have full knowledge.
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