Ezekiel 18:7
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;
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Ezekiel 18:7
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;
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Genesis 6:9
This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.
Genesis 6:11
The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
Genesis 6:12
God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
Genesis 7:1
Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.
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Exodus 22:22
“You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.
Exodus 22:23
If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;
Exodus 22:24
and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
Leviticus 19:9
“ ‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest.
Leviticus 19:10
You shall not glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You shall leave them for the poor and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.
Leviticus 19:34
The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.
Leviticus 25:6
The Sabbath of the land shall be for food for you; for yourself, for your servant, for your maid, for your hired servant, and for your stranger, who lives as a foreigner with you.
Deuteronomy 12:18
but you shall eat them before Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates. You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God in all that you put your hand to.
Deuteronomy 14:28
At the end of every three years you shall bring all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall store it within your gates.
Deuteronomy 14:29
The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, as well as the foreigner living among you, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.
Deuteronomy 26:12
When you have finished tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates and be filled.
Matthew 6:25
Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
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Leviticus 6:1
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Leviticus 6:2
“If anyone sins, and commits a trespass against Yahweh, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbor,
Leviticus 6:3
or has found that which was lost, and lied about it, and swearing to a lie—in any of these things that a man sins in his actions—
Leviticus 6:5
or any thing about which he has sworn falsely: he shall restore it in full, and shall add a fifth part more to it. He shall return it to him to whom it belongs in the day of his being found guilty.
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Numbers 18:19
All the wave offerings of the holy things which the children of Israel offer to Yahweh, I have given you and your sons and your daughters with you, as a portion forever. It is a covenant of salt forever before Yahweh to you and to your offspring with you.”
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Deuteronomy 22:1
You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep go astray and hide yourself from them. You shall surely bring them again to your brother.
Deuteronomy 22:2
If your brother isn’t near to you, or if you don’t know him, then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you until your brother comes looking for it, and you shall restore it to him.
Deuteronomy 22:3
So you shall do with his donkey. So you shall do with his garment. So you shall do with every lost thing of your brother’s, which he has lost and you have found. You may not hide yourself.
Deuteronomy 22:4
You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from them. You shall surely help him to lift them up again.
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Deuteronomy 23:10
If there is among you any man who is not clean by reason of that which happens to him by night, then shall he go outside of the camp. He shall not come within the camp;
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Leviticus 25:36
Take no interest from him or profit; but fear your God, that your brother may live among you.
Leviticus 25:37
You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.
Deuteronomy 23:19
You shall not lend on interest to your brother: interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on interest.
Nehemiah 5:1
Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.
Nehemiah 5:2
For there were some who said, “We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live.”
Nehemiah 5:3
There were also some who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine.”
Nehemiah 5:4
There were also some who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral.
Nehemiah 5:5
Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold, we bring our sons and our daughters into bondage to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. It is also not in our power to help it, because other men have our fields and our vineyards.”
Nehemiah 5:7
Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, “You exact usury, everyone of his brother.” I held a great assembly against them.
Nehemiah 5:11
Please restore to them, even today, their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that you are charging them.”
Ezekiel 18:17
who has withdrawn his hand from the poor, who hasn’t received interest or increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father. He shall surely live.
Ezekiel 22:12
In you have they taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,” says the Lord Yahweh.
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Job 24:7
They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.
Job 24:8
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.
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Job 29:11
For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, it commended me,
Job 29:12
because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,
Job 29:14
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.
Job 29:15
I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.
Job 29:16
I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him whom I didn’t know.
2 Timothy 1:17
but when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently and found me
2 Timothy 1:18
(the Lord grant to him to find the Lord’s mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.
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Proverbs 20:16
Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger; and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman.
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Proverbs 22:27
If you don’t have means to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?
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Job 22:7
You haven’t given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.
Psalms 41:2
Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive. He shall be blessed on the earth, and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies.
Psalms 112:9
He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.
Proverbs 11:24
There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.
Proverbs 11:25
The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.
Isaiah 58:8
Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you, and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard.
Isaiah 58:11
and Yahweh will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail.
Isaiah 58:12
Those who will be of you will build the old waste places. You will raise up the foundations of many generations. You will be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of Paths with Dwellings.
Matthew 25:41
Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;
Matthew 25:44
“Then they will also answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and didn’t help you?’
Matthew 25:45
“Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.’
Mark 14:7
For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want to, you can do them good; but you will not always have me.
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Genesis 21:25
Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.
Job 20:19
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he will not build it up.
Job 24:2
There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
Job 31:21
if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate;
Isaiah 59:7
Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.
Jeremiah 22:3
Yahweh says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.
Jeremiah 22:17
But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”
Ezekiel 7:23
“ ‘Make chains, for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
Amos 5:11
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and take taxes from him of wheat, you have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.
Amos 5:12
For I know how many are your offenses, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn away the needy in the courts.
Amos 6:3
Alas for you who put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near,
Micah 2:2
They covet fields and seize them, and houses, then take them away. They oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
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Isaiah 65:11
“But you who forsake Yahweh, who forget my holy mountain, who prepare a table for Fortune, and who fill up mixed wine to Destiny;
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Ezekiel 18:1
Yahweh’s word came to me again, saying,
Ezekiel 18:4
Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine. The soul who sins, he shall die.
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Leviticus 19:15
“ ‘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.
Leviticus 25:17
You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am Yahweh your God.
Job 30:13
They mar my path. They promote my destruction without anyone’s help.
Ezekiel 22:29
The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery. Yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.
Hosea 12:7
A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.
Amos 2:6
Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment, because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals;
Amos 2:7
They trample the heads of the poor into the dust of the earth and deny justice to the oppressed. A man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name.
Acts 9:29
preaching boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus. He spoke and disputed against the Hellenists, but they were seeking to kill him.
Hebrews 11:37
They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated—
James 2:5
Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
James 2:6
But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you and personally drag you before the courts?
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Ezekiel 24:17
Sigh, but not aloud. Make no mourning for the dead. Bind your headdress on you, and put your sandals on your feet. Don’t cover your lips, and don’t eat mourner’s bread.”
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Psalms 106:3
Blessed are those who keep justice. Blessed is one who does what is right at all times.
Ezekiel 18:21
“But if the wicked turns from all his sins that he has committed, and keeps all my statutes, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live. He shall not die.
Matthew 5:20
For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
Acts 8:22
Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.
Acts 10:35
but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.
Romans 2:6
who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:”
Romans 2:7
to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;
Romans 2:8
but to those who are self-seeking and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath, indignation,
Romans 2:13
For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified
Galatians 5:6
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision amounts to anything, but faith working through love.
Galatians 5:13
For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom an an opportunity for the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
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Matthew 6:26
See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?
Matthew 6:27
“Which of you by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan?
Matthew 7:9
Or who is there among you who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?
Matthew 7:10
Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent?
Matthew 7:11
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
Matthew 7:12
Therefore, whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
Matthew 14:16
But Jesus said to them, “They don’t need to go away. You give them something to eat.”
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Isaiah 42:3
He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a dimly burning wick. He will faithfully bring justice.
Ezekiel 18:28
Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live. He shall not die.
Ezekiel 20:11
I gave them my statutes and showed them my ordinances, which if a man does, he will live in them.
Luke 1:75
in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life.
Romans 6:16
Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
Romans 6:17
But thanks be to God that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.
Romans 6:18
Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.
Ephesians 5:9
for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,
Philippians 1:11
being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
1 Peter 2:24
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.
1 Peter 4:8
And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
1 John 3:7
Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
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Deuteronomy 24:18
but you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you there. Therefore I command you to do this thing.
Nehemiah 5:6
I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.
Nehemiah 5:10
I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. Please let us stop this usury.
Nehemiah 5:12
Then they said, “We will restore them, and will require nothing of them. We will do so, even as you say.” Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise.
Nehemiah 10:31
and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy from them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year crops and the exaction of every debt.
Psalms 15:5
he 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.
Ezekiel 18:15
who hasn’t eaten on the mountains, hasn’t lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hasn’t defiled his neighbor’s wife,
Ezekiel 22:9
Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood. In you they have eaten on the mountains. They have committed lewdness among you.
Luke 6:34
If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive back as much.
Luke 6:35
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.
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Deuteronomy 15:9
Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,” and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.
Deuteronomy 15:10
You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because it is for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you put your hand to.
Psalms 41:1
Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.
Proverbs 19:17
He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.
Matthew 25:43
I was a stranger, and you didn’t take me in; naked, and you didn’t clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you didn’t visit me.’
Luke 11:41
But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.
Acts 10:2
a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.
Romans 12:13
contributing to the needs of the saints, and given to hospitality.
Ephesians 4:28
Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.
Hebrews 13:2
Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.
James 2:16
and one of you tells them, “Go in peace. Be warmed and filled;” yet you didn’t give them the things the body needs, what good is it?
1 John 3:17
But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?
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2 Chronicles 28:15
The men who have been mentioned by name rose up and took the captives, and with the plunder clothed all who were naked among them, dressed them, gave them sandals, gave them something to eat and to drink, anointed them, carried all the feeble of them on donkeys, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brothers. Then they returned to Samaria.
Psalms 41:3
Yahweh will sustain him on his sickbed, and restore him from his bed of illness.
Matthew 5:40
If anyone sues you to take away your coat, let him have your cloak also.
Acts 10:3
At about the ninth hour of the day, he clearly saw in a vision an angel of God coming to him and saying to him, “Cornelius!”
Acts 10:4
He, fastening his eyes on him and being frightened, said, “What is it, Lord?” He said to him, “Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God.
Romans 12:20
Therefore “If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing so, you will heap coals of fire on his head.”
James 2:17
Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.
3 John 1:5
Beloved, you do a faithful work in whatever you accomplish for those who are brothers and strangers.
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Philippians 4:9
Do the things which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me, and the God of peace will be with you.
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Matthew 7:21
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 7:22
Many will tell me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?’
Matthew 7:23
Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’
Matthew 7:24
“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on a rock.
Matthew 7:25
The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it didn’t fall, for it was founded on the rock.
Matthew 7:26
Everyone who hears these words of mine and doesn’t do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.
Matthew 7:27
The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell—and its fall was great.”
Luke 11:28
But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”
John 13:17
If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
John 15:14
You are my friends if you do whatever I command you.
1 John 3:22
so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.
Revelation 22:14
Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.
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