Ezekiel 18:8
he who hasn’t lent to them with interest, hasn’t taken any increase from them, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man,
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Ezekiel 18:8
he who hasn’t lent to them with interest, hasn’t taken any increase from them, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man,
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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.
2 Samuel 22:24
I was also perfect toward him. I kept myself from my iniquity.
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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 22:21
“You shall not wrong an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
Exodus 23:6
“You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.
Exodus 23:7
“Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked.
Exodus 23:8
“You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.
Exodus 23:9
“You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
Leviticus 19:16
“ ‘You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people. “ ‘You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.
Leviticus 19:17
“ ‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.
Leviticus 19:18
“ ‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.
Deuteronomy 10:18
He executes justice for the fatherless and widow and loves the foreigner in giving him food and clothing.
Deuteronomy 10:19
Therefore love the foreigner, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 24:14
You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the foreigners who are in your land within your gates.
Isaiah 1:17
Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”
Isaiah 1:23
Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.
Jeremiah 7:6
if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, and don’t walk after other gods to your own hurt,
Hosea 12:7
A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.
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Exodus 22:27
for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.
2 Kings 4:1
Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves.”
2 Kings 4:7
Then she came and told the man of God. He said, “Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt; and you and your sons live on the rest.”
Ecclesiastes 12:7
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Isaiah 24:2
It will be as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest.
Matthew 25:27
You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest.
Luke 19:23
Then why didn’t you deposit my money in the bank, and at my coming, I might have earned interest on it?’
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Leviticus 18:4
You shall do my ordinances. You shall keep my statutes and walk in them. I am Yahweh your God.
Leviticus 18:26
You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you
Leviticus 18:30
Therefore you shall keep my requirements, that you do not practice any of these abominable customs which were practiced before you, and that you do not defile yourselves with them. I am Yahweh your God.’ ”
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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.
Deuteronomy 24:19
When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
Deuteronomy 24:20
When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
Deuteronomy 24:21
When you harvest your vineyard, you shall not glean it after yourselves. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
Deuteronomy 24:22
You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt. Therefore I command you to do this thing.
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Leviticus 19:35
“ ‘You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.
Deuteronomy 1:17
You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.”
Deuteronomy 16:18
You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
Deuteronomy 16:19
You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.
Deuteronomy 16:20
You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may live and inherit the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
Isaiah 33:15
He 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 bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil—
Hosea 12:6
Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.
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Judges 5:1
Then Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam sang on that day, saying,
Judges 21:12
They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young virgins who had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them to the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
1 Kings 6:12
“Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes, and execute my ordinances, and keep all my commandments to walk in them, then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.
1 Kings 6:13
I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.”
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Job 27:17
he may prepare it, but the just will put it on, and the innocent will divide the silver.
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Proverbs 13:22
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.
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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 5:13
Also I shook out my lap, and said, “So may God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, that doesn’t perform this promise; even may he be shaken out and emptied like this.” All the assembly said, “Amen,” and praised Yahweh. The people did according to this promise.
Nehemiah 5:15
But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, plus forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants ruled over the people, but I didn’t do so, because of the fear of God.
Job 31:13
“If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me,
Proverbs 14:31
He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.
Proverbs 29:7
The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren’t concerned about knowledge.
Isaiah 16:3
Give counsel! Execute justice! Make your shade like the night in the middle of the noonday! Hide the outcasts! Don’t betray the fugitive!
Isaiah 58:6
“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?
Jeremiah 22:16
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; so then it was well. Wasn’t this to know me?” says Yahweh.
Matthew 18:28
“But that servant went out and found one of his fellow servants who owed him one hundred denarii, and he grabbed him and took him by the throat, saying, ‘Pay me what you owe!’
Matthew 18:29
“So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, ‘Have patience with me, and I will repay you!’
Matthew 18:30
He would not, but went and cast him into prison until he should pay back that which was due.
Matthew 18:31
So when his fellow servants saw what was done, they were exceedingly sorry, and came and told their lord all that was done.
Matthew 18:33
Shouldn’t you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?’
Matthew 18:35
So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don’t each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds.”
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Isaiah 59:4
No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity and speak lies. They conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
Isaiah 59:14
Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands far away; for truth has fallen in the street, and uprightness can’t enter.
Isaiah 59:15
Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.
Jeremiah 5:1
“Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its wide places, if you can find a man, if there is anyone who does justly, who seeks truth, then I will pardon her.
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Ezekiel 17:20
I will spread my net on him, and he will be taken in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon, and will enter into judgment with him there for his trespass that he has trespassed against me.
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Psalms 106:3
Blessed are those who keep justice. Blessed is one who does what is right at all times.
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.
Luke 1:75
in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life.
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
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 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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Proverbs 29:13
The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: Yahweh gives sight to the eyes of both.
Proverbs 29:14
The king who fairly judges the poor, his throne shall be established forever.
Isaiah 16:5
A throne will be established in loving kindness. One will sit on it in truth, in the tent of David, judging, seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness.
Daniel 4:27
Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.”
Matthew 18:27
The lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, released him and forgave him the debt.
Matthew 18:32
Then his lord called him in and said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me.
Matthew 18:34
His lord was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors until he should pay all that was due to him.
Luke 19:8
Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much.”
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Jeremiah 15:4
I will cause them to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.
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.
Ezekiel 18:16
hasn’t wronged any, hasn’t taken anything to pledge, hasn’t taken by robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;
Ezekiel 18:19
“Yet you say, ‘Why doesn’t the son bear the iniquity of the father?’ When the son has done that which is lawful and right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them, he will surely live.
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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