Ezekiel 18:17

He withholds his hand from harming the poor and takes no interest or usury. He keeps My ordinances and follows My statutes. Such a man will not die for his father’s iniquity. He will surely live.

Cross References (24)

  • Ezekiel 18:8–9 (4)

    He does not engage in usury or take excess interest, but he withholds his hand from iniquity and executes true justice b

  • Jeremiah 16:11–13 (2)

    Then you are to answer them: ‘It is because your fathers have forsaken Me, declares the LORD, and followed other gods, a

  • Ezekiel 20:18 (2)

    In the wilderness I said to their children: ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or def

  • Jeremiah 22:16 (2)

    He took up the cause of the poor and needy, and so it went well with him. Is this not what it means to know Me?” declare

  • Malachi 3:7 (2)

    Yet from the days of your fathers, you have turned away from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I wil

  • Ezekiel 33:13 (2)

    If I tell the righteous man that he will surely live, but he then trusts in his righteousness and commits iniquity, then

  • Jeremiah 16:19 (2)

    O LORD, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress, the nations will come to You from the ends of the

  • Leviticus 18:26 (2)

    But you are to keep My statutes and ordinances, and you must not commit any of these abominations—neither your native-bo

  • Proverbs 29:14 (2)

    A king who judges the poor with fairness—his throne will be established forever.

  • Ezekiel 18:13 (2)

    He engages in usury and takes excess interest. Will this son live? He will not! Since he has committed all these abomina

  • Ezekiel 33:15–16 (2)

    if he restores a pledge, makes restitution for what he has stolen, and walks in the statutes of life without practicing

  • Ezekiel 3:21 (2)

    But if you warn the righteous man not to sin, and he does not sin, he will indeed live because he heeded your warning, a

  • Leviticus 18:30 (2)

    You must keep My charge not to practice any of the abominable customs that were practiced before you, so that you do not

  • Daniel 4:27 (2)

    Therefore, may my advice be pleasing to you, O king. Break away from your sins by doing what is right, and from your ini

  • Proverbs 29:7 (2)

    The righteous consider the cause of the poor, but the wicked have no regard for such concerns.

  • Matthew 18:27–35 (2)

    His master had compassion on him, forgave his debt, and released him.

  • Ezekiel 18:28 (2)

    Because he considered and turned from all the transgressions he had committed, he will surely live; he will not die.

  • Job 29:16 (2)

    I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.

  • Proverbs 14:31 (2)

    Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.

  • Ezekiel 20:30 (2)

    Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: Will you defile yourselves the way your fathers

  • Matthew 23:29–33 (2)

    Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the ri

  • Leviticus 18:4 (2)

    You are to practice My judgments and keep My statutes by walking in them. I am the LORD your God.

  • Ezekiel 18:19–21 (2)

    Yet you may ask, ‘Why shouldn’t the son bear the iniquity of his father?’ Since the son has done what is just and right,

  • Luke 19:8 (1)

    But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord, half of my possessions I give to the poor, and if I have cheat