Ezekiel 18:17
he keeps his hand from [oppressing] the poor, does not receive interest or increase [from the needy], but executes My ordinances and walks in My statutes; he shall not die for the sin (guilt) of his father; he shall certainly live.
Ezekiel 18:8-9
if he
Leviticus 18:4
You are to follow My judgments (precepts, ordinances) and keep My statutes and live by them. I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 18:26
But as for you, you are to keep My statutes and My judgments (precepts) and shall not commit any of these repulsive acts, neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives temporarily among you
Leviticus 18:30
So keep My command: do not practice any of the repulsive customs which have been practiced before you, so as not to defile yourselves by them; I am the Lord your God.’”
Job 29:16
“I was a father to the needy;
I investigated the case I did not know [and assured justice].
Proverbs 14:31
He who oppresses the poor taunts and insults his Maker,
But he who is kind and merciful and gracious to the needy honors Him.
Proverbs 29:7
The righteous man cares for the rights of the poor,
But the wicked man has no interest in such knowledge.
Proverbs 29:14
If a king faithfully and truthfully judges the poor,
His throne shall be established forever.
Jeremiah 16:11-13
Then you are to say to them, ‘It is because your fathers have abandoned (rejected) Me,’ says the Lord, ‘and have walked after other gods and have served them and bowed down to the handmade idols and have abandoned (rejected) Me and have not kept My law,
Jeremiah 16:19
[Then said Jeremiah] “O Lord, my Strength and my Stronghold,
And my Refuge in the day of distress and need,
The nations will come to You
From the ends of the earth and say,
‘Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies and illusion,
[Worthless] things in which there is no benefit!’
Jeremiah 22:16
“He defended the cause of the afflicted and needy;
Then all was well.
Is that not what it means to know Me?”
Says the Lord.
Ezekiel 3:21
However, if you have warned the righteous man not to sin and he does not sin, he will surely live because he took warning; also you have
Ezekiel 18:13
and charges interest and takes [a percentage of] increase on what he has loaned; will he then live? He will not live! He has done all these disgusting things, he shall surely be put to death; his blood will be on his own head.
Ezekiel 18:19-21
“Yet do you say, ‘Why should the son not bear the punishment for the father’s sin?’ When the son has practiced justice and righteousness and has kept all My statutes and has done them, he shall certainly live.
Ezekiel 18:28
Because he considered and turned away from all the transgressions which he had committed, he shall certainly live; he shall not die.
Ezekiel 20:18
“But I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers nor observe their ordinances nor defile yourselves with their idols.
Ezekiel 20:30
Therefore, say to the house of Israel, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “Will you [exiles] defile yourselves in the same manner as your fathers? And will you prostitute yourselves before their loathsome and heinous things?
Ezekiel 33:13
When I say to the righteous that he will most certainly live, and he trusts in his [previous acts of] righteousness [to save him] and commits injustice, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered; but he will die for his injustice that he committed.
Ezekiel 33:15-16
if a wicked man returns [what he took as] a pledge, pays back what he had taken by robbery, walks in the statutes which ensure life, without committing injustice, he will certainly live; he will not die.
Daniel 4:27
Therefore, O king, let my advice to you be [considered and found] acceptable; break away now from your sins and exhibit your repentance by doing what is right, and from your wickedness by showing mercy to the poor, so that [if you repent] there may possibly be a continuance of your prosperity and tranquility and a healing of your error.’
Malachi 3:7
“Yet from the days of your fathers you have turned away from My statutes and ordinances and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the Lord of hosts. “But you say, ‘How shall we return?’
Matthew 18:27-35
Matthew 23:29-33
Luke 19:8
Zaccheus stopped and said to the Lord, “See, Lord, I am [now] giving half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anyone out of anything, I will give back four times as much.”
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Hath taken
That hath not
He shall not
He shall surely
General references
Bible References
Hath taken
“I was a father to the needy;
I investigated the case I did not know [and assured justice].
He who oppresses the poor taunts and insults his Maker,
But he who is kind and merciful and gracious to the needy honors Him.
The righteous man cares for the rights of the poor,
But the wicked man has no interest in such knowledge.
“He defended the cause of the afflicted and needy;
Then all was well.
Is that not what it means to know Me?”
Says the Lord.