Ezekiel 18:17
He keeps his hand from the poor and does not take interest or increase, but executes my ordinances, and walks in my statutes. He will not die for his father's iniquity. He will surely live.
Ezekiel 18:8-9
If he does not lend money on interest or take increase, if he keeps his hand from iniquity and executes true justice between man and man,
Leviticus 18:4
I am Jehovah your God! You must obey my teachings.
Leviticus 18:26
Live by my standards, and obey my rules. Neither you nor any foreigner should ever do any of these disgusting things.
Leviticus 18:30
Therefore you must follow my instructions. Do not live by the standards of the people who lived there before you. What they do is disgusting. Never become unclean that way. I am Jehovah your God!'
Job 29:16
I was a father to the needy! I championed the cause of the stranger.
Proverbs 14:31
He who oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker. He who honors his Maker has mercy for the poor.
Proverbs 29:7
The righteous considers the cause of the poor. The wicked do not get to know it.
Proverbs 29:14
The king who faithfully judges the poor will have his throne established forever.
Jeremiah 16:11-13
Tell them: 'It is because your ancestors abandoned me,' says Jehovah. They followed other gods, served them, worshiped them, and abandoned me. They did not obey my law.
Jeremiah 16:19
Jehovah is my strength and my fortress, my refuge in times of trouble. Nations come to you from the most distant parts of the world and say: Our ancestors have inherited lies, worthless and unprofitable gods.
Jeremiah 22:16
He pled the cause of the afflicted and needy. Then it was well. Is that not what it means to know me? Says Jehovah.
Ezekiel 3:21
If you warn righteous people not to sin, and they do not sin, they will certainly live because they listened to the warning and you will save yourself.
Ezekiel 18:13
He lends money for interest and makes excessive profits. Will this person live? He will not live. He has done all these disgusting things. So he must die, and he will be responsible for his own death.
Ezekiel 18:19-21
Yet you say: Why should the son not bear the punishment for the father's iniquity? When the son has practiced justice and righteousness and has observed all my statutes and done them, he shall surely live.
Ezekiel 18:28
He realized what he was doing and turned away from all the rebellious things that he had done. He will certainly live. He will not die.
Ezekiel 20:18
I said to their children in the desert: Do not live by the laws of your ancestors. Do not obey their rules or dishonor yourselves with their disgusting idols.
Ezekiel 20:30
Tell the nation of Israel: 'This is what the Lord Jehovah says: Will you dishonor yourselves the way your ancestors did? Will you chase their detestable idols like a prostitute?
Ezekiel 33:13
I may promise life to someone good, but if he starts thinking that his past goodness is enough and begins to sin, I will not remember any of the good he did. He will die because of his sins.
Ezekiel 33:15-16
and if he returns the security he took for a loan or gives back what he stole, if he stops sinning and follows the laws that give life, he will not die, but he will live.
Daniel 4:27
Let my counsel be acceptable to you O King. Stop your sins by being righteous and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. May there be a lengthening of your prosperity.
Malachi 3:7
Like your fathers before you, you have turned away from my laws and have not obeyed them. Return to me and I will return to you, said Jehovah of Hosts. But you ask, 'how will we return to you?'
Matthew 18:27-35
Being moved with pity, the lord let him go, and made him free of the debt.
Matthew 23:29-33
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You build the tombs for the prophets and decorate the tombs of the righteous.
Luke 19:8
Zacchaeus stood before Jesus and said: Lord, I now give half of all my possessions to the poor. If I have defrauded any one I will give back four times the amount taken.