Skip to content
mannafest.faith
Read

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.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

that hath withdrawn his hand from the poor, that hath not received interest nor increase, hath executed mine ordinances, hath walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.

KJV

That hath taken off his hand from the poor, that hath not received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.

⋯

Commentary

3 voices

Voices on this verse

loading…

Original language & word study

18 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
מֵעָנִ֞יme.'a.Nifrom [the] poorH6041 →
הֵשִׁ֣יבhe.Shivhe has turned awayH7725 →
יָד֗וֹya.Dohand hisH3027 →
נֶ֤שֶׁךְNe.shekhinterestH5392 →
וְתַרְבִּית֙ve.tar.Bitand interestH8636 →
לֹ֣אlo'notH3808 →
לָקָ֔חla.Kachhe has takenH3947 →
מִשְׁפָּטַ֣יmish.pa.Taijudgments myH4941 →
עָשָׂ֔ה'a.Sahhe has doneH6213 →
בְּחֻקּוֹתַ֖יbe.chu.ko.Taiin statutes myH2708 →
הָלָ֑ךְha.Lakhhe has walkedH1980 →
ה֗וּאHu'heH1931 →
לֹ֥אlo'notH3808 →
יָמ֛וּתya.Muthe will dieH4191 →
בַּעֲוֹ֥ןba.'a.Vonfor [the] iniquity ofH5771 →
אָבִ֖יו'a.Vivfather hisH1 →
חָיֹ֥הcha.Yohcertainly <live>H2421 →
יִחְיֶֽה׃yich.Yehhe will liveH2421 →

The walk

Related verses

18 strongest cross-references

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Proverbs 28:8He who increases his wealth by interest and usury lays it up for one who is kind to the poor.Ezekiel 18:8–9He does not engage in usury or take excess interest, but he withholds his hand from iniquity and executes true justice between men.Psalms 15:5who lends his money without interest and refuses a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.Leviticus 25:36Do not take any interest or profit from him, but fear your God, that your countryman may live among you.Ezekiel 18:8He does not engage in usury or take excess interest, but he withholds his hand from iniquity and executes true justice between men.Ezekiel 18:9He follows My statutes and faithfully keeps My ordinances. That man is righteous; surely he will live, declares the Lord GOD.Exodus 22:25If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest.Jeremiah 16:11–13Then you are to answer them: ‘It is because your fathers have forsaken Me, declares the LORD, and followed other gods, and served and worshiped them. They abandoned Me and did not keep My instruction.Job 29:16I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.Proverbs 14:31Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.Ezekiel 20:30Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: Will you defile yourselves the way your fathers did, prostituting yourselves with their abominations?Malachi 3:7Yet from the days of your fathers, you have turned away from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Hosts. “But you ask, ‘How can we return?’Ezekiel 18:13He engages in usury and takes excess interest. Will this son live? He will not! Since he has committed all these abominations, he will surely die; his blood will be on his own head.Matthew 23:29–33Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous.Jeremiah 16:19O LORD, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress, the nations will come to You from the ends of the earth, and they will say, “Our fathers inherited nothing but lies, worthless idols of no benefit at all.Ezekiel 20:18In the wilderness I said to their children: ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.Leviticus 18:26But you are to keep My statutes and ordinances, and you must not commit any of these abominations—neither your native-born nor the foreigner who lives among you.Ezekiel 33:15–16if he restores a pledge, makes restitution for what he has stolen, and walks in the statutes of life without practicing iniquity—then he will surely live; he will not die.

About Ezekiel

The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Ezekiel: the study guide →Read chapter 18 →The featured study →
Continue: Ezekiel 18 →