Quotes about Ethics
He does not oppress another, but restores the pledge to the debtor. He does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.
— Ezekiel 18:7
He does not engage in usury or take excess interest, but he withholds his hand from iniquity and executes true justice between men.
— Ezekiel 18:8
He does not oppress another, or retain a pledge, or commit robbery. He gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.
— Ezekiel 18:16
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.
— Ezekiel 18:17
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, carefully observing all My statutes, he will surely live.
— Ezekiel 18:19
Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Hear now, O house of Israel: Is it My way that is unjust? Is it not your ways that are unjust?
— Ezekiel 18:25
Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Are My ways unjust, O house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are unjust?
— Ezekiel 18:29
In you they take bribes to shed blood. You engage in usury, take excess interest, and extort your neighbors. But Me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD.
— Ezekiel 22:12
Now look, I strike My hands together against your unjust gain and against the blood you have shed in your midst.
— Ezekiel 22:13
Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives for dishonest gain.
— Ezekiel 22:27
The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy and have exploited the foreign resident without justice.
— Ezekiel 22:29
If I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you will surely die,’ but you do not speak out to dissuade him from his way, then that wicked man will die in his iniquity, yet I will hold you accountable for his blood.
— Ezekiel 33:8