Cross references

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.

Ezekiel 18:17 BSB
  1. a Hebrew; LXX He withholds his hand from iniquity

Ezekiel 18:17 has 24 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 1 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Ezekiel 18:8–9 (4 votes) and Leviticus 18:4 (2 votes). 18 other verses point back to it. It links with 15 other books, from Exodus 22 to Luke 19.

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Which verses does Ezekiel 18:17 point to?

The 20 strongest of 24, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. He does not engage in usury or take excess interest, but he withholds his hand from iniquity and executes true justice between men. He follows My statutes and faithfully keeps My ordinances. That man is righteous; surely he will live, declares the Lord GOD.

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

  3. But 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.

  4. You must keep My charge not to practice any of the abominable customs that were practiced before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the LORD your God.”

  5. Job 29:162 votes

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

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

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

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

  9. Then 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. And you have done more evil than your fathers. See how each of you follows the stubbornness of his evil heart instead of obeying Me. …

  10. 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 earth, and they will say, “Our fathers inherited nothing but lies, worthless idols of no benefit at all.

  11. He 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.

  12. 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. The soul who sins is the one who will die. A son will not bear the iniquity of his father, and a father will not bear the iniquity of his son. The righteousness of the righteous man will fall upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked man will fall upon him. …

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

  14. In 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.

  15. If I tell the righteous man that he will surely live, but he then trusts in his righteousness and commits iniquity, then none of his righteous works will be remembered; he will die because of the iniquity he has committed.

  16. if 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. None of the sins he has committed will be held against him. He has done what is just and right; he will surely live.

Which verses point to Ezekiel 18:17?

The 10 strongest of 18.