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Standards of Righteous Behavior

“If a person is righteous, and practices what’s lawful and right, if he doesn’t eat at mountain shrines, and doesn’t look to the idols that have been erected in Israel’s house, if he doesn’t defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her time of menstrual separation, if he doesn’t oppress anyone, but instead returns the debtor’s security for his debt, if he doesn’t rob anyone, but instead shares his food with the hungry and gives clothes to those who are naked, if he doesn’t lend with usury or exact interest, but instead refuses to participate in[a] what is unjust, if he administers true justice between people,[b] if he lives his life[c] consistent with my statutes and keeps my ordinances by practicing what’s true, then he’s righteous and will certainly live,” declares the Lord God.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 18:8 Lit. instead withdraws his hand from
  2. Ezekiel 18:8 Lit. between man and man
  3. Ezekiel 18:9 Lit. he walks

And if a man is righteous and does justice and righteousness, and on the mountains he does not eat and he does not lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, and the wife of his neighbor he does not defile and he does not approach a woman of[a] menstruation, and he oppresses no one[b] and he returns a pledge for his loan and he commits no robbery[c] and he gives[d] his bread to the hungry and he covers a naked person with a garment, and he does not charge interest[e] and he takes no usury, and he holds back[f] his hand from injustice and he executes a judgment of fairness between persons,[g] and in my statutes he goes about and my regulations he keeps,[h] performing faithfully[i]then he is righteous, and certainly he will live,” declares[j] the Lord Yahweh.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 18:6 Or “in”
  2. Ezekiel 18:7 Literally “a person not”
  3. Ezekiel 18:7 Literally “robbed things not he seized”
  4. Ezekiel 18:7 Or “shares”
  5. Ezekiel 18:8 Literally “with the interest not he gives”
  6. Ezekiel 18:8 Or “brings back”
  7. Ezekiel 18:8 Literally “man and man”
  8. Ezekiel 18:9 Or “watches”
  9. Ezekiel 18:9 Literally “to do with with faithfulness”
  10. Ezekiel 18:9 Literally “declaration of”