Quotes about Morality
then as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, they could not deliver their own sons or daughters. Their righteousness could deliver only themselves.
— Ezekiel 14:20
Now suppose a man is righteous and does what is just and right:
— Ezekiel 18:5
He does not eat at the mountain or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her period.
— Ezekiel 18:6
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
Now suppose that man has a violent son, who sheds blood or does any of these things,
— Ezekiel 18:10
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.
— Ezekiel 18:13
Now suppose this son has a son who sees all the sins his father has committed, considers them, and does not do likewise:
— Ezekiel 18:14
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
As for his father, he will die for his own iniquity, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother, and did what was wrong among his people.
— Ezekiel 18:18
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