Quotes about Morality
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
If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity, he will die for this. He will die because of the iniquity he has committed.
— Ezekiel 18:26
But if a wicked man turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will save his life.
— Ezekiel 18:27
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
Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.
— Ezekiel 22:7
In you they have uncovered the nakedness of their fathers; in you they violate women during their menstrual impurity.
— Ezekiel 22:10
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
She offered sexual favors to all the elite of Assyria. She defiled herself with all the idols of those for whom she lusted.
— Ezekiel 23:7
She did not give up the prostitution she began in Egypt, when men slept with her in her youth, caressed her virgin bosom, and poured out their lust upon her.
— Ezekiel 23:8