Leviticus 25:17
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Do not take advantage of each other, but fear your God; for I am the LORD your God.”
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“Do not take advantage of each other, but fear your God; for I am the LORD your God.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the Lord your God.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And ye shall not wrong one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am Jehovah your God.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and ye do not oppress one another, and thou hast been afraid of thy God; for I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah your God.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Leviticus 25:17 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 20:11Abraham replied, “I thought to myself, ‘Surely there is no fear of God in this place. They will kill me on account of my wife.’
- Genesis 22:12“Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him,” said the angel, “for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from me.”
- Genesis 39:9No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?”
- Genesis 42:18and on the third day he said to them, “I fear God. So do this and you will live:
- Exodus 20:20“Do not be afraid,” Moses replied. “For God has come to test you, so that the fear of Him may be before you, to keep you from sinning.”
- Leviticus 19:13You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.
- Leviticus 19:14You must not curse the deaf or place a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God. I am the LORD.
- Leviticus 19:32You are to rise in the presence of the elderly, honor the aged, and fear your God. I am the LORD.
- Leviticus 25:14If you make a sale to your neighbor or a purchase from him, you must not take advantage of each other.
- Leviticus 25:36Do not take any interest or profit from him, but fear your God, that your countryman may live among you.
- Leviticus 25:43You are not to rule over them harshly, but you shall fear your God.
- Deuteronomy 25:18how they met you on your journey when you were tired and weary, and they attacked all your stragglers; they had no fear of God.
- 1 Samuel 12:24Above all, fear the LORD and serve Him faithfully with all your heart; consider what great things He has done for you.
- 2 Chronicles 19:7And now, may the fear of the LORD be upon you. Be careful what you do, for with the LORD our God there is no injustice or partiality or bribery.”
- Nehemiah 5:9So I continued, “What you are doing is not right. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God to avoid the reproach of our foreign enemies?
- Nehemiah 5:15The governors before me had heavily burdened the people, taking from them bread and wine plus forty shekels of silver. Their servants also oppressed the people, but I did not do this because of my fear of God.
- Psalms 19:9The fear of the LORD is pure, enduring forever; the judgments of the LORD are true, being altogether righteous.
- Proverbs 1:7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
- Proverbs 16:6By loving devotion and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the LORD one turns aside from evil.
- Proverbs 22:22Do not rob a poor man because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate,
- Isaiah 3:14The LORD brings this charge against the elders and leaders of His people: “You have devoured the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.
- Jeremiah 7:5For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another,
- Jeremiah 22:16He took up the cause of the poor and needy, and so it went well with him. Is this not what it means to know Me?” declares the LORD.
- Malachi 3:5“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
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