Ezekiel 33:15
if the wicked man restores the pledge, gives again that which he had taken by robbery, walks in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity, he shall surely live; he shall not die.
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Exodus 21:34the owner of the pit shall make it good; he shall give money to the owner of it, and the dead [beast] shall be his.
Exodus 22:26If thou at all take thy neighbor's garment to pledge, thou shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,
Leviticus 18:5Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am LORD.
Deuteronomy 24:6No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge, for he takes life to pledge.
Deuteronomy 24:17Thou shall not distort the justice [due] to the sojourner, [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow's raiment to pledge,
Job 24:3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless. They take the widow's ox for a pledge.
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 33:11-21
The Cavils of the People Answered. ( b. c. 587.) 10 Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel; Thus ye speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live? 11 Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord God , I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel? 12 Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy… Read the whole commentary →