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Ezekiel 22:7

WEB

7In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. [+] Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

KJV

7In thee have they set light[+] by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.

BSB

7Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.

FBV

7You despise your parents. You exploit the foreigners who live with you, and you mistreat orphans and widows.


Extra References

Deuteronomy 27:16

16‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’


Exodus 22:21-22

21You shall not wrong an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

22You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.


Leviticus 20:9

9“‘For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother. His blood shall be upon himself.


Zechariah 7:10

10Don’t oppress the widow, the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’


Malachi 3:5

5I will come near to you to judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says the LORD of Armies.


Jeremiah 7:6

6if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, and don’t walk after other gods to your own hurt,


Ezekiel 18:12

12has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,


Matthew 15:4-6

4For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’5But you say, ‘Whoever may tell his father or his mother, “Whatever help you might otherwise have gotten from me is a gift devoted to God,” 6he shall not honor his father or mother.’ You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.


Proverbs 30:11

11There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn’t bless their mother.


Deuteronomy 5:16

16Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God commanded you, that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land which the LORD your God gives you.