Nehemiah 5:7

Nehemiah Deals With Strife

⁶ And on hearing their outcry and what they said I was very angry. ⁷ And after turning it over in my mind, I made a protest to the chiefs and the rulers, and said to them, Every one of you is taking interest from his countryman. And I got together a great meeting of protest. ⁸ And I said to them, We have given whatever we were able to give, to make our brothers the Jews free, who were servants and prisoners of the nations: and would you now give up your brothers for a price, and are they to become our property? Then they said nothing, answering not a word.

Great Assembly

Exodus 22:25

If you let any of the poor among my people have the use of your money, do not be a hard creditor to him, and do not take interest.

Leviticus 25:36

Take no interest from him, in money or in goods, but have the fear of your God before you, and let your brother make a living among you.

Deuteronomy 23:19-20

Do not take interest from an Israelite on anything, money or food or any other goods, which you let him have

Deuteronomy 24:10-13

If you let your brother have the use of anything which is yours, do not go into his house and take anything of his as a sign of his debt;

Ezekiel 22:12

In you they have taken rewards as the price of blood; you have taken interest and great profits, and you have taken away your neighbours' goods by force, and have not kept me in mind, says the Lord.

Leviticus 19:15

Do no wrong in your judging: do not give thought to the position of the poor, or honour to the position of the great; but be a judge to your neighbour in righteousness.

Deuteronomy 15:2-3

This is how it is to be done: every creditor is to give up his right to whatever he has let his neighbour have; he is not to make his neighbour, his countryman, give it back; because a general forgiveness has been ordered by the Lord.

2 Chronicles 19:6-7

And said to the judges, Take care what you do, for you are judging not for man but for the Lord, and he is with you in the decisions you give.

2 Chronicles 28:9-13

But a prophet of the Lord was there, named Oded; and he went out in front of the army which was coming into Samaria and said to them, Truly, because the Lord, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he gave them up into your hands, and you have put them to death in an outburst of wrath stretching up to heaven.

Psalm 4:4

Let there be fear in your hearts, and do no sin; have bitter feelings on your bed, but make no sound. (Selah.)

Psalm 15:1

Lord, who may have a resting-place in your tent, a living-place on your holy hill?

Psalm 27:8

When you said, Make search for my face, my heart said to you, For your face will I make my search.

Psalm 82:1-4

God is in the meeting-place of God; he is judging among the gods.

Proverbs 27:5

Better is open protest than love kept secret.

Ezekiel 45:9

This is what the Lord has said: Let this be enough for you, O rulers of Israel: let there be an end of violent behaviour and wasting; do what is right, judging uprightly; let there be no more driving out of my people, says the Lord.

Matthew 18:17

And if he will not give ear to them, let it come to the hearing of the church: and if he will not give ear to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax-farmer.

2 Corinthians 5:16

For this reason, from this time forward we have knowledge of no man after the flesh: even if we have had knowledge of Christ after the flesh, we have no longer any such knowledge.

Galatians 2:11

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I made a protest against him to his face, because he was clearly in the wrong.

1 Timothy 5:20

Say sharp words to sinners when all are present, so that the rest may be in fear.

Titus 2:15

On all these points give teaching and help, and make clear what is right with all authority. Let all men give you honour.