Nehemiah 5:7

Nehemiah Deals With Strife

⁶ I became extremely angry when I heard their outcry and these complaints. ⁷ After seriously considering the matter, I accused the nobles and officials, saying to them, “Each of you is charging his countrymen interest.” So I called a large assembly against them ⁸ and said, “We have done our best to buy back our Jewish countrymen who were sold to foreigners, but now you sell your own countrymen, and we have to buy them back.” They remained silent and could not say a word.

Great Assembly

Exodus 22:25

“If you lend money to My people, to the poor person among you, you must not be like a moneylender to him; you must not charge him interest.

Leviticus 25:36

Do not profit or take interest from him, but fear your God and let your brother live among you.

Deuteronomy 23:19-20

“Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or anything that can earn interest.

Deuteronomy 24:10-13

“When you make a loan of any kind to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect what he offers as security.

Psalm 15:5

who does not lend his money at interest
or take a bribe against the innocent—
the one who does these things will never be moved.

Ezekiel 22:12

People who live in you accept bribes in order to shed blood. You take interest and profit on a loan and brutally extort your neighbors. You have forgotten Me.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.

Leviticus 19:15

“You must not act unjustly when deciding a case. Do not be partial to the poor or give preference to the rich; judge your neighbor fairly.

Deuteronomy 15:2-3

This is how to cancel debt: Every creditor is to cancel what he has lent his neighbor. He is not to collect anything from his neighbor or brother, because the Lord’s release of debts has been proclaimed.

2 Chronicles 19:6-7

Then he said to the judges, “Consider what you are doing, for you do not judge for man, but for the Lord, who is with you in the matter of judgment.

2 Chronicles 28:9-13

A prophet of the Lord named Oded was there. He went out to meet the army that came to Samaria and said to them, “Look, the Lord God of your ancestors handed them over to you because of His wrath against Judah, but you slaughtered them in a rage that has reached heaven.

Psalm 4:4

Be angry and do not sin;
on your bed, reflect in your heart and be still.Selah

Psalm 15:1

A Davidic psalm.Lord, who can dwell in Your tent?
Who can live on Your holy mountain?

Psalm 27:8

My heart says this about You,
“You are to seek My face.”
Lord, I will seek Your face.

Psalm 82:1-4

A psalm of Asaph.God has taken His place in the divine assembly;
He judges among the gods:

Proverbs 27:5

Better an open reprimand
than concealed love.

Ezekiel 45:9

“This is what the Lord God says: You have gone too far, princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression and do what is just and right. Put an end to your evictions of My people.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.

Matthew 18:17

If he pays no attention to them, tell the church. But if he doesn’t pay attention even to the church, let him be like an unbeliever and a tax collector to you.

2 Corinthians 5:16

From now on, then, we do not know anyone in a purely human way. Even if we have known Christ in a purely human way, yet now we no longer know Him in this way.

Galatians 2:11

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face because he stood condemned.

1 Timothy 5:20

Publicly rebuke those who sin, so that the rest will also be afraid.

Titus 2:15

Say these things, and encourage and rebuke with all authority. Let no one disregard you.