Nehemiah 5:7

Nehemiah Deals With Strife

⁶ Then I was very angry when I had heard their outcry and these words. ⁷ I consulted with myself and contended with the nobles and the rulers and said to them, “You are exacting usury, each from his brother!” Therefore, I held a great assembly against them. ⁸ I said to them, “We according to our ability have redeemed our Jewish brothers who were sold to the nations; now would you even sell your brothers that they may be sold to us?” Then they were silent and could not find a word to say.

Great Assembly

Exodus 22:25

“If you lend money to My people, to the poor among you, you are not to act as a creditor to him; you shall not charge him interest.

Leviticus 25:36

Do not take usurious interest from him, but revere your God, that your countryman may live with you.

Deuteronomy 23:19-20

“You shall not charge interest to your countrymen: interest on money, food, or anything that may be loaned at interest.

Deuteronomy 24:10-13

“When you make your neighbor a loan of any sort, you shall not enter his house to take his pledge.

Psalm 15:5

He does not put out his money at interest,
Nor does he take a bribe against the innocent.
He who does these things will never be shaken.

Ezekiel 22:12

In you they have taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and profits, and you have injured your neighbors for gain by oppression, and you have forgotten Me,” declares the Lord God.

Leviticus 19:15

‘You shall do no injustice in judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor nor defer to the great, but you are to judge your neighbor fairly.

Deuteronomy 15:2-3

This is the manner of remission: every creditor shall release what he has loaned to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother, because the Lord’s remission has been proclaimed.

2 Chronicles 19:6-7

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 when you render judgment.

2 Chronicles 28:9-13

But a prophet of the Lord was there, whose name was Oded; and he went out to meet the army which came to Samaria and said to them, “Behold, because the Lord, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, He has delivered them into your hand, and you have slain them in a rage which has even reached heaven.

Psalm 4:4

Tremble, and do not sin;
Meditate in your heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.

Psalm 15:1

A Psalm of David.
O Lord, who may abide in Your tent?
Who may dwell on Your holy hill?

Psalm 27:8

When You said, “Seek My face,” my heart said to You,
“Your face, O Lord, I shall seek.”

Psalm 82:1-4

A Psalm of Asaph.
God takes His stand in His own congregation;
He judges in the midst of the rulers.

Proverbs 27:5

Better is open rebuke
Than love that is concealed.

Ezekiel 45:9

‘Thus says the Lord God, “Enough, you princes of Israel; put away violence and destruction, and practice justice and righteousness. Stop your expropriations from My people,” declares the Lord God.

Matthew 18:17

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

2 Corinthians 5:16

Therefore from now on we recognize no one according to the flesh; even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him in this way no longer.

Galatians 2:11

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

1 Timothy 5:20

Those who continue in sin, rebuke in the presence of all, so that the rest also will be fearful of sinning.

Titus 2:15

These things speak and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one disregard you.