Nehemiah 5:7

Nehemiah Deals With Strife

⁶ I was very angry when I heard their outcry and these complaints. ⁷ I considered these things carefully and then registered a complaint with the wealthy and the officials. I said to them, "Each one of you is seizing the collateral from your own countrymen!" Because of them I called for a great public assembly. ⁸ I said to them, "To the extent possible we have bought back our fellow Jews who had been sold to the Gentiles. But now you yourselves want to sell your own countrymen, so that we can then buy them back!" They were utterly silent, and could find nothing to say.

Great Assembly

Exodus 22:25

"If you lend money to any of my people who are needy among you, do not be like a moneylender to him; do not charge him interest.

Leviticus 25:36

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

Deuteronomy 23:19-20

You must not charge interest on a loan to your fellow Israelite, whether on money, food, or anything else that has been loaned with interest.

Deuteronomy 24:10-13

When you make any kind of loan to your neighbor, you may not go into his house to claim what he is offering as security.

Psalm 15:5

He does not charge interest when he lends his money. He does not take bribes to testify against the innocent. The one who lives like this will never be upended.

Ezekiel 22:12

They take bribes within you to shed blood. You engage in usury and charge interest; you extort money from your neighbors. You have forgotten me, declares the sovereign Lord.

Leviticus 19:15

"'You must not deal unjustly in judgment: you must neither show partiality to the poor nor honor the rich. You must judge your fellow citizen fairly.

Deuteronomy 15:2-3

This is the nature of the cancellation: Every creditor must remit what he has loaned to another person; he must not force payment from his fellow Israelite, for it is to be recognized as "the Lord's cancellation of debts."

2 Chronicles 19:6-7

He told the judges, "Be careful what you do, for you are not judging for men, but for the Lord, who will be with you when you make judicial decisions.

2 Chronicles 28:9-13

Oded, a prophet of the Lord, was there. He went to meet the army as they arrived in Samaria and said to them: "Look, because the Lord God of your ancestors was angry with Judah he handed them over to you. You have killed them so mercilessly that God has taken notice.

Psalm 4:4

Tremble with fear and do not sin! Meditate as you lie in bed, and repent of your ways! (Selah)

Psalm 15:1

A psalm of David. Lord, who may be a guest in your home? Who may live on your holy hill?

Psalm 27:8

My heart tells me to pray to you, and I do pray to you, O Lord.

Psalm 82:1-4

A psalm of Asaph. God stands in the assembly of El; in the midst of the gods he renders judgment.

Proverbs 27:5

Better is open rebuke than hidden love.

Ezekiel 45:9

"'This is what the sovereign Lord says: Enough, you princes of Israel! Put away violence and destruction, and do what is just and right. Put an end to your evictions of my people, declares the sovereign Lord.

Matthew 18:17

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. If he refuses to listen to the church, treat him like a Gentile or a tax collector.

2 Corinthians 5:16

So then from now on we acknowledge no one from an outward human point of view. Even though we have known Christ from such a human point of view, now we do not know him in that way any longer.

Galatians 2:11

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he had clearly done wrong.

1 Timothy 5:20

Those guilty of sin must be rebuked before all, as a warning to the rest.

Titus 2:15

So communicate these things with the sort of exhortation or rebuke that carries full authority. Don't let anyone look down on you.