Nehemiah 5:7

Nehemiah Deals With Strife

⁶ And it is very displeasing to me when I have heard their cry and these words, ⁷ and my heart reigneth over me, and I strive with the freemen, and with the prefects, and say to them, 'Usury one upon another ye are exacting;' and I set against them a great assembly, ⁸ and say to them, 'We have acquired our brethren the Jews, those sold to the nations, according to the ability that is in us, and ye also sell your brethren, and they have been sold to us!' and they are silent, and have not found a word.

Great Assembly

Exodus 22:25

'If thou dost lend My poor people with thee money, thou art not to him as a usurer; thou dost not lay on him usury;

Leviticus 25:36

thou takest no usury from him, or increase; and thou hast been afraid of thy God; and thy brother hath lived with thee;

Deuteronomy 23:19-20

'Thou dost not lend in usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of food, usury of anything which is lent on usury.

Deuteronomy 24:10-13

'When thou liftest up on thy brother a debt of anything, thou dost not go in unto his house to obtain his pledge;

Psalm 15:5

His silver he hath not given in usury, And a bribe against the innocent Hath not taken; Whoso is doing these is not moved to the age!

Ezekiel 22:12

A bribe they have taken in thee to shed blood, Usury and increase thou hast taken, And cuttest off thy neighbour by oppression, And Me thou hast forgotten, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!

Leviticus 19:15

'Ye do not do perversity in judgment; thou dost not lift up the face of the poor, nor honour the face of the great; in righteousness thou dost judge thy fellow.

Deuteronomy 15:2-3

and this is the matter of the release: Every owner of a loan is to release his hand which he doth lift up against his neighbour, he doth not exact of his neighbour and of his brother, but hath proclaimed a release to Jehovah;

2 Chronicles 19:6-7

and saith unto the judges, 'See what ye are doing -- for not for man do ye judge, but for Jehovah, who is with you in the matter of judgment;

2 Chronicles 28:9-13

And there hath been there a prophet of Jehovah (Oded is his name), and he goeth out before the host that hath come in to Samaria, and saith to them, 'Lo, in the fury of Jehovah God of your fathers against Judah, He hath given them into your hand, and ye slay among them in rage -- unto the heavens it hath come;

Psalm 4:4

Tremble ye, and do not sin;' Say ye thus in your heart on your bed, And be ye silent. Selah.

Psalm 15:1

A Psalm of David. Jehovah, who doth sojourn in Thy tent? Who doth dwell in Thy holy hill?

Psalm 27:8

To Thee said my heart 'They sought my face, Thy face, O Jehovah, I seek.'

Psalm 82:1-4

-- A Psalm of Asaph. God hath stood in the company of God, In the midst God doth judge.

Proverbs 27:5

Better is open reproof than hidden love.

Ezekiel 45:9

Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Enough to you -- princes of Israel; violence and spoil turn aside, and judgment and righteousness do; lift up your exactions from off My people -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

Matthew 18:17

And if he may not hear them, say it to the assembly, and if also the assembly he may not hear, let him be to thee as the heathen man and the tax-gatherer.

2 Corinthians 5:16

So that we henceforth have known no one according to the flesh, and even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him no more;

Galatians 2:11

And when Peter came to Antioch, to the face I stood up against him, because he was blameworthy,

1 Timothy 5:20

Those sinning, reprove before all, that the others also may have fear;

Titus 2:15

these things be speaking, and exhorting, and convicting, with all charge; let no one despise thee!