Nehemiah 5:7

New American Bible - revised edition

After some deliberation, I called the nobles and magistrates to account, saying to them, “You are exacting interest from your own kindred!” I then rebuked them severely,

Cross References

Psalm 109:11

May the usurer snare all he owns, strangers plunder all he earns.

Psalm 15:1

A psalm of David. Lord, who may abide in your tent? Who may dwell on your holy mountain?

Psalm 15:5

lends no money at interest, accepts no bribe against the innocent. Whoever acts like this shall never be shaken.

Psalm 27:8

“Come,” says my heart, “seek his face”; your face, Lord, do I seek!

Psalm 4:4

Know that the Lord works wonders for his faithful one; the Lord hears when I call out to him.

Psalm 94:16

Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against evildoers?

Exodus 22:24

If you lend money to my people, the poor among you, you must not be like a money lender; you must not demand interest from them.

Exodus 22:25

If you take your neighbor’s cloak as a pledge, you shall return it to him before sunset;

Proverbs 27:5

Better is an open rebuke than a love that remains hidden.

Proverbs 28:4

Those who abandon instruction praise the wicked, but those who keep instruction oppose them.

Ezekiel 22:12

There are those in you who take bribes to shed blood. You exact interest and usury; you extort profit from your neighbor by violence. But me you have forgotten—oracle of the Lord God.

Ezekiel 45:9

Thus says the Lord God: Enough, you princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and do what is just and right! Stop evicting my people!—oracle of the Lord God. Weights and Measures.

Leviticus 19:15

You shall not act dishonestly in rendering judgment. Show neither partiality to the weak nor deference to the mighty, but judge your neighbor justly.

Leviticus 25:36

Do not exact interest in advance or accrued interest, but out of fear of God let your kindred live with you.

Matthew 18:17

If he refuses to listen to them, tell the church. If he refuses to listen even to the church, then treat him as you would a Gentile or a tax collector.

2 Corinthians 5:16

Consequently, from now on we regard no one according to the flesh; even if we once knew Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him so no longer.

Galatians 2:11

And when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face because he clearly was wrong.

1 Timothy 5:20

Reprimand publicly those who do sin, so that the rest also will be afraid.

Titus 2:15

Say these things. Exhort and correct with all authority. Let no one look down on you.