Nehemiah 5:7

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

After thinking it over, I contended with the nobles and the officials; I said to them, “You are all taking interest from your own people.” And I called a great assembly to deal with them

Cross References

Psalm 109:11

May the creditor seize all that he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his toil.

Psalm 15:1

O Lord, who may abide in your tent? Who may dwell on your holy hill?

Psalm 15:5

who do not lend money at interest and do not take a bribe against the innocent. Those who do these things shall never be moved.

Psalm 27:8

“Come,” my heart says, “seek his face!” Your face, Lord, do I seek.

Psalm 4:4

When you are disturbed, do not sin; ponder it on your beds, and be silent. Selah

Psalm 94:16

Who rises up for me against the wicked? Who stands up for me against evildoers?

Exodus 22:24

my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children orphans.

Exodus 22:25

“If you lend money to my people, to the poor among you, you shall not deal with them as a creditor; you shall not exact interest from them.

Proverbs 27:5

Better is open rebuke than hidden love.

Proverbs 28:4

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law struggle against them.

Ezekiel 22:12

In you, they take bribes to shed blood; you take both advance interest and accrued interest and make gain of your neighbors by extortion, and you have forgotten me, says the Lord God.

Ezekiel 45:9

“Thus says the Lord God: Enough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and do what is just and right. Cease your evictions of my people, says the Lord God.

Leviticus 19:15

“You shall not render an unjust judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great: with justice you shall judge your neighbor.

Leviticus 25:36

Do not take interest in advance or otherwise make a profit from them, but fear your God; let them live with you.

Matthew 18:17

If that person refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church, and if the offender refuses to listen even to the church, let such a one be to you as a gentile and a tax collector.

2 Corinthians 5:16

From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a human point of view; even though we once knew Christ from a human point of view, we no longer know him in that way.

Galatians 2:11

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

1 Timothy 5:20

As for those who persist in sin, rebuke them in the presence of all, so that the rest also may stand in fear.

Titus 2:15

Declare these things; exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one look down on you.