Nehemiah 5:7

After mastering his emotions, Nehemiah confronts the nobles for charging interest on their brothers and calls a great assembly. He deals with sin openly and deliberately.

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• Lev 25:36Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.
• Deut 23:19–20Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:
• Exod 22:25If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.
• Ps 15:5He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.
• Ezek 22:12In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.
• Deut 15:2–3And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD’s release.
• 2 Chr 19:6–7And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for the LORD, who is with you in the judgment.
• Deut 24:10–13When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
• Lev 19:15Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
• 2 Chr 28:9–13But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded: and he went out before the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them, Behold, because the LORD God of your fathers was wroth with Judah, he hath delivered them into your hand, and ye have slain them in a rage that reacheth up unto heaven.
• Prov 27:5Open rebuke is better than secret love.
• 1 Tim 5:20Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.
• 2 Cor 5:16Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.
• Ps 82:1–4God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.
• Titus 2:15These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.
• Matt 18:17And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.
• Gal 2:11But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.
• Ps 27:8When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.
• Ps 4:4Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
• Ps 15:1Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?
• Ezek 45:9Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord GOD.

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