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 no interest from him or profit, but fear your God; that your brother may live among you.
• Deut 23:19–20You shall not lend on interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on interest.
• Exod 22:25“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor. You shall not charge him interest.
• Ps 15:5he who doesn’t lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be shaken.
• Ezek 22:12In you have they taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,” says the Lord Yahweh.
• Deut 15:2–3This is the way it shall be done: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not require payment from his neighbor and his brother; because Yahweh’s release has been proclaimed.
• 2 Chr 19:6–7and said to the judges, “Consider what you do, for you don’t judge for man, but for Yahweh; and he is with you in the judgment.
• Deut 24:10–13When you lend your neighbor any kind of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.
• Lev 19:15“‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.
• 2 Chr 28:9–13But a prophet of Yahweh was there, whose name was Oded; and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria, and said to them, “Behold, because Yahweh, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he has delivered them into your hand, and you have slain them in a rage which has reached up to heaven.
• Prov 27:5Better is open rebuke than hidden love.
• 1 Tim 5:20Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.
• 2 Cor 5:16Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.
• Ps 82:1–4A Psalm by Asaph. God presides in the great assembly. He judges among the gods.
• Titus 2:15Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no man despise you.
• Matt 18:17If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.
• Gal 2:11But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.
• Ps 27:8When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, Yahweh.”
• Ps 4:4Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still. Selah.
• Ps 15:1A Psalm by David. Yahweh, who shall dwell in your sanctuary? Who shall live on your holy hill?
• Ezek 45:9Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Let it suffice you, princes of Israel: remove violence and plunder, and execute justice and righteousness; dispossessing my people, says the Lord Yahweh.

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