and after serious thought I rebuked the nobles and officials, saying, “You are exacting usury from your own brothers!” So I called a large assembly against them
Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or any other type of loan.
Do not take any interest or profit from him, but fear your God, that your countryman may live among you.
If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charg
Then he said to the judges, “Consider carefully what you do, for you are not judging for man, but for the LORD, who is w
In you they take bribes to shed blood. You engage in usury, take excess interest, and extort your neighbors. But Me you
This is the manner of remission: Every creditor shall cancel what he has loaned to his neighbor. He is not to collect an
When you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security.
who lends his money without interest and refuses a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be sh
You must not pervert justice; you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich; you are to judge your
Better an open rebuke than love that is concealed.
If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, regard him as yo
When Cephas came to Antioch, however, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned.
Be angry, yet do not sin; on your bed, search your heart and be still. Selah
Speak these things as you encourage and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise you.
A Psalm of Asaph. God presides in the divine assembly; He renders judgment among the gods:
My heart said, “Seek His face.” Your face, O LORD, I will seek.
But a prophet of the LORD named Oded was there, and he went out to meet the army that returned to Samaria. “Look,” he sa
So from now on we regard no one according to the flesh. Although we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer
But those who persist in sin should be rebuked in front of everyone, so that the others will stand in fear of sin.
For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Enough, O princes of Israel! Cease your violence and oppression, and do what is jus
A Psalm of David. O LORD, who may abide in Your tent? Who may dwell on Your holy mountain?