Nehemiah 5:10
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“I, as well as my brothers and my servants, have been lending the people money and grain. Please, let us stop this usury.”
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“I, as well as my brothers and my servants, have been lending the people money and grain. Please, let us stop this usury.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And I likewise, my brethren and my servants, do lend them money and grain. I pray you, let us leave off this usury.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And also, I, my brethren, and my servants, are exacting of them silver and corn; let us leave off, I pray you, this usury.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Nehemiah 5:10 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 22:25If 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 charge him interest.
- Deuteronomy 15:2This is the manner of remission: Every creditor shall cancel what he has loaned to his neighbor. He is not to collect anything from his neighbor or brother, because the LORD’s time of release has been proclaimed.
- Nehemiah 5:7and 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
- Nehemiah 10:32We also place ourselves under the obligation to contribute a third of a shekel yearly for the service of the house of our God:
- Psalms 15:5who lends his money without interest and refuses a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.
- Ezekiel 18:7He does not oppress another, but restores the pledge to the debtor. He does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.
- Ezekiel 18:8He does not engage in usury or take excess interest, but he withholds his hand from iniquity and executes true justice between men.
- Ezekiel 18:13He engages in usury and takes excess interest. Will this son live? He will not! Since he has committed all these abominations, he will surely die; his blood will be on his own head.
- Micah 2:1Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.
- Luke 3:13“Collect no more than you are authorized,” he answered.
- 1 Corinthians 9:12If others have this right to your support, shouldn’t we have it all the more? But we did not exercise this right. Instead, we put up with anything rather than hinder the gospel of Christ.
- 2 Corinthians 5:11Therefore, since we know what it means to fear the Lord, we try to persuade men. What we are is clear to God, and I hope it is clear to your conscience as well.
- 2 Corinthians 5:20Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ: Be reconciled to God.
- 2 Corinthians 6:1As God’s fellow workers, then, we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.
- Philemon 1:8So although in Christ I am bold enough to order you to do what is proper,
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