Nehemiah 5:10

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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KJV

I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.

ASV

And I likewise, my brethren and my servants, do lend them money and grain. I pray you, let us leave off this usury.

YLT

And also, I, my brethren, and my servants, are exacting of them silver and corn; let us leave off, I pray you, this usury.

DBT

I also, my brethren and my servants, we might exact usury of them, money and corn. I pray you, let us leave off this usury.

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I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn,.... For our maintenance, in consideration of the services done by us, which would appear but reasonable, but this we decline for the sake of easing our poor brethren: I pray you let us leave off this usury; and not exact it, as has been too much and too long used.

John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed

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I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words--When such disorders came to the knowledge of the governor, his honest indignation was roused against the perpetrators of the evil.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

Brethren - In office; these who are employed with me in the government of this people. Servants - In my name, and for my use. Exact - As a just recompense for our pains and care for the publick good, to which we wholly devote ourselves, even to the neglect of all our private concerns.

John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765evangelical

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Isaiah 58:6
Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and tear off every yoke?
2 Corinthians 6:1
As God’s fellow workers, then, we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.
Exodus 22:25–27
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 charge him interest.
Matthew 18:28
But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii. He grabbed him and began to choke him, saying, ‘Pay back what you owe me!’
1 Corinthians 9:12–18
If 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.
Ezekiel 18:13
He 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.
Philemon 1:8–9
So although in Christ I am bold enough to order you to do what is proper,
2 Corinthians 5:20
Therefore 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.
Ezekiel 18:8
He does not engage in usury or take excess interest, but he withholds his hand from iniquity and executes true justice between men.
Micah 2:1
Woe 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.
Nehemiah 5:7
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
Psalms 15:5
who lends his money without interest and refuses a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.

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About this book

Nehemiah Views the Ruins of Jerusalem's Walls — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

Nehemiah — The walls rebuilt in fifty-two days; the covenant renewed; the reforms enacted and then re-enacted when Nehemiah returns to find them slipping. A book about civic and spiritual reconstruction side by side.

Canon: Old Testament
Author: Nehemiah (chs. 1–7, 11–13 largely first-person memoir); Ezra-material probably compiled alongside
Date: Events 445–432 BC; final compilation late-5th century BC

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

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2 Corinthians 6:1
As God’s fellow workers, then, we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.
leads to
- Hebrews 12:15
  See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and defile many.
- 1 Corinthians 3:9
  For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.
- 1 Peter 4:10
  As good stewards of the manifold grace of God, each of you should use whatever gift he has received to serve one another.
- 2 Corinthians 5:18–20
  All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:
- Galatians 2:21
  I do not set aside the grace of God. For if righteousness comes through the law, Christ died for nothing.
Through
Ezekiel 18:13
He 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.
leads to
- Exodus 22:25
  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 charge him interest.
- Leviticus 20:9
  If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death. He has cursed his father or mother; his blood shall be upon him.
- Ezekiel 18:8
  He does not engage in usury or take excess interest, but he withholds his hand from iniquity and executes true justice between men.

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