Nehemiah 5:7

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.”

Who may ascend to Yahweh’s hill? Who may stand in his holy place?

I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires:

Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

“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.

All Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall not do any more wickedness like this among you.

You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

You shall not lend on interest to your brother: interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on interest.

Please don’t let me respect any man’s person, neither will I give flattering titles to any man.

he who hasn’t lent to them with interest, hasn’t taken any increase from them, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man,

My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality.

“You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You shall not testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice.

Take no interest from him or profit; but fear your God, that your brother may live among you.

‘Cursed is he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

I sought your favor with my whole heart. Be merciful to me according to your word.

When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more; but the righteous stand firm forever.

To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, nor to deprive the innocent of justice.

One who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than one who flatters with the tongue.

Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy.”

Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God;’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

To Sarah he said, “Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a covering of the eyes to all that are with you. In front of all you are vindicated.”

His sons didn’t walk in his ways, but turned away after dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.

Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

Then I contended with the rulers, and said, “Why is God’s house forsaken?” I gathered them together, and set them in their place.

I contended with them, and cursed them, and struck certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.

This is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek your face—even Jacob.

Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father’s house.

I will dwell in your tent forever. I will take refuge in the shelter of your wings.

These also are sayings of the wise. To show partiality in judgment is not good.

He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife, and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; yet every one of them curses me.

Yahweh says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.

“Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because you have forgotten me, and cast me behind your back, therefore you also bear your lewdness and your prostitution.’ ”

You shall tell the rebellious, even the house of Israel, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “You house of Israel, let that be enough of all your abominations,

These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

and said, “What are you willing to give me, that I should deliver him to you?” They weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver.

If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

Therefore let no one despise him. But set him forward on his journey in peace, that he may come to me; for I expect him with the brothers.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free person; but Christ is all, and in all.

of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.

“ ‘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.

You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am Yahweh your God.

‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

he 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.

I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

Blessed are those who keep justice. Blessed is one who does what is right at all times.

For he will never be shaken. The righteous will be remembered forever.

I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, Yahweh, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.

‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you don’t see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you don’t notice?’ “Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and oppress all your laborers.

who has withdrawn his hand from the poor, who hasn’t received interest or increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father. He shall surely live.

Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he will save his soul alive.

In 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.

Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. Please let us stop this usury.

Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and Tobiah’s letters came to them.

Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them, “What evil thing is this that you do, and profane the Sabbath day?

because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn’t go out of the door—

Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still.

Yahweh, who shall dwell in your sanctuary? Who shall live on your holy hill?

When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, Yahweh.”

Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?

Better is open rebuke than hidden love.

“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Let it suffice you, princes of Israel: remove violence and plunder, and execute justice and righteousness; dispossessing my people,” says the Lord Yahweh.

If 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.

“But that servant went out, and found one of his fellow servants, who owed him one hundred denarii, and he grabbed him, and took him by the throat, saying, ‘Pay me what you owe!’

Therefore 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.

But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.

Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.

Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one despise you.