Proverbs 27:5

For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,

“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.

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness even until now.

The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” He called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.

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

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

Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?”

He said to them, “You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn’t call any man unholy or unclean.

For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down.

to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you.

Don’t count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

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

that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance:

But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

Didn’t he tell me, ‘She is my sister’? She, even she herself, said, ‘He is my brother.’ I have done this in the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands.”

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.”

What, don’t you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God’s assembly and put them to shame who don’t have enough? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don’t praise you.

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

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

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

Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.

She said to the servant, “Who is the man who is walking in the field to meet us?” The servant said, “It is my master.” She took her veil, and covered herself.

For every matter of trespass, whether it is for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for clothing, or for any kind of lost thing, about which one says, ‘This is mine,’ the cause of both parties shall come before God. He whom God condemns shall pay double to his neighbor.

Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare among you;

“ ‘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.

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—

Be careful, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves a carved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you.

The man who does presumptuously in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Yahweh your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die. You shall put away the evil from Israel.

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.

For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.

He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,

Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise person, and he will love you.

A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding than a hundred lashes into a fool.

but it will go well with those who convict the guilty, and a rich blessing will come on them.

Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me. New moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can’t stand evil assemblies.

‘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.

“You, son of man, will you judge? Will you judge the bloody city? Then cause her to know all her abominations.

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.

Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.

who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.

Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.

If therefore the whole assembly is assembled together and all speak with other languages, and unlearned or unbelieving people come in, won’t they say that you are crazy?

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

But when I saw that they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?

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

Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise,

For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ,

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it,

or to governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evildoers and for praise to those who do well.

Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.

I have no greater joy than this: to hear about my children walking in truth.

There was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. The Canaanites and the Perizzites lived in the land at that time.

Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.

Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, “You exact usury, everyone of his brother.” I held a great assembly against them.

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—

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

For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

“Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he will die. Because you have not given him warning, he will die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered; but I will require his blood at your hand.

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.

For this cause the woman ought to have authority over her own head, because of the angels.

But in giving you this command, I don’t praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the worse.

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

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

“ ‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.