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Nehemiah 5:6I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.Nehemiah 5:7Then 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.Nehemiah 5:8I said to them, “We, after our ability, have redeemed our brothers the Jews that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us?” Then they held their peace, and found never a word.Nehemiah 5:9Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Ought you not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?Nehemiah 5:10I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. Please let us stop this usury.Nehemiah 5:11Please restore to them, even this day, their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that you are charging them.”Nehemiah 5:12Then they said, “We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do, even as you say.” Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise.Nehemiah 5:13Also I shook out my lap, and said, “So may God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, that doesn’t perform this promise; even thus be he shaken out, and emptied.” All the assembly said, “Amen,” and praised Yahweh. The people did according to this promise.Psalm 141:5Let 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.Proverbs 9:7He who corrects a mocker invites insult. He who reproves a wicked man invites abuse.Proverbs 9:8Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise man, and he will love you.Proverbs 10:17He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray.Proverbs 12:1Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.Proverbs 13:18Poverty and shame come to him who refuses discipline, but he who heeds correction shall be honored.Proverbs 15:5A fool despises his father’s correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.Proverbs 15:10There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way: whoever hates reproof shall die.Proverbs 15:12A scoffer doesn’t love to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.Proverbs 15:31The ear that listens to reproof lives, and will be at home among the wise.Proverbs 15:32He who refuses correction despises his own soul, but he who listens to reproof gets understanding.Proverbs 17:10A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding than a hundred lashes into a fool.Proverbs 19:25Flog a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; rebuke one who has understanding, and he will gain knowledge.Proverbs 21:11When the mocker is punished, the simple gains wisdom. When the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.Proverbs 25:12As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to an obedient ear.Proverbs 26:5Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.Proverbs 27:5Better is open rebuke than hidden love.Proverbs 27:6Faithful are the wounds of a friend; although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.Proverbs 28:23One who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than one who flatters with the tongue.Ecclesiastes 7:5It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.Jeremiah 26:8It happened, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that Yahweh had commanded him to speak to all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold on him, saying, You shall surely die.Jeremiah 26:9Why have you prophesied in the name of Yahweh, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without inhabitant? All the people were gathered to Jeremiah in the house of Yahweh.Jeremiah 26:10When the princes of Judah heard these things, they came up from the king’s house to the house of Yahweh; and they sat in the entry of the new gate of Yahweh’s house.Jeremiah 26:11Then spoke the priests and the prophets to the princes and to all the people, saying, This man is worthy of death; for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears.Daniel 4:27Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.Daniel 5:17Then Daniel answered before the king, Let your gifts be to yourself, and give your rewards to another; nevertheless I will read the writing to the king, and make known to him the interpretation.Daniel 5:18You, king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty:Daniel 5:19and because of the greatness that he gave him, all the peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him: whom he would he killed, and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he raised up, and whom he would he put down.Daniel 5:20But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:Daniel 5:21and he was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the animals’, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys; he was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky; until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that he sets up over it whomever he will.Daniel 5:22You, his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this,Daniel 5:23but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have drunk wine from them; and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not glorified.Daniel 5:24Then was the part of the hand sent from before him, and this writing was inscribed.Amos 5:10They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.Amos 7:12Amaziah also said to Amos, “You seer, go, flee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:Amos 7:13but don’t prophesy again any more at Bethel; for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a royal house!”Amos 7:14Then Amos answered Amaziah, “I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son; but I was a herdsman, and a farmer of sycamore figs;Amos 7:15and Yahweh took me from following the flock, and Yahweh said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’Amos 7:16Now therefore listen to the word of Yahweh: ‘You say, Don’t prophesy against Israel, and don’t preach against the house of Isaac.’Amos 7:17Therefore thus says Yahweh: ‘Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line; and you yourself shall die in a land that is unclean, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.’”Matthew 3:7But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?Matthew 3:8Therefore bring forth fruit worthy of repentance!Matthew 3:9Don’t think to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father,’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.Matthew 3:10“Even now the axe lies at the root of the trees. Therefore, every tree that doesn’t bring forth good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.Matthew 3:11I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.Matthew 3:12His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”Matthew 14:3For Herod had laid hold of John, and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife.Matthew 16:1The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven.Matthew 16:2But he answered them, “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’Matthew 16:3In the morning, ‘It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ Hypocrites! You know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but you can’t discern the signs of the times!Matthew 16:4An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there will be no sign given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah.” He left them, and departed.Matthew 18:15“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.