Just Because It’s Legal or Normal Doesn’t Mean It’s Right
The issue of exacting interest in Nehemiah’s time was completely legal and common practice. Yet, Nehemiah challenges it: “Let us abandon this exacting of interest.” (Nehemiah 5:10). Just because something is accepted doesn’t make it good.
Nehemiah himself had the right to a governor’s allowance, a privilege every governor before him had taken. Yet, he refused it. Instead, he covered the cost of feeding 150 men at his own expense (Nehem...
Landlords Not Maximizing Profit
