Interest Payments

The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.

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

You shall not lend on interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on interest. — read the full passage →

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest.

A man void of understanding strikes hands, and becomes collateral in the presence of his neighbor.

Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill. — read the full passage →

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.

Yahweh will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You will lend to many nations, and you will not borrow.

Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, — read the full passage →

Yahweh said to Moses in Mount Sinai, — read the full passage →

Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;