Usury

“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor; neither shall you charge him interest.

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.

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

has lent on interest, and has taken increase; shall he then live? he shall not live: he has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be on him.

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

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.

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

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

he who has not lent on interest, neither has taken any increase, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man,

who has withdrawn his hand from the poor, who has not received interest nor increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.

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 →

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 everyone of them curses me.

You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

You may lend on interest to a foreigner; but to your brother you shall not lend on interest, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it.

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.

“‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand can’t support himself among you; then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident. — read the full passage →

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

Then why didn’t you deposit my money in the bank, and at my coming, I might have earned interest on it?’

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

It will be as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest.

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews. — read the full passage →

Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God; that your brother may live among you. — read the full passage →

Yahweh, who shall dwell in your sanctuary? Who shall live on your holy hill? — read the full passage →

The wicked borrow, and don’t pay back, but the righteous give generously.

Give to him who asks you, and don’t turn away him who desires to borrow from you.

It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother; — read the full passage →

It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment. — read the full passage →

“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor; neither shall you charge him interest. — read the full passage →

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

“‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand can’t support himself among you; then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident. — read the full passage →

Don’t you be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral for debts. — read the full passage →

“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom. — read the full passage →

and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy of them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, — read the full passage →

He entered and was passing through Jericho. — read the full passage →

He who is emasculated by crushing or cutting shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly. — read the full passage →

“‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand can’t support himself among you; then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

Thus says Yahweh, “Where is the bill of your mother’s divorce, with which I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were you sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away.

Won’t your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?

Please 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.”

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

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.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His seed is blessed.

Another came, saying, ‘Lord, behold, your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief, — read the full passage →

I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. Please let us stop this usury. — read the full passage →

Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.

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

and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment; — read the full passage →

and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment; — read the full passage →

But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth; that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as at this day.

He who is collateral for a stranger will suffer for it, but he who refuses pledges of collateral is secure.

Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who wanted to reconcile accounts with his servants. — read the full passage →

I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall lay my vengeance on them.

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 →

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger; — read the full passage →

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

For there were that said, “We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live.”

If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother; — read the full passage →

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

This is the way it shall be done: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not require payment from his neighbor and his brother; because Yahweh’s release has been proclaimed.

If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive back as much.

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.

He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel: — read the full passage →

Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness — read the full passage →

If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive back as much. — read the full passage →

Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants. — read the full passage →

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy; — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

“‘As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may have; of the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves. — read the full passage →

Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins, he shall die.

At the end of every seven years, you shall cancel debts. — read the full passage →

“‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand can’t support himself among you; then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident. — read the full passage →

For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

he who has not lent on interest, neither has taken any increase, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man, — read the full passage →

Yahweh is their strength. He is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

Yahweh makes poor, and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.

Jesus entered into the temple of God, and drove out all of those who sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers’ tables and the seats of those who sold the doves. — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

When you vow a vow to Yahweh your God, you shall not be slack to pay it; for Yahweh your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

Yahweh’s word came to me again, saying, — read the full passage →

There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man swallows it up.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

“‘If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you; you shall not make him to serve as a slave. — read the full passage →

Also 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? — read the full passage →

I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words. — read the full passage →