Exodus 22:25
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25 (A)“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be like a moneylender to him, and you shall not exact interest from him.
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Psalm 15:5
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5 who (A)does not put out his money at interest
and (B)does not take a bribe against the innocent.
He who does these things shall never be (C)moved.
Leviticus 25:35-37
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Kindness for Poor Brothers
35 “If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, (A)you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you. 36 (B)Take no interest from him or profit, but (C)fear your God, that your brother may live beside you. 37 (D)You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.
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Deuteronomy 23:19-20
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19 (A)“You shall not charge interest on loans to your brother, (B)interest on money, interest on food, interest on anything that is lent for interest. 20 (C)You may charge a foreigner interest, but you may not charge your brother interest, (D)that the Lord your God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
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Ezekiel 18:8
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8 (A)does not lend at interest (B)or take any profit,[a] withholds his hand from injustice, (C)executes true justice between man and man,
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- Ezekiel 18:8 That is, profit that comes from charging interest to the poor; also verses 13, 17 (compare Leviticus 25:36)
Proverbs 28:8
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8 Whoever multiplies his wealth (A)by interest and profit[a]
(B)gathers it for him who is (C)generous to the poor.
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- Proverbs 28:8 That is, profit that comes from charging interest to the poor
Nehemiah 5:7
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7 I took counsel with myself, and I brought charges against the nobles and the officials. I said to them, (A)“You are exacting interest, each from his brother.” And I held a great assembly against them
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Ezekiel 18:17
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17 withholds his hand from iniquity,[a] takes no interest or profit, obeys my rules, (A)and walks in my statutes; he shall not die for his father's iniquity; (B)he shall surely live.
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- Ezekiel 18:17 Septuagint; Hebrew from the poor
Ezekiel 18:13
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13 (A)lends at interest, and takes profit; shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; (B)his blood shall be upon himself.
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Jeremiah 15:10
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Jeremiah's Complaint
10 (A)Woe is me, my mother, that you bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! (B)I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me.
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Nehemiah 5:10-11
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10 Moreover, I and my brothers and my servants are lending them money and grain. Let us abandon this exacting of interest. 11 Return to them this very day their fields, their vineyards, their olive orchards, and their houses, and the percentage of money, grain, wine, and oil that you have been exacting from them.”
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Nehemiah 5:2-5
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2 For there were those who said, “With our sons and our daughters, we are many. So let us get grain, that we may eat and keep alive.” 3 There were also those who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses to get grain because of the famine.” 4 And there were those who said, “We have borrowed money for (A)the king's tax on our fields and our vineyards. 5 Now (B)our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet (C)we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.”
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2 Kings 4:7
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7 She came and told the (A)man of God, and he said, “Go, sell the oil and pay your debts, and you and your sons can live on the rest.”
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2 Kings 4:1
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Elisha and the Widow's Oil
4 Now the wife of one of the (A)sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord, (B)but the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.”
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Luke 19:23
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23 Why then did you not put my money in the bank, and at my coming I might have collected it with interest?’
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Matthew 25:27
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27 Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest.
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Ezekiel 22:12
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12 In you (A)they take bribes to shed blood; (B)you take interest and profit[a] and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; but (C)me you have forgotten, declares the Lord God.
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- Ezekiel 22:12 That is, profit that comes from charging interest to the poor (compare Leviticus 25:36)
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