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Psalms 15:5
Those who lend money without charging interest, and who cannot be bribed to lie about the innocent. Such people will stand firm forever.
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Leviticus 25:35-37
“ If one of your fellow Israelites falls into poverty and cannot support himself, support him as you would a foreigner or a temporary resident and allow him to live with you.Do not charge interest or make a profit at his expense. Instead, show your fear of God by letting him live with you as your relative.Remember, do not charge interest on money you lend him or make a profit on food you sell him.
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Deuteronomy 23:19-20
“ Do not charge interest on the loans you make to a fellow Israelite, whether you loan money, or food, or anything else.You may charge interest to foreigners, but you may not charge interest to Israelites, so that the Lord your God may bless you in everything you do in the land you are about to enter and occupy.
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Ezekiel 18:8
He grants loans without interest, stays away from injustice, is honest and fair when judging others,
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Nehemiah 5:7
After thinking it over, I spoke out against these nobles and officials. I told them,“ You are hurting your own relatives by charging interest when they borrow money!” Then I called a public meeting to deal with the problem.
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Proverbs 28:8
Income from charging high interest rates will end up in the pocket of someone who is kind to the poor.
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Ezekiel 18:17
He helps the poor, does not lend money at interest, and obeys all my regulations and decrees. Such a person will not die because of his father’s sins; he will surely live.
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Ezekiel 22:12
There are hired murderers, loan racketeers, and extortioners everywhere. They never even think of me and my commands, says the Sovereign Lord.
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2 Kings 4 7
When she told the man of God what had happened, he said to her,“ Now sell the olive oil and pay your debts, and you and your sons can live on what is left over.”
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2 Kings 4 1
One day the widow of a member of the group of prophets came to Elisha and cried out,“ My husband who served you is dead, and you know how he feared the Lord. But now a creditor has come, threatening to take my two sons as slaves.”
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Jeremiah 15:10
Then I said,“ What sorrow is mine, my mother. Oh, that I had died at birth! I am hated everywhere I go. I am neither a lender who threatens to foreclose nor a borrower who refuses to pay— yet they all curse me.”
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Ezekiel 18:13
and lends money at excessive interest. Should such a sinful person live? No! He must die and must take full blame.
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Nehemiah 5:2-5
They were saying,“ We have such large families. We need more food to survive.”Others said,“ We have mortgaged our fields, vineyards, and homes to get food during the famine.”And others said,“ We have had to borrow money on our fields and vineyards to pay our taxes.We belong to the same family as those who are wealthy, and our children are just like theirs. Yet we must sell our children into slavery just to get enough money to live. We have already sold some of our daughters, and we are helpless to do anything about it, for our fields and vineyards are already mortgaged to others.”
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Nehemiah 5:10-11
I myself, as well as my brothers and my workers, have been lending the people money and grain, but now let us stop this business of charging interest.You must restore their fields, vineyards, olive groves, and homes to them this very day. And repay the interest you charged when you lent them money, grain, new wine, and olive oil.”
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Luke 19:23
why didn’t you deposit my money in the bank? At least I could have gotten some interest on it.’
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Matthew 25:27
why didn’t you deposit my money in the bank? At least I could have gotten some interest on it.’
