Deuteronomy 23:19
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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.
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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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Luke 6:34-35
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34 And (A)if you (B)lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to get back the same amount. 35 But (C)love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and (D)you will be sons of (E)the Most High, for (F)he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.
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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)
Ezekiel 18:16-18
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16 does not oppress anyone, (A)exacts no pledge, (B)commits no robbery, (C)but gives his bread to the hungry (D)and covers the naked with a garment, 17 withholds his hand from iniquity,[a] takes no interest or profit, obeys my rules, (E)and walks in my statutes; he shall not die for his father's iniquity; (F)he shall surely live. 18 As for his father, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother, and did what is not good among his people, (G)behold, he shall die for his iniquity.
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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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Ezekiel 18:7-8
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7 (A)does not oppress anyone, but (B)restores to the debtor his pledge, (C)commits no robbery, (D)gives his bread to the hungry (E)and covers the naked with a garment, 8 (F)does not lend at interest (G)or take any profit,[a] withholds his hand from injustice, (H)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)
Nehemiah 5:1-7
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Nehemiah Stops Oppression of the Poor
5 Now there arose (A)a great outcry of the people and of their wives (B)against their Jewish brothers. 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 (C)the king's tax on our fields and our vineyards. 5 Now (D)our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet (E)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.”
6 I was very angry when I heard (F)their outcry and these words. 7 I took counsel with myself, and I brought charges against the nobles and the officials. I said to them, (G)“You are exacting interest, each from his brother.” And I held a great assembly against them
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