¹⁹ Do not charge a fellow Israelite interest, whether on money or food or anything else that may earn interest.^(A)

²⁵ “If you lend money to one of my people among you who is needy, do not treat it like a business deal; charge no interest.^(A)

³⁵ “‘If any of your fellow Israelites become poor^(A) and are unable to support themselves among you, help them^(B) as you would a foreigner and stranger, so they can continue to live among you. ³⁶ Do not take interest^(C) or any profit from them, but fear your God,^(D) so that they may continue to live among you. ³⁷ You must not lend them money at interest^(E) or sell them food at a profit.

³⁴ And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you?^(A) Even sinners lend to sinners, expecting to be repaid in full. ³⁵ But love your enemies, do good to them,^(B) and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children^(C) of the Most High,^(D) because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.

¹² In you are people who accept bribes^(A) to shed blood; you take interest^(B) and make a profit from the poor. You extort unjust gain from your neighbors.^(C) And you have forgotten^(D) me, declares the Sovereign Lord.^(E)

He will not die for his father’s sin; he will surely live. ¹⁸ But his father will die for his own sin, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother and did what was wrong among his people.

Will such a man live? He will not! Because he has done all these detestable things, he is to be put to death; his blood will be on his own head.^(B)