Psalm 15:5
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5 He who does not put out his money at usury,
Nor does he take a bribe against the innocent.
He who does these things (A)shall never be moved.
Exodus 22:25
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25 (A)“If you lend money to any of My people who are poor among you, you shall not be like a moneylender to him; you shall not charge him (B)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 usury and increase; you have made profit from your neighbors by extortion, and (C)have forgotten Me,” says the Lord God.
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Deuteronomy 16:19
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19 (A)You shall not pervert justice; (B)you shall not [a]show partiality, (C)nor take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and [b]twists the words of the righteous.
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- Deuteronomy 16:19 Lit. regard faces
- Deuteronomy 16:19 perverts
Ezekiel 18:8
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8 If he has not [a]exacted (A)usury
Nor taken any increase,
But has withdrawn his hand from iniquity
And (B)executed true [b]judgment between man and man;
Footnotes
- Ezekiel 18:8 Lent money at interest
- Ezekiel 18:8 justice
Matthew 7:21-25
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I Never Knew You(A)
21 “Not everyone who says to Me, (B)‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who (C)does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we (D)not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 And (E)then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; (F)depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’
Build on the Rock(G)
24 “Therefore (H)whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: 25 and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.
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John 13:17
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17 (A)If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
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Deuteronomy 23:19-20
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19 (A)“You shall not charge interest to your brother—interest on money or food or anything that is lent out at interest. 20 (B)To a foreigner you may charge interest, but to your brother you shall not charge interest, (C)that the Lord your God may bless you in all to which you set your hand in the land which you are entering to possess.
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James 1:22-25
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22 But (A)be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For (B)if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; 24 for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 25 But (C)he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, (D)this one will be blessed in what he does.
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Matthew 27:3-5
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Judas Hangs Himself(A)
3 (B)Then Judas, His betrayer, seeing that He had been condemned, was remorseful and brought back the thirty (C)pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, 4 saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.”
And they said, “What is that to us? You see to it!”
5 Then he threw down the pieces of silver in the temple and (D)departed, and went and hanged himself.
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Proverbs 12:3
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3 A man is not established by wickedness,
But the (A)root of the righteous cannot be moved.
Psalm 112:6
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6 Surely he will never be shaken;
(A)The righteous will be in everlasting remembrance.
Psalm 106:3
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- Psalm 106:3 LXX, Syr., Tg., Vg. those who do
Psalm 55:22
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22 (A)Cast your burden on the Lord,
And (B)He shall sustain you;
He shall never permit the righteous to be [a]moved.
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- Psalm 55:22 shaken
Exodus 23:7-8
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7 (A)Keep yourself far from a false matter; (B)do not kill the innocent and righteous. For (C)I will not justify the wicked. 8 And (D)you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the discerning and perverts the words of the righteous.
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2 Peter 1:10-11
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10 Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent (A)to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble; 11 for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
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Matthew 26:15
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15 and said, (A)“What are you willing to give me if I deliver Him to you?” And they counted out to him thirty pieces of silver.
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Micah 7:3
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3 That they may successfully do evil with both hands—
The prince asks for gifts,
The judge seeks a (A)bribe,
And the great man utters his evil desire;
So they scheme together.
Ezekiel 18:27
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27 Again, (A)when a wicked man turns away from the wickedness which he committed, and does what is lawful and right, he preserves himself alive.
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Ezekiel 18:17
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17 Who has withdrawn his hand from [a]the poor
And not received usury or increase,
But has executed My judgments
And walked in My statutes—
He shall not die for the iniquity of his father;
He shall surely live!
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- Ezekiel 18:17 So with MT, Tg., Vg.; LXX iniquity (cf. v. 8)
Isaiah 33:15
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15 He who (A)walks righteously and speaks uprightly,
He who despises the gain of oppressions,
Who gestures with his hands, refusing bribes,
Who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed,
And (B)shuts his eyes from seeing evil:
Psalm 16:8
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8 (A)I have set the Lord always before me;
Because He is at my right hand I shall not be moved.
Nehemiah 5:7-13
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7 After serious thought, I rebuked the nobles and rulers, and said to them, (A)“Each of you is [a]exacting usury from his brother.” So I [b]called a great assembly against them. 8 And I said to them, “According to our ability we have (B)redeemed our Jewish brethren who were sold to the nations. Now indeed, will you even sell your brethren? Or should they be sold to us?”
Then they were silenced and found nothing to say. 9 Then I said, “What you are doing is not good. Should you not walk (C)in the fear of our God (D)because of the reproach of the nations, our enemies? 10 I also, with my brethren and my servants, am lending them money and grain. Please, let us stop this [c]usury! 11 Restore now to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also a hundredth of the money and the grain, the new wine and the oil, that you have charged them.”
12 So they said, “We will restore it, and will require nothing from them; we will do as you say.”
Then I called the priests, (E)and required an oath from them that they would do according to this promise. 13 Then (F)I shook out [d]the fold of my garment and said, “So may God shake out each man from his house, and from his property, who does not perform this promise. Even thus may he be shaken out and emptied.”
And all the assembly said, “Amen!” and praised the Lord. (G)Then the people did according to this promise.
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- Nehemiah 5:7 charging interest
- Nehemiah 5:7 Lit. held
- Nehemiah 5:10 interest
- Nehemiah 5:13 Lit. my lap
Nehemiah 5:2-5
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2 For there were those who said, “We, our sons, and our daughters are many; therefore let us get grain, that we may eat and live.”
3 There were also some who said, “We have mortgaged our lands and vineyards and houses, that we might buy grain because of the famine.”
4 There were also those who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tax on our lands and vineyards. 5 Yet now (A)our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children; and indeed we (B)are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have been brought into slavery. It is not in our power to redeem them, for other men have our lands and vineyards.”
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Leviticus 25:35-37
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Lending to the Poor
35 ‘If one of your brethren becomes poor, and [a]falls into poverty among you, then you shall (A)help him, like a stranger or a sojourner, that he may live with you. 36 (B)Take no usury or interest from him; but (C)fear your God, that your brother may live with you. 37 You shall not lend him your money for usury, nor lend him your food at a profit.
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- Leviticus 25:35 Lit. his hand fails
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