^19 (A)You shall not pervert justice. ^(B)You shall not show partiality, ^(C)and you shall not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of the righteous.

^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.

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.

^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,

I Never Knew You

^21 (A)“Not everyone who ^(B)says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will ^(C)enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who ^(D)does the will of my Father who is in heaven. ^22 (E)On that day ^(F)many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not ^(G)prophesy in your name, and cast out demons ^(H)in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ ^23 (I)And then will I declare to them, ‘I ^(J)never knew you; ^(K)depart from me, ^(L)you workers of lawlessness.’

Build Your House on the Rock

^24 (M)“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like ^(N)a wise man who built his house on the rock. ²⁵ And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.

^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.

²² But be ^(A)doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. ²³ For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. ²⁴ For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. ²⁵ But the one who looks into the perfect law, ^(B)the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, ^(C)he will be blessed in his doing.

¹⁷ If you know these things, ^(A)blessed are you if you do them.