Some Bible Topics
charging interest
Exodus Chapter 22:25
If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.
Leviticus Chapter 25:35
And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.
Leviticus Chapter 25:36
Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.
Leviticus Chapter 25:37
Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.
Deuteronomy Chapter 23:19
Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:
Deuteronomy Chapter 23:20
Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
Psalm Chapter 15:5
He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.
Proverbs Chapter 22:7
The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
Proverbs Chapter 28:8
He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.
Ezekiel Chapter 22:12
In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.
Matthew Chapter 5:42
Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
Matthew Chapter 25:27
Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
Luke Chapter 6:34
And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.
Luke Chapter 6:35
But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
Romans Chapter 13:8
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.