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Exodus 22:25
“ If you lend money to any of my people who are in need, do not charge interest as a money lender would.
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Deuteronomy 23:19-20
“ Do not charge interest on the loans you make to a fellow Israelite, whether you loan money, or food, or anything else.You may charge interest to foreigners, but you may not charge interest to Israelites, so that the Lord your God may bless you in everything you do in the land you are about to enter and occupy.
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Leviticus 25:17
Show your fear of God by not taking advantage of each other. I am the Lord your God.
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Ezekiel 18:13
and lends money at excessive interest. Should such a sinful person live? No! He must die and must take full blame.
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Ezekiel 18:8
He grants loans without interest, stays away from injustice, is honest and fair when judging others,
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Ezekiel 18:17
He helps the poor, does not lend money at interest, and obeys all my regulations and decrees. Such a person will not die because of his father’s sins; he will surely live.
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Ezekiel 22:12
There are hired murderers, loan racketeers, and extortioners everywhere. They never even think of me and my commands, says the Sovereign Lord.
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Proverbs 28:8
Income from charging high interest rates will end up in the pocket of someone who is kind to the poor.
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Nehemiah 5:15
The former governors, in contrast, had laid heavy burdens on the people, demanding a daily ration of food and wine, besides forty pieces of silver. Even their assistants took advantage of the people. But because I feared God, I did not act that way.
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Psalms 15:5
Those who lend money without charging interest, and who cannot be bribed to lie about the innocent. Such people will stand firm forever.
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Nehemiah 5:7-10
After thinking it over, I spoke out against these nobles and officials. I told them,“ You are hurting your own relatives by charging interest when they borrow money!” Then I called a public meeting to deal with the problem.At the meeting I said to them,“ We are doing all we can to redeem our Jewish relatives who have had to sell themselves to pagan foreigners, but you are selling them back into slavery again. How often must we redeem them?” And they had nothing to say in their defense.Then I pressed further,“ What you are doing is not right! Should you not walk in the fear of our God in order to avoid being mocked by enemy nations?I myself, as well as my brothers and my workers, have been lending the people money and grain, but now let us stop this business of charging interest.