Leviticus 25:37

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You must not lend them money at interest or sell them food for profit.

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  • Deut 23:19-20
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    90%

    19Do not bring the wages of a prostitute or the price of a dog into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, for both are detestable to the LORD your God.

    20Do not charge interest to your fellow Israelite—whether on money, food, or anything that may earn interest.

  • Lev 25:35-36
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    88%

    35If any of your fellow Israelites become poor and are unable to support themselves among you, help them as you would a foreigner or temporary resident, so they can live among you.

    36Do not take interest or profit from them, but fear your God, so that they may continue to live among you.

  • Exod 22:25-26
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    87%

    25If you take your neighbor's cloak as a pledge, return it to him before the sun sets.

    26For it is his only covering, the cloak for his body. What else can he sleep in? If he cries out to me, I will hear him, for I am gracious.

  • Deut 24:10-12
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    10When you lend your neighbor anything, do not enter their house to take what is offered as a pledge.

    11You must wait outside while the person to whom you are lending brings the pledge out to you.

    12If the person is poor, do not keep their pledge overnight.

  • Ezek 18:7-8
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    7He does not oppress anyone, but restores a pledge for a loan; he does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and clothes the naked.

    8He does not lend at interest or take a profit; he withholds his hand from injustice and judges fairly between parties.

  • Neh 5:10
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    10I and my brothers and my men are also lending money and grain, but let us stop charging interest on them.

  • Deut 15:6-11
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    6For the Lord your God will bless you as He promised you, and you will lend to many nations but will not borrow. You will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you.

    7If there is a poor person among your brothers within any of your gates in the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother.

    8Instead, you shall freely open your hand to him and generously lend him whatever he needs.

    9Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought in your heart: 'The seventh year, the year of release, is near,' and you look grudgingly on your poor brother and give him nothing. He will cry out to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

    10You shall surely give to him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because for this thing the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in everything you undertake.

    11For there will never cease to be poor people in the land. Therefore, I command you to freely open your hand to your brother, to the needy, and to the poor in your land.

  • Lev 25:14
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    14If you sell land to your neighbor or buy land from your neighbor, do not take advantage of one another.

  • Lev 25:16-17
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    16The more years there are, the higher you may increase the price, and the fewer years there are, the lower you shall reduce the price, because what they are really selling to you is the number of harvests.

    17Do not take advantage of one another, but fear your God; I am the LORD your God.

  • Deut 24:14-15
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    14Do not take advantage of a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether that worker is a fellow Israelite or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.

    15Pay them their wages each day before sunset, because they are poor and depend on it. Otherwise, they may cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

  • Lev 25:38-39
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    38I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.

    39If any of your fellow Israelites become poor and sell themselves to you, do not make them work as slaves.

  • Ezek 18:13
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    13He lends at interest and takes a profit. Will such a person live? He will not! Because he has committed all these abominations, he will surely be put to death, and his blood will be on his own head.

  • Deut 14:27
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    27And do not neglect the Levite living in your towns, for he has no portion or inheritance with you.

  • Prov 22:26-27
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    26Do not be one who shakes hands in pledge, or who puts up security for debts.

    27If you lack the means to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?

  • Deut 15:14
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    14Provide them generously from your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress. Give to them as the Lord your God has blessed you.

  • Matt 5:42
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    42Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.

  • Deut 28:12
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    12The LORD will open the heavens, His rich treasury, to give rain to your land in its season and bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow.

  • Ps 15:5
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    5Who does not lend money at interest or accept a bribe against the innocent. The one who does these things will never be shaken.

  • Deut 28:44
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    44He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.

  • Deut 15:2-3
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    2This is the manner of the release: Every creditor shall release what they have lent to their neighbor. They shall not demand payment from their neighbor or their relative, because the Lord’s release has been proclaimed.

    3You may demand payment from a foreigner, but you shall release whatever your brother owes you.

  • Lev 19:13
    73%

    13Do not oppress or rob your neighbor. Do not withhold the wages of a hired worker overnight.

  • Deut 24:17
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    17Do not pervert justice for the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow's garment as security for a pledge.

  • Deut 24:6
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    6Do not take a pair of millstones, not even the upper one, as security for a debt, because that would be taking a person's livelihood as a pledge.

  • Lev 25:43
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    43Do not rule over them harshly, but fear your God.

  • Deut 12:17
    72%

    17You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, new wine, or oil, or the firstborn of your herds and flocks, or any of your vowed offerings, freewill offerings, or special contributions.

  • Ezek 22:12
    72%

    12In you, they accept bribes to shed blood; they take interest and increase unlawfully. You have gained profit in extorting your neighbors, and you have forgotten me, declares the Sovereign LORD.

  • Prov 28:8
    72%

    8Whoever increases his wealth by charging interest and unfair gain gathers it for one who is kind to the poor.

  • Prov 23:6
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    6Do not eat the bread of a stingy person, nor crave his delicacies.

  • Exod 23:6
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    6Do not deny justice to your poor among you in their lawsuit.

  • Prov 19:17
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    17Whoever is gracious to the poor lends to the LORD, and he will repay him for his good deed.

  • Lev 19:11
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    11Do not steal. Do not deceive or lie to one another.

  • Job 22:7
    71%

    7You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

  • Lev 25:7
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    7as well as for your livestock and the wild animals in your land. All its produce may be used as food.

  • Deut 12:25
    71%

    25Do not eat it, so that it may go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is right in the eyes of the Lord.