Deuteronomy 23:19

KJV1611 – Modern English

You shall not lend with interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent with interest:

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  • Exod 22:25 : 25 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 interest.
  • Lev 25:35-37 : 35 And if your brother becomes poor, and falls into decay with you; then you shall relieve him: yes, though he is a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with you. 36 Take no usury from him, or increase; but fear your God; that your brother may live with you. 37 You shall not give him your money upon usury, nor lend him your food for increase.
  • Ps 15:5 : 5 He who does not put out his money at usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.
  • Ezek 18:7-8 : 7 And has not oppressed anyone, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has spoiled none by violence, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment, 8 He that has not given out loans with interest, nor taken any increase, that has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true judgment between man and man,
  • Ezek 18:13 : 13 Has given out loans with interest, and has taken increase; shall he then live? He shall not live: he has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.
  • Ezek 18:16-18 : 16 Nor has oppressed anyone, has not withheld the pledge, nor spoiled by violence, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment, 17 Who has taken off his hand from the poor, who has not received interest nor increase, has executed My judgments, has walked in My statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live. 18 As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did what is not good among his people, behold, even he shall die in his iniquity.
  • Ezek 22:12 : 12 In you they have taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken usury and increase, and you have greedily gained from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten Me, says the Lord GOD.
  • Luke 6:34-35 : 34 And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what thanks do you have? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again. 35 But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward shall be great, and you shall be children of the Highest: for he is kind to the unthankful and to the evil.
  • Neh 5:1-7 : 1 And there was a great outcry of the people and their wives against their fellow Jews. 2 For there were those who said, We, our sons, and our daughters are many: therefore we need to take grain for them, that we may eat and live. 3 Others said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses to buy grain because of the famine. 4 There were also those who said, We have borrowed money for the king's tax, against our lands and vineyards. 5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and indeed, we bring into bondage our sons and daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are already in bondage; nor is it in our power to redeem them, for other men have our lands and vineyards. 6 And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words. 7 Then I consulted with myself and rebuked the nobles and rulers, and said to them, You are charging interest, each one from his brother. And I called a great assembly against them.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 25:35-37
    3 verses
    90%

    35And if your brother becomes poor, and falls into decay with you; then you shall relieve him: yes, though he is a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with you.

    36Take no usury from him, or increase; but fear your God; that your brother may live with you.

    37You shall not give him your money upon usury, nor lend him your food for increase.

  • Deut 23:20-21
    2 verses
    90%

    20To a stranger you may lend with interest; but to your brother you shall not lend with interest, that the LORD your God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land which you are going to possess.

    21When you shall vow a vow to the LORD your God, you shall not delay to pay it: for the LORD your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you.

  • Exod 22:25-26
    2 verses
    86%

    25If 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 interest.

    26If you take your neighbor's garment as a pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down,

  • Deut 24:10-14
    5 verses
    78%

    10When you lend your brother anything, you shall not go into his house to fetch his pledge.

    11You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you lend shall bring out the pledge to you.

    12And if the man is poor, you shall not sleep with his pledge:

    13In any case you shall return the pledge to him when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his own clothing, and bless you: and it shall be righteousness to you before the LORD your God.

    14You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is of your brethren or of the strangers that are in your land within your gates:

  • Neh 5:10
    76%

    10I likewise, and my brethren and my servants, could demand money and grain from them. I pray you, let us stop this interest.

  • Ezek 18:7-8
    2 verses
    74%

    7And has not oppressed anyone, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has spoiled none by violence, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment,

    8He that has not given out loans with interest, nor taken any increase, that has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true judgment between man and man,

  • Deut 15:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor who lends anything to his neighbor shall release it; he shall not require it from his neighbor or his brother, because it is called the LORD'S release.

    3Of a foreigner, you may require it again, but what is yours with your brother your hand shall release;

  • Lev 25:14
    73%

    14And if you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy anything of your neighbor's hand, you shall not oppress one another:

  • Ezek 18:13
    72%

    13Has given out loans with interest, and has taken increase; shall he then live? He shall not live: he has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.

  • Lev 25:39
    72%

    39And if your brother who dwells by you becomes poor, and is sold to you; you shall not compel him to serve as a bondservant:

  • Deut 15:6-10
    5 verses
    72%

    6For the LORD your God blesses you, as he promised you: and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over you.

    7If there is among you a poor man of one of your brothers within any of your gates in your land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart nor shut your hand from your poor brother.

    8But you shall open your hand wide to him, and shall surely give him sufficient for his need, in what he wants.

    9Beware that there is not a wicked thought in your heart, saying, 'The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,' and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cries to the LORD against you, and it be sin to you.

    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 shall bless you in all your works, and in all that you put your hand to.

  • Deut 24:17
    71%

    17You shall not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's clothing as a pledge:

  • Ps 15:5
    71%

    5He who does not put out his money at usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.

  • Deut 24:6
    71%

    6No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone as a pledge: for he takes a man's life as a pledge.

  • Ezek 22:12
    71%

    12In you they have taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken usury and increase, and you have greedily gained from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten Me, says the Lord GOD.

  • Deut 22:1
    70%

    1You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray and hide yourself from them; you shall certainly bring them back to your brother.

  • Exod 23:6
    70%

    6You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his dispute.

  • Deut 12:17
    70%

    17You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your voluntary offerings, or heave offering of your hand:

  • Isa 24:2
    70%

    2And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest to him.

  • Deut 23:18
    70%

    18You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD your God for any vow: for even both these are an abomination to the LORD your God.

  • Job 22:6
    69%

    6For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

  • Deut 28:44
    69%

    44He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him: he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.

  • Deut 28:12
    69%

    12The LORD shall open unto you His good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand: and you shall lend unto many nations, and you shall not borrow.

  • Deut 14:27
    69%

    27And the Levite that is within your gates; you shall not forsake him; for he has no part nor inheritance with you.

  • Prov 22:26-27
    2 verses
    69%

    26Do not be one of those who shake hands, or of those who are sureties for debts.

    27If you have nothing to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?

  • Lev 25:47
    69%

    47And if a sojourner or stranger becomes rich by you, and your brother that dwells by him becomes poor, and sells himself to the stranger or sojourner by you, or to the stock of the stranger's family:

  • Prov 19:17
    69%

    17He who has pity on the poor lends to the LORD, and that which he has given will He pay him again.

  • Prov 23:6
    69%

    6Do not eat the bread of him who has an evil eye, nor desire his delicacies:

  • Exod 23:19
    69%

    19The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring into the house of the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

  • Lev 19:13
    69%

    13You shall not defraud your neighbor, nor rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

  • Lev 25:17
    69%

    17You shall not oppress one another; but you shall fear your God: for I am the LORD your God.

  • Lev 19:11
    69%

    11You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another.

  • Prov 28:8
    68%

    8He who by usury and unjust gain increases his wealth gathers it for one who will pity the poor.

  • Deut 12:25
    68%

    25You shall not eat it, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do what is right in the sight of the LORD.

  • Lev 19:17
    68%

    17You shall not hate your brother in your heart; you shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not suffer sin upon him.