Leviticus 25:36

World English Bible (2000)

Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God; that your brother may live among you.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 22:25 : 25 "If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor; neither shall you charge him interest.
  • Deut 23:19-20 : 19 You shall not lend on interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on interest: 20 to a foreigner you may lend on interest; but to your brother you shall not lend on interest, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it.
  • Ezek 18:8 : 8 he who has not given forth on interest, neither has taken any increase, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man,
  • Ezek 18:13 : 13 has given forth on 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 on him.
  • Ezek 18:17 : 17 who has withdrawn his hand from the poor, who has not received interest nor increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.
  • Lev 25:17 : 17 You shall not wrong one another; but you shall fear your God: for I am Yahweh your God.
  • Ezek 22:12 : 12 In you have they taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, says the Lord Yahweh.
  • Neh 5:7-9 : 7 Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, "You exact usury, everyone of his brother." I held a great assembly against them. 8 I said to them, "We, after our ability, have redeemed our brothers the Jews that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us?" Then they held their peace, and found never a word. 9 Also I said, "The thing that you do is not good. Ought you not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies? 10 I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. Please let us stop this usury.
  • Neh 5:15 : 15 But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, besides forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants ruled over the people: but I didn't do so, because of the fear of God.
  • Ps 15:5 : 5 he who doesn't lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be shaken. A Poem by David.
  • Prov 28:8 : 8 He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 25:37-40
    4 verses
    88%

    37 You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

    38 I am Yahweh your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.

    39 "'If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you; you shall not make him to serve as a slave.

    40 As a hired servant, and as a temporary resident, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee:

  • Deut 23:19-20
    2 verses
    84%

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

    20 to a foreigner you may lend on interest; but to your brother you shall not lend on interest, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it.

  • Exod 22:25-26
    2 verses
    83%

    25 "If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor; neither shall you charge him interest.

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

  • Lev 25:35
    83%

    35 "'If your brother has become poor, and his hand can't support him among you; then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident.

  • Deut 15:2-4
    3 verses
    76%

    2 This is the way of the release: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother; because Yahweh's release has been proclaimed.

    3 Of a foreigner you may exact it: but whatever of your is with your brother your hand shall release.

    4 However there shall be no poor with you; (for Yahweh will surely bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it;)

  • Deut 24:10-12
    3 verses
    75%

    10 When you do lend your neighbor any kind of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.

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

    12 If he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge;

  • Deut 15:6-13
    8 verses
    75%

    6 For Yahweh your God will bless you, as he promised you: and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.

    7 If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;

    8 but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need [in that] which he wants.

    9 Beware that there not be a base 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 cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

    10 You shall surely give him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him; because that for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work, and in all that you put your hand to.

    11 For the poor will never cease out of the land: therefore I command you, saying, You shall surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.

    12 If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, and serves you six years; then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.

    13 When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty:

  • Neh 5:10
    74%

    10 I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. Please let us stop this usury.

  • Ezek 18:8
    74%

    8 he who has not given forth on interest, neither has taken any increase, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man,

  • Lev 25:17
    74%

    17 You shall not wrong one another; but you shall fear your God: for I am Yahweh your God.

  • Lev 25:47
    74%

    47 "'If an alien or temporary resident with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him has grown poor, and sells himself to the stranger or foreigner living among you, or to a member of the stranger's family;

  • Ezek 18:13
    73%

    13 has given forth on 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 on him.

  • Deut 24:14
    73%

    14 You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he be of your brothers, or of your foreigners who are in your land within your gates:

  • Lev 25:43
    72%

    43 You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.

  • Lev 25:14
    72%

    14 "'If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.

  • Prov 22:26-27
    2 verses
    72%

    26 Don't you be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral for debts.

    27 If you don't have means to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?

  • Deut 22:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1 You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely bring them again to your brother.

    2 If your brother isn't near to you, or if you don't know him, then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you until your brother seek after it, and you shall restore it to him.

  • Lev 25:25
    71%

    25 "'If your brother becomes poor, and sells some of his possessions, then his kinsman who is next to him shall come, and redeem that which his brother has sold.

  • Ezek 18:17
    71%

    17 who has withdrawn his hand from the poor, who has not received interest nor increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.

  • Deut 14:27
    70%

    27 The Levite who is within your gates, you shall not forsake him; for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

  • Deut 24:6
    70%

    6 No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he takes [a man's] life to pledge.

  • Lev 19:33
    69%

    33 "'If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.

  • Deut 23:7
    69%

    7 You shall not abhor an Edomite; for he is your brother: you shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.

  • Ps 15:5
    69%

    5 he who doesn't lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be shaken. A Poem by David.

  • Job 22:6
    69%

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

  • Ezek 22:12
    69%

    12 In you have they taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, says the Lord Yahweh.

  • Deut 25:5
    69%

    5 If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.

  • Deut 22:4
    69%

    4 You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely help him to lift them up again.

  • Prov 28:8
    69%

    8 He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

  • Deut 12:19
    68%

    19 Take heed to yourself that you don't forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.

  • Zech 7:10
    68%

    10 Don't oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.'

  • Lev 19:17
    68%

    17 "'You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.