Exodus 22:25

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

`If thou dost lend My poor people with thee money, thou art not to him as a usurer; thou dost not lay on him usury;

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  • Lev 25:35-37 : 35 `And when thy brother is become poor, and his hand hath failed with thee, then thou hast kept hold on him, sojourner and settler, and he hath lived with thee; 36 thou takest no usury from him, or increase; and thou hast been afraid of thy God; and thy brother hath lived with thee; 37 thy money thou givest not to him in usury, and for increase thou givest not thy food;
  • Ps 15:5 : 5 His silver he hath not given in usury, And a bribe against the innocent Hath not taken; Whoso is doing these is not moved to the age!
  • Deut 23:19-20 : 19 `Thou dost not lend in usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of food, usury of anything which is lent on usury. 20 To a stranger thou mayest lend in usury, and to thy brother thou dost not lend in usury, so that Jehovah thy God doth bless thee in every putting forth of thy hand on the land whither thou goest in to possess it.
  • Ezek 18:8 : 8 In usury he doth not give, and increase taketh not, From perversity he turneth back his hand, True judgment he doth between man and man.
  • Prov 28:8 : 8 Whoso is multiplying his wealth by biting and usury, For one favouring the poor doth gather it.
  • Neh 5:7 : 7 and my heart reigneth over me, and I strive with the freemen, and with the prefects, and say to them, `Usury one upon another ye are exacting;' and I set against them a great assembly,
  • Ezek 18:17 : 17 From the afflicted he hath turned back his hand, Usury and increase he hath not taken, My judgments he hath done, In My statutes he hath walked, He doth not die for the iniquity of his father, He doth surely live.
  • Ezek 22:12 : 12 A bribe they have taken in thee to shed blood, Usury and increase thou hast taken, And cuttest off thy neighbour by oppression, And Me thou hast forgotten, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!
  • Matt 25:27 : 27 it behoved thee then to put my money to the money-lenders, and having come I had received mine own with increase.
  • Luke 19:23 : 23 and wherefore didst thou not give my money to the bank, and I, having come, with interest might have received it?
  • Ezek 18:13 : 13 In usury he hath given, and increase taken, And he liveth: he doth not live, All these abominations he hath done, He doth surely die, his blood is on him.
  • Neh 5:10-11 : 10 And also, I, my brethren, and my servants, are exacting of them silver and corn; let us leave off, I pray you, this usury. 11 Give back, I pray you, to them, as to-day, their fields, their vineyards, their olive-yards, and their houses, and the hundredth `part' of the money, and of the corn, of the new wine, and of the oil, that ye are exacting of them.'
  • Jer 15:10 : 10 Wo to me, my mother, For thou hast borne me a man of strife, And a man of contention to all the land, I have not lent on usury, Nor have they lent on usury to me -- All of them are reviling me.
  • 2 Kgs 4:1 : 1 And a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets hath cried unto Elisha, saying, `Thy servant, my husband, is dead, and thou hast known that thy servant was fearing Jehovah, and the lender hath come to take my two children to him for servants.'
  • 2 Kgs 4:7 : 7 And she cometh and declareth to the man of God, and he saith, `Go, sell the oil, and repay thy loan; and thou `and' thy sons do live of the rest.'
  • Neh 5:2-5 : 2 yea, there are who are saying, `Our sons, and our daughters, we -- are many, and we receive corn, and eat, and live.' 3 And there are who are saying, `Our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses, we are pledging, and we receive corn for the famine.' 4 And there are who are saying, `We have borrowed money for the tribute of the king, `on' our fields, and our vineyards; 5 and now, as the flesh of our brethren `is' our flesh, as their sons `are' our sons, and lo, we are subduing our sons and our daughters for servants, and there are of our daughters subdued, and our hand hath no might, and our fields and our vineyards `are' to others.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 25:35-37
    3 verses
    87%

    35`And when thy brother is become poor, and his hand hath failed with thee, then thou hast kept hold on him, sojourner and settler, and he hath lived with thee;

    36thou takest no usury from him, or increase; and thou hast been afraid of thy God; and thy brother hath lived with thee;

    37thy money thou givest not to him in usury, and for increase thou givest not thy food;

  • Deut 23:19-20
    2 verses
    86%

    19`Thou dost not lend in usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of food, usury of anything which is lent on usury.

    20To a stranger thou mayest lend in usury, and to thy brother thou dost not lend in usury, so that Jehovah thy God doth bless thee in every putting forth of thy hand on the land whither thou goest in to possess it.

  • Deut 24:10-15
    6 verses
    81%

    10`When thou liftest up on thy brother a debt of anything, thou dost not go in unto his house to obtain his pledge;

    11at the outside thou dost stand, and the man on whom thou art lifting `it' up is bringing out unto thee the pledge at the outside.

    12`And if he is a poor man, thou dost not lie down with his pledge;

    13thou dost certainly give back to him the pledge at the going in of the sun, and he hath lain down in his own raiment, and hath blessed thee; and to thee it is righteousness before Jehovah thy God.

    14`Thou dost not oppress a hireling, poor and needy, of thy brethren or of thy sojourner who is in thy land within thy gates;

    15in his day thou dost give his hire, and the sun doth not go in upon it, for he `is' poor, and unto it he is lifting up his soul, and he doth not cry against thee unto Jehovah, and it hath been in thee -- sin.

  • Exod 22:26
    80%

    26if thou dost at all take in pledge the garment of thy neighbour, during the going in of the sun thou dost return it to him:

  • Neh 5:10
    79%

    10And also, I, my brethren, and my servants, are exacting of them silver and corn; let us leave off, I pray you, this usury.

  • Ezek 18:7-8
    2 verses
    78%

    7A man -- he doth not oppress, His pledge to the debtor he doth return, Plunder he doth not take away, His bread to the hungry he doth give, And the naked doth cover with a garment,

    8In usury he doth not give, and increase taketh not, From perversity he turneth back his hand, True judgment he doth between man and man.

  • Deut 15:6-11
    6 verses
    77%

    6for Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee as He hath spoken to thee; and thou hast lent `to' many nations, and thou hast not borrowed; and thou hast ruled over many nations, and over thee they do not rule.

    7`When there is with thee any needy one of one of thy brethren, in one of thy cities, in thy land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, thou dost not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy needy brother;

    8for thou dost certainly open thy hand to him, and dost certainly lend him sufficient for his lack which he lacketh.

    9`Take heed to thee lest there be a word in thy heart -- worthless, saying, Near `is' the seventh year, the year of release; and thine eye is evil against thy needy brother, and thou dost not give to him, and he hath called concerning thee unto Jehovah, and it hath been in thee sin;

    10thou dost certainly give to him, and thy heart is not sad in thy giving to him, for because of this thing doth Jehovah thy God bless thee in all thy works, and in every putting forth of thy hand;

    11because the needy one doth not cease out of the land, therefore I am commanding thee, saying, Thou dost certainly open thy hand to thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy one, in thy land.

  • Prov 22:26-27
    2 verses
    77%

    26Be not thou among those striking hands, Among sureties `for' burdens.

    27If thou hast nothing to pay, Why doth he take thy bed from under thee?

  • Deut 24:17
    77%

    17`Thou dost not turn aside the judgment of a fatherless sojourner, nor take in pledge the garment of a widow;

  • Exod 23:6
    77%

    6`Thou dost not turn aside the judgment of thy needy one in his strife;

  • Ps 15:5
    76%

    5His silver he hath not given in usury, And a bribe against the innocent Hath not taken; Whoso is doing these is not moved to the age!

  • Lev 25:14
    76%

    14`And when thou sellest anything to thy fellow, or buyest from the hand of thy fellow, ye do not oppress one another;

  • Prov 19:17
    75%

    17Whoso is lending `to' Jehovah is favouring the poor, And his deed He repayeth to him.

  • Isa 24:2
    75%

    2And it hath been -- as a people so a priest, As the servant so his master, As the maid-servant so her mistress, As the buyer so the seller, As the lender so the borrower, As the usurer so he who is lifting `it' on himself.

  • Lev 25:39
    75%

    39`And when thy brother becometh poor with thee, and he hath been sold to thee, thou dost not lay on him servile service;

  • Prov 22:7
    75%

    7The rich over the poor ruleth, And a servant `is' the borrower to the lender.

  • Exod 22:24
    75%

    24and Mine anger hath burned, and I have slain you by the sword, and your wives have been widows, and your sons orphans.

  • Deut 15:2-3
    2 verses
    75%

    2and this `is' the matter of the release: Every owner of a loan `is' to release his hand which he doth lift up against his neighbour, he doth not exact of his neighbour and of his brother, but hath proclaimed a release to Jehovah;

    3of the stranger thou mayest exact, and that which is thine with thy brother doth thy hand release;

  • Ezek 18:13
    74%

    13In usury he hath given, and increase taken, And he liveth: he doth not live, All these abominations he hath done, He doth surely die, his blood is on him.

  • Lev 19:15
    74%

    15`Ye do not do perversity in judgment; thou dost not lift up the face of the poor, nor honour the face of the great; in righteousness thou dost judge thy fellow.

  • Ezek 22:12
    74%

    12A bribe they have taken in thee to shed blood, Usury and increase thou hast taken, And cuttest off thy neighbour by oppression, And Me thou hast forgotten, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!

  • Prov 28:8
    74%

    8Whoso is multiplying his wealth by biting and usury, For one favouring the poor doth gather it.

  • Exod 22:14
    74%

    14`And when a man doth ask `anything' from his neighbour, and it hath been hurt or hath died -- its owner not being with it -- he doth certainly repay;

  • Deut 24:6
    74%

    6`None doth take in pledge millstones, and rider, for life it `is' he is taking in pledge.

  • Lev 25:17
    73%

    17and ye do not oppress one another, and thou hast been afraid of thy God; for I `am' Jehovah your God.

  • Exod 23:3
    73%

    3and a poor man thou dost not honour in his strife.

  • Lev 25:43
    73%

    43thou rulest not over him with rigour, and thou hast been afraid of thy God.

  • Ps 37:21
    73%

    21The wicked is borrowing and repayeth not, And the righteous is gracious and giving.

  • Prov 22:22
    73%

    22Rob not the poor because he `is' poor, And bruise not the afflicted in the gate.

  • Matt 5:42
    73%

    42to him who is asking of thee be giving, and him who is willing to borrow from thee thou mayest not turn away.

  • Ezek 18:17
    73%

    17From the afflicted he hath turned back his hand, Usury and increase he hath not taken, My judgments he hath done, In My statutes he hath walked, He doth not die for the iniquity of his father, He doth surely live.

  • Job 22:6
    73%

    6For thou takest a pledge of thy brother for nought, And the garments of the naked Thou dost strip off.

  • Exod 22:22
    72%

    22`Any widow or orphan ye do not afflict;

  • Deut 28:12
    72%

    12`Jehovah doth open to thee his good treasure -- the heavens -- to give the rain of thy land in its season, and to bless all the work of thy hand, and thou hast lent to many nations, and thou -- thou dost not borrow.