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- If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest.
- Now if your countryman becomes destitute and cannot support himself among you, then you are to help him as you would a foreigner or stranger, so that he can continue to live among you. …
- Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or any other type of loan.
- …who lends his money without interest and refuses a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.
- He who increases his wealth by interest and usury lays it up for one who is kind to the poor.
- Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and conflict in all the land. I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.
- He does not engage in usury or take excess interest, but he withholds his hand from iniquity and executes true justice between men.
- He engages in usury and takes excess interest. Will this son live? He will not! Since he has committed all these abominations, he will surely die; his blood will be on his own head.
- He withholds his hand from harming the poor and takes no interest or usury. He keeps My ordinances and follows My statutes. Such a man will not die for his father’s iniquity. He will surely live.
- In you they take bribes to shed blood. You engage in usury, take excess interest, and extort your neighbors. But Me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD.