Usury: Forbidden
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Exodus 22:25
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.
Leviticus 25:35–37
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 take any interest or profit from him, but fear your God, that your countryman may live among you. / You must not lend him your silver at interest or sell him your food for profit.
Deuteronomy 23:19
Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or any other type of loan.
Psalm 15:5
who lends his money without interest and refuses a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.
Proverbs 28:8
He who increases his wealth by interest and usury lays it up for one who is kind to the poor.
Jeremiah 15:10
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.
Ezekiel 18:8, 13, 17
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.
Ezekiel 22:12
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.