Usury or Interest

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Leviticus 25:37 OT

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

• Psalms 28:8 OT

  Yahweh is their strength. He is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.

• Jeremiah 15:10 OT

  Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife, and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; yet every one of them curses me.

• Deuteronomy 23:19 OT

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

• Exodus 22:25 OT

  “If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor. You shall not charge him interest.

• Leviticus 25:35-37 OT

  “ ‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand can’t support himself among you, then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident. Take no interest from him or profit; but fear your God, that your…

• Nehemiah 5:6 OT

  I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.

• Nehemiah 5:7 OT

  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.

• Ezekiel 22:12 OT

  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.

• Nehemiah 5:9-13 OT

  Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies? I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. Please let us stop this…

• Deuteronomy 23:20 OT

  You may charge a foreigner interest; but you shall not your brother 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.

• Psalms 15:5 OT

  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.

• Ezekiel 18:8 OT

  he who hasn’t lent to them with interest, hasn’t taken any increase from them, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man,

• Ezekiel 18:9 OT

  has walked in my statutes, and has kept my ordinances, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live,” says the Lord Yahweh.

• Isaiah 24:1 OT

  Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants.

• Isaiah 24:2 OT

  It will 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 creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of…

• Ezekiel 18:13 OT

  has lent with interest, and has taken increase from the poor; shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations. He shall surely die. His blood will be on him.

• Matthew 25:27 NT

  You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest.

• Luke 19:23 NT

  Then why didn’t you deposit my money in the bank, and at my coming, I might have earned interest on it?’