Bible Verses About Usury: Forbidden

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 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.

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.