Bible Verses About Usury or Interest

"If you loan money to one of my people who is poor, you are not to deal with him as would a creditor; and you are not to charge him interest.

"'If a member of your people has become poor, so that he can't support himself among you, you are to assist him as you would a foreigner or a temporary resident, so that he can continue living with you.

Do not charge him interest or otherwise profit from him, but fear your God, so that your brother can continue living with you.

Do not take interest when you loan him money or take a profit when you sell him food.

"You are not to lend at interest to your brother, no matter whether the loan is of money, food or anything else that can earn interest

To an outsider you may lend at interest, but to your brother you are not to lend at interest, so that ADONAI your God will prosper you in everything you set out to do in the land you are entering in order to take possession of it.

When I heard their outcry and the reasons for it, I became very angry.

I thought the matter over and then took issue with the nobles and rulers. I charged them, "You are lending against pledges, everyone to his brother"; and I summoned a great assembly to deal with them.

I also said, "What you are doing is not good! You should be living in fear of our God, so that our pagan enemies won't have grounds for deriding us.

Moreover, my brothers and my servants, I too have loaned them money and grain. Please, let's stop making it so burdensome to go into debt.

Please! Today! Give them back their fields, vineyards, olive groves and homes; also the hundred pieces of silver and the grain, wine and olive oil you demand from them as interest."

They answered, "We will give it back. We will require nothing from them. Yes, we will do it, just as you say."Then I called the cohanim and took an oath from them that they would do as they had promised.

Shaking out the fold in my garment, I said, "May God thus shake every man from his house and from his work who fails to live up to this promise - may he be shaken out like this and made empty." The whole assembly said, "Amen!" and praised ADONAI; and the people did as they had promised.

who refuse usury when they lend money and refuse a bribe to damage the innocent. Those who do these things never will be moved.

He who increases his wealth by charging exorbitant interest amasses it for someone who will bestow it on the poor.

Look! ADONAI is stripping and destroying the land, turning it upside down and scattering its inhabitants

cohen and commoner, slave and master, maid and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debtor.

Woe to me, mother, that you gave me birth, a man who is the object of strife and controversy throughout the land! I neither lend nor borrow, yet all of them curse me.

he neither demands nor accepts interest on a loan; he refrains from what is evil; and he judges honestly between one person and another.

In short, he lives according to my laws and observes my rulings, so as to act faithfully. Such a person is righteous, and he will certainly live," says Adonai ELOHIM.

demands and accepts interest. Should he live? He will not live, because he has engaged in all these disgusting practices - he must be put to death; his blood is on him.

In you, people take bribes to shed blood; you demand and accept interest on loans; in greed you make profits off your neighbors by extorting them; and you have forgotten me,' says Adonai ELOHIM.

Then you should have deposited my money with the bankers, so that when I returned, I would at least have gotten back interest with my capital!

Then why didn’t you put my money in the bank? Then, when I returned, I would have gotten it back with interest!’