Bible Verses About Usury: Forbidden

`If thou dost lend My poor people with thee money, thou art not to him as a usurer; thou dost not lay on him usury;

`And when thy brother is become poor, and his hand hath failed with thee, then thou hast kept hold on him, sojourner and settler, and he hath lived with thee;

thou takest no usury from him, or increase; and thou hast been afraid of thy God; and thy brother hath lived with thee;

thy money thou givest not to him in usury, and for increase thou givest not thy food;

`Thou dost not lend in usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of food, usury of anything which is lent on usury.

His silver he hath not given in usury, And a bribe against the innocent Hath not taken; Whoso is doing these is not moved to the age!

Whoso is multiplying his wealth by biting and usury, For one favouring the poor doth gather it.

Woe to me, my mother, For thou hast borne me a man of strife, And a man of contention to all the land, I have not lent on usury, Nor have they lent on usury to me--All of them are reviling me.

In usury he doth not give, and increase taketh not, From perversity he turneth back his hand, True judgment he doth between man and man.

In usury he hath given, and increase taken, And he liveth: he doth not live, All these abominations he hath done, He doth surely die, his blood is on him.

From the afflicted he hath turned back his hand, Usury and increase he hath not taken, My judgments he hath done, In My statutes he hath walked, He doth not die for the iniquity of his father, He doth surely live.

A bribe they have taken in thee to shed blood, Usury and increase thou hast taken, And cuttest off thy neighbour by oppression, And Me thou hast forgotten, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!