Deuteronomy 15:7 “If anyone is poor among your fellow Israelites in any of the towns of the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not be hardhearted or tightfisted toward them.”
Deuteronomy 15:8 “Rather, be openhanded and freely lend them whatever they need.”
Deuteronomy 23:19 “Do not charge a fellow Israelite interest, whether on money or food or anything else that may earn interest.”
Deuteronomy 23:20 “You may charge a foreigner interest, but not a fellow Israelite, so that the Lord your God may bless you in everything you put your hand to in the land you are entering to possess.”
Exodus 22:25 “If you lend money to one of my people among you who is needy, do not treat it like a business deal; charge no interest.”
Exodus 22:26 “If you take your neighbor’s cloak as a pledge, return it by sunset,”
Exodus 22:27 “because that cloak is the only covering your neighbor has. What else can they sleep in? When they cry out to me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.”
Ezekiel 18:8 “He does not lend to them at interest or take a profit from them. He withholds his hand from doing wrong and judges fairly between two parties.”
Ezekiel 18:13 “He lends at interest and takes a profit. Will such a man live? He will not! Because he has done all these detestable things, he is to be put to death; his blood will be on his own head.”
Ezekiel 18:17 “He withholds his hand from mistreating the poor and takes no interest or profit from them. He keeps my laws and follows my decrees. He will not die for his father’s sin; he will surely live.”
Ezekiel 22:12 “In you are people who accept bribes to shed blood; you take interest and make a profit from the poor. You extort unjust gain from your neighbors. And you have forgotten me, declares the Sovereign Lord.”
Isaiah 24:2 “It will be the same
for priest as for people,
for the master as for his servant,
for the mistress as for her servant,
for seller as for buyer,
for borrower as for lender,
for debtor as for creditor.”
Jeremiah 15:10 “Alas, my mother, that you gave me birth, a man with whom the whole land strives and contends! I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.”
Leviticus 25:35 “If any of your fellow Israelites become poor and are unable to support themselves among you, help them as you would a foreigner and stranger, so they can continue to live among you.”
Leviticus 25:36“Do not take interest or any profit from them, but fear your God, so that they may continue to live among you.”
Leviticus 25:37 “You must not lend them money at interest or sell them food at a profit.”
Luke 6:34 “And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, expecting to be repaid in full.”
Luke 6:35 “But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.”
Luke 6:38 “Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”
Matthew 5:42 “Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.”
Matthew 6:24 “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”
Matthew 25:27 “Well then, you should have put my money on deposit with the bankers, so that when I returned I would have received it back with interest.”
Nehemiah 5:7 “I pondered them in my mind and then accused the nobles and officials. I told them, “You are charging your own people interest!” So I called together a large meeting to deal with them”
Proverbs 22:7 “The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.”
Proverbs 28:8 “Whoever increases wealth by taking interest or profit from the poor amasses it for another, who will be kind to the poor.”
Psalm 15:5 “Who lends money to the poor without interest; who does not accept a bribe against the innocent. Whoever does these things will never be shaken.”
Psalm 37:21 “The wicked borrow and do not repay, but the righteous give generously;”
Psalm 112:5 “Good will come to those who are generous and lend freely, who conduct their affairs with justice.”
Romans 13:8 “Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.”