Exodus 22:25

Modern English Version

If you lend money to any of My people who is poor among you, do not be to him a usurer, and do not lay upon him usury.

Cross References

2 Kings 4:1

Now one of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord, but a creditor has come to take my two sons as slaves.”

2 Kings 4:7

Then she went and told the man of God. And he said, “Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt, and you and your children can live on the rest.”

Nehemiah 5:7

So I contemplated about this for myself and, as a result, I rebuked the nobles and officials and said to them, “Based on the claim of each against his brother, you are exacting usury.” Then I convened a great assembly against them,

Psalm 15:5

he who does not put his money out to usury, nor takes a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be moved.

Proverbs 28:8

He who increases his wealth by usury and extortion gathers it for him who has pity on the poor.

Jeremiah 15:10

Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me as a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent with usury, nor have men lent to me on usury, yet every one of them curses me!

Ezekiel 18:13

has lent at interest, and has taken increase, shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations. He shall surely die. His blood shall be upon his own head.

Ezekiel 18:17

he keeps his hand from the poor, has not received usury nor increase, has executed My judgments, and has walked in My statutes. He shall not die for the iniquity of his father; he shall surely live.

Ezekiel 18:7

and he has not oppressed anyone, but has restored to the debtor his pledge; has devastated no one by violence, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

Ezekiel 18:8

if he has not lent at interest, nor has taken any increase, but has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man;

Ezekiel 22:12

In you they have taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken usury and increase, and you have injured your neighbors for gain by extortion, and you have forgotten Me, says the Lord God.

Amos 2:8

They recline by every altar on garments taken in pledge, and in the house of their gods they drink the wine from those who have been fined.

Matthew 25:27

Then you ought to have given my money to the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest.

Luke 19:23

Why then did you not deposit my money in the bank, so that at my coming I might have collected it with interest?’

Deuteronomy 15:7

If there be among you a poor man, one of your brothers within any of your gates in your land which the Lord your God has given you, you must not harden your heart or shut your hand from your poor brother.

Deuteronomy 24:13

In any case, you must return the pledge to him when the sun goes down, so that he may sleep in his own cloak and bless you, and it will be righteousness to you before the Lord your God.