Leviticus 25:36

Modern English Version

Take no usury or interest from him; but fear your God, so that your brother may live with you.

Cross References

Nehemiah 5:15

The former governors preceding me had extracted a heavy burden on the people, because they took from them food and wine, besides forty shekels of silver. Moreover, even their servants domineered over the people. But I myself never did so, because of the fear of God.

Nehemiah 5:3

Others were saying, “We have mortgaged our fields, vineyards, and houses so that we might acquire grain because of hunger.”

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.

Exodus 22:24

And My anger will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives will become widows, and your children fatherless.

Exodus 22:25

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.

Proverbs 28:8

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

Isaiah 24:2

It shall be: as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the creditor, so with the debtor.

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 18:8

if he has not lent at interest, nor has taken any increase, but has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man;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

Leviticus 25:17

You shall not therefore oppress one another, but you shall fear your God, for I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 25:37

You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor lend him your food for profit.