Leviticus 25:36

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Do not take interest in advance or otherwise make a profit from them, but fear your God; let them live with you.

Cross References

Nehemiah 5:15

The former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens on the people and took food and wine from them, besides forty shekels of silver. Even their servants lorded it over the people. But I did not do so because of the fear of God.

Nehemiah 5:3

There were also those who said, “We are having to pledge our fields, our vineyards, and our houses in order to get grain during the famine.”

Psalm 15:5

who do not lend money at interest and do not take a bribe against the innocent. Those who do these things shall never be moved.

Exodus 22:24

my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children orphans.

Exodus 22:25

“If you lend money to my people, to the poor among you, you shall not deal with them as a creditor; you shall not exact interest from them.

Proverbs 28:8

One who augments wealth by exorbitant interest gathers it for another who is kind to the poor.

Isaiah 24:2

And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the male slave, so with his master; as with the female slave, 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 ever bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me.

Ezekiel 18:13

takes advance or accrued interest, shall he then live? He shall not. He has done all these abominable things; he shall surely be put to death; his blood shall be upon himself.

Ezekiel 18:17

withholds his hand from iniquity, takes no advance or accrued interest, observes my ordinances, and follows my statutes, he shall not die for his father’s iniquity; he shall surely live.

Ezekiel 18:8

does not take advance or accrued interest, withholds his hand from iniquity, executes true justice between contending parties,

Ezekiel 22:12

In you, they take bribes to shed blood; you take both advance interest and accrued interest and make gain of your neighbors by extortion, and you have forgotten me, says the Lord God.

Leviticus 25:17

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

Leviticus 25:37

You shall not lend them your money at interest taken in advance or provide them food at a profit.