Usury or Interest
15 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
11 sections
- Illustrative of the Improvement of Talents Received from God
- Judgments Denounced Against Those Who Exacted Unlawful
- The Curse Attending the Giving or Receiving of Unlawful,
- The Jews: Allowed to Take, from Strangers
- The Jews: Forbidden to Take, from Brethren
- The Jews: Forbidden to Take, from Brethren Specially when Poor
- The Jews: Often Guilty of Taking
- The Jews: Required to Restore
- The Lending of Money or Other Property for Increase
- Those Enriched by Unlawful, not Allowed to Enjoy Their Gain
- True and Faithful Israelites Never Took, from Their Brethren
Illustrative of the Improvement of Talents Received from God
- Matthew 25:27 Then you should have deposited my money with the bankers, and on my return I would have received it back with interest.
- Luke 19:23 Why then did you not deposit my money in the bank, and upon my return I could have collected it with interest?’
Judgments Denounced Against Those Who Exacted Unlawful
- Isaiah 24:1–2 Behold, the LORD lays waste the earth and leaves it in ruins. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants— …
- Ezekiel 18:13 He engages in usury and takes excess interest. Will this son live? He will not! Since he has committed all these abominations, he will surely die; his blood will be on his own head.
The Curse Attending the Giving or Receiving of Unlawful,
- Jeremiah 15:10 Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and conflict in all the land. I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.
The Jews: Allowed to Take, from Strangers
- Deuteronomy 23:20 You may charge a foreigner interest, but not your brother, so that the LORD your God may bless you in everything to which you put your hand in the land that you are entering to possess.
The Jews: Forbidden to Take, from Brethren
- Deuteronomy 23:19 Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or any other type of loan.
The Jews: Forbidden to Take, from Brethren Specially when Poor
- Exodus 22:25 If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest.
- Leviticus 25:35–37 Now if your countryman becomes destitute and cannot support himself among you, then you are to help him as you would a foreigner or stranger, so that he can continue to live among you. …
The Jews: Often Guilty of Taking
- Nehemiah 5:6–7 When I heard their outcry and these complaints, I became extremely angry, …
- Ezekiel 22:12 In you they take bribes to shed blood. You engage in usury, take excess interest, and extort your neighbors. But Me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD.
The Jews: Required to Restore
- Nehemiah 5:9–13 So I continued, “What you are doing is not right. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God to avoid the reproach of our foreign enemies? …
The Lending of Money or Other Property for Increase
- Leviticus 25:37 You must not lend him your silver at interest or sell him your food for profit.
Those Enriched by Unlawful, not Allowed to Enjoy Their Gain
- Proverbs 28:8 He who increases his wealth by interest and usury lays it up for one who is kind to the poor.
True and Faithful Israelites Never Took, from Their Brethren
- Psalm 15:5 who lends his money without interest and refuses a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.
- Ezekiel 18:8–9 He does not engage in usury or take excess interest, but he withholds his hand from iniquity and executes true justice between men. …
Related topics
UsuryInterestLendingCreditorBorrowingCovetousness in Exacting Usury from Their Brethren
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.