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Usury – interest rate – What does God say about lending money on interest rate?
- December 7, 2016
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Leviticus 25:36
Take no usury or interest from him; but fear your God, that your brother may live with you.
The word usury also means interest rate
Leviticus 25:37
You shall not lend him your money for usury, nor lend him your food at a profit.
Nehemiah 5:7
After serious thought, I rebuked the nobles and rulers, and said to them, “Each of you is exacting usury from his brother.” So I called a great assembly against them.
Nehemiah 5:10
I also, with my brethren and my servants, am lending them money and grain. Please, let us stop this usury!
Psalm 15:5
He who does not put out his money at usury, Nor does he take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.
Proverbs 28:8
One who increases his possessions by usury and extortion Gathers it for him who will pity the poor.
Ezekiel 18:8
If he has not exacted usury Nor taken any increase, But has withdrawn his hand from iniquity And executed true judgment between man and man;
Ezekiel 18:13
If he has exacted usury Or taken increase— Shall he then live? He shall not live! If he has done any of these abominations, He shall surely die; His blood shall be upon him.
Ezekiel 18:17
Who has withdrawn his hand from the poor And not received usury or increase, But has executed My judgments And walked in My statutes— He shall not die for the iniquity of his father; He shall surely live!
Ezekiel 22:12
In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take usury and increase; you have made profit from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten Me,” says the Lord God.