Deuteronomy 15:1-2 At the end of every seven-year period
you shall have a relaxation of debts, which shall be observed
as follows. Every creditor shall relax his claim on what he
has loaned his neighbor; he must not press his neighbor, his
kinsman, because a relaxation in honor of the LORD has been
proclaimed.
Deuteronomy 23:19 - "Thou shalt not
lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of
victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon
usury."
Deuteronomy 23:20 - "Unto a stranger
thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt
not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in
all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou
goest to possess it."
Exodus 22:25 - "If thou lend money to any of my
people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an
usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him
usury."
Ezekiel 18:8 - "He that hath not
given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase, that
hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true
judgment between man and man."
Ezekiel 18:13 - "Hath given forth
upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he
shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall
surely die; his blood shall be upon
him."
Ezekiel 18:17 - "That hath taken off
his hand from the poor, that hath not received usury nor
increase, hath executed my judgments, hath walked in my
statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he
shall surely live."
Ezekiel 22:12 - "In thee have they
taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase,
and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion,
and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord
GOD."
Isaiah 24:2 - "And 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 taker of usury, so with the
giver of usury to him."
Jeremiah 15:10 - "Woe is me, my
mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of
contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury,
nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth
curse me."
Leviticus 25:36 - "Take thou no usury
of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may
live with thee."
Leviticus 25:37 - "Thou shalt not
give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for
increase."
Nehemiah 5:7 - "Then I consulted with
myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said
unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set
a great assembly against them."
Nehemiah 5:10 - "I likewise, and my
brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn:
I pray you, let us leave off this
usury."
Psalm 15:5 - "He that putteth not out
his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He
that doeth these things shall never be
moved."
Proverbs 28:8 - "He that by usury and
unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for
him that will pity the poor."