What does the Bible say about usury?

17 verses about usury, ranked by the votes of OpenBible.info readers, with the King James text.

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Bible verses about usury

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. 4 votes
Leviticus 25:36 — Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee. 3 votes
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: 3 votes
Psalms 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. 3 votes
Proverbs 28:8 — He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor. 3 votes
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. 3 votes
Ezekiel 18:8 — He that hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgment between man and man, 3 votes
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. 3 votes
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. 3 votes
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. 3 votes
Matthew 25:27 — Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury. 3 votes
Leviticus 25:35 — And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee. 2 votes
Leviticus 25:37 — Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase. 2 votes
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. 2 votes
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. 2 votes
Proverbs 22:7 — The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. 2 votes
Luke 19:23 — Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury? 2 votes

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Ezekiel (4), Leviticus (3), Deuteronomy (2), Proverbs (2), Exodus (1), Nehemiah (1), Psalms (1), Jeremiah (1), Matthew (1), Luke (1)

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