Bible Verses about “charging interest”
The Bible contains 15 verses about charging interest across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.”
“¶ The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower [is] servant to the lender.”
“‹But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and› [to] ‹the evil.›”
“‹Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.›”
“‹And if ye lend› [to them] ‹of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.›”
“‹Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and› [then] ‹at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.›”
“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.”
“¶ 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.”
“Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.”
“Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.”
“Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:”
“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.”
“¶ He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.”
“[He that] putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these [things] shall never be moved.”
“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.”