Deuteronomy 23:19

“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor. You shall not charge him interest.

You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

he who hasn’t lent to them with interest, hasn’t taken any increase from them, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man,

Take no interest from him or profit; but fear your God, that your brother may live among you.

‘Cursed is he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more; but the righteous stand firm forever.

then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet, and doesn’t heed the warning, if the sword comes, and takes him away, his blood will be on his own head.

His sons didn’t walk in his ways, but turned away after dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.

Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, “You exact usury, everyone of his brother.” I held a great assembly against them.

he who doesn’t lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be shaken.

He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

“Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because you have forgotten me, and cast me behind your back, therefore you also bear your lewdness and your prostitution.’ ”

Ephraim has bitterly provoked anger. Therefore his blood will be left on him, and his Lord will repay his contempt.

and said, “What are you willing to give me, that I should deliver him to you?” They weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver.

If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

“ ‘For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother. His blood shall be upon himself.

For on the day you go out and pass over the brook Kidron, know for certain that you will surely die. Your blood will be on your own head.”

I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

Blessed are those who keep justice. Blessed is one who does what is right at all times.

They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt,

For he will never be shaken. The righteous will be remembered forever.

A man shall not be established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.

He who walks righteously and speaks blamelessly, he who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil—

“Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number.

When I tell the wicked, ‘You will surely die;’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; that wicked man will die in his iniquity; but I will require his blood at your hand.

You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled its streets with the slain.

who has withdrawn his hand from the poor, who hasn’t received interest or increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father. He shall surely live.

Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he will save his soul alive.

Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

“ ‘A man or a woman that is a medium or is a wizard shall surely be put to death. They shall be stoned with stones. Their blood shall be upon themselves.’ ”

Of a foreigner you may require it; but whatever of yours is with your brother, your hand shall release.

Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful, and have forgotten God who gave you birth.

Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves.”

Then she came and told the man of God. He said, “Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt; and you and your sons live on the rest.”

Elisha said to him, “Go, tell him, ‘You will surely recover;’ however Yahweh has shown me that he will surely die.”

I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. Please let us stop this usury.

He says in his heart, “I shall not be shaken. For generations I shall have no trouble.”

As for me, I said in my prosperity, “I shall never be moved.”

“If you will return, Israel,” says Yahweh, “if you will return to me, and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight; then you will not be removed;

Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife, and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; yet every one of them curses me.

has lent with interest, and has taken increase from the poor; shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations. He shall surely die. His blood will be on him.

The soul who sins, he shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.

“But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, should he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done will be remembered. In his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die.

Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live. He shall not die.

For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Therefore turn yourselves, and live!

In you have they taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,” says the Lord Yahweh.

I will visit on her the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense, when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me,” says Yahweh.

Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!”

They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.”

Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest.

The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

Then why didn’t you deposit my money in the bank, and at my coming, I might have earned interest on it?’

When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!”

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.

not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;