Luke 19:23
Greek Text— Luke 19:23Then why didn’t you deposit my money in the bank, and at my coming, I might have earned interest on it?’
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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.
You shall not lend on interest to your brother: interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on interest.
he who hasn’t lent to them with interest, hasn’t taken any increase from them, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man,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.
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 increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.
who has withdrawn his hand from the poor, who hasn’t received interest or increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of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.
“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.
Of a foreigner you may require it; but whatever of yours is with your brother, your hand shall release.
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.”
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.
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.
You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest.