Usury or Interest
Usury or Interest
The lending of money or other property for increase - Le 25:37
Those enriched by unlawful, not allowed to enjoy their gain - Pr 28:8
The curse attending the giving or receiving of unlawful, alluded to - Jer 15:10
THE JEWS
- Forbidden to take, from brethren
- De 23:19 - Forbidden to take, from brethren specially when poor
- Ex 22:25; Le 25:35-37 - Often guilty of taking
- Ne 5:6,7; Eze 22:12 - Required to restore
- Ne 5:9-13 - Allowed to take, from strangers
- De 23:20
True and faithful Israelites never took, from their brethren - Ps 15:5; Eze 18:8,9
Judgments denounced against those who exacted unlawful - Isa 24:1,2; Eze 18:13
Illustrative of the improvement of talents received from God - Mt 25:27; Lu 19:23
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