Bible Dictionary: Usury: Forbidden

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Exodus 22:25
If you lend money to any of my people that is poor by you, you shall not be to him as an usurer, neither shall you lay on him usury.
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Leviticus 25:35-37
And if your brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with you; then you shall relieve him: yes, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with you.
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Deuteronomy 23:19
You shall not lend on usury to your brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent on usury:
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Psalm 15:5
He that puts not out his money to usury, nor takes reward against the innocent. He that does these things shall never be moved.
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Proverbs 28:8
He that by usury and unjust gain increases his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.
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Jeremiah 15:10
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 neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them does curse me.
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Ezekiel 18:8,13,17
He that has not given forth on usury, neither has taken any increase, that has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true judgment between man and man,
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Ezekiel 22:12
In you have they taken gifts to shed blood; you have taken usury and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten me, said the Lord GOD.
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Library

Excursus on Usury.
... lucrum ex mutuo exactum aut speratum;" [96] and then goes on to defend the proposition
that, "Usury is forbidden by natural, by divine, and by human law. ...
/.../schaff/the seven ecumenical councils/excursus on usury.htm

Whether it is a Sin to Take Usury for Money Lent?
... Reply to Objection 2: The Jews were forbidden to take usury from their brethren,
ie from other Jews. By this we are given to understand ...
//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether it is a sin.htm

Forasmuch as Many Enrolled among the Clergy, Following ...
... two species of usury, if we bear in mind the grounds on which the prohibition was
made, it will be manifest that every kind of usury is forbidden to clerics ...
/.../schaff/the seven ecumenical councils/canon xvii forasmuch as many.htm

What are the Sins Forbidden in the Eighth Commandment?
... Answer: The sins forbidden in the eighth commandment, besides the neglect of ... and
man, or in matters of trust; oppression, extortion, usury, bribery, vexatious ...
/.../anonymous/the westminster larger catechism/question 142 0 0 what are the.htm

The Passions are to be Subdued, and we must Abstain from Forbidden ...
... LXIV."The Passions are to Be Subdued, and We Must Abstain from Forbidden Things. ...
He will not give his money to usury, for that is to seek after gain from the ...
/.../lactantius/the divine institutes/chap lxiv the passions are to.htm

Letter iv. To the Bishops Appointed in Campania, Picenum, Etruria ...
... [36] The practice of usury and trading generally is often forbidden in the Canons,
&c., for the clergy, but its prohibition for the laity is much more unusual ...
/.../leo/writings of leo the great/letter iv to the bishops.htm

Whether it was Lawful to Divorce a Wife under the Mosaic Law?
... of prohibition: thus venial sins are said to be permitted because they are not
forbidden. ... Even so they were allowed to lend money for usury to strangers, on ...
//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether it was lawful to.htm

The Captions of the Arabic Canons Attributed to the Council of ...
... Canon LII. Usury and the base seeking of worldly gain is forbidden to the clergy,
also conversation and fellowship with Jews. Canon LIII. ...
/.../schaff/the seven ecumenical councils/the captions of the arabic.htm

Whether Men are Bound to Pay Tithes of all Things?
... Moreover the ministers of the New Law are more strictly forbidden to occupy ... unjust:
such, for instance, are things gotten by robbery, theft or usury: and these ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether men are bound to 3.htm

Whether one May Give Alms Out of Ill-Gotten Goods?
... But the profits from whoredom are filthy lucre; wherefore it was forbidden
(Dt.23:18 ... Give not alms from interest and usury: I speak to the faithful to whom ...
//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether one may give alms.htm

Subtopics

Usury

Usury or Interest: Illustrative of the Improvement of Talents Received from God

Usury or Interest: Judgments Denounced Against Those Who Exacted Unlawful

Usury or Interest: The Curse Attending the Giving or Receiving of Unlawful,

Usury or Interest: The Jews: Allowed to Take, from Strangers

Usury or Interest: The Jews: Forbidden to Take, from Brethren

Usury or Interest: The Jews: Forbidden to Take, from Brethren Specially when Poor

Usury or Interest: The Jews: Often Guilty of Taking

Usury or Interest: The Jews: Required to Restore

Usury or Interest: The Lending of Money or Other Property for Increase

Usury or Interest: Those Enriched by Unlawful, not Allowed to Enjoy Their Gain