Bible Encyclopedia: Money Lending

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On the Fast of the Tenth Month, vi.
... that loves money, and wishes to multiply his wealth by immoderate profits, should
rather practise this holy usury and grow rich by such money-lending, in order ...
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Whether it is Lawful to Ask for any Other Kind of Consideration ...
... Else if he wishes the gratuitous use of that thing in addition to repayment, it
is the same as if he took money for lending, and that is usury, unless perhaps ...
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Whether it is a Sin to Take Usury for Money Lent?
... said of Himself (Lk.19:23): "At My coming I might have exacted it," ie the money
lent, "with usury." Therefore it is not a sin to take usury for lending money. ...
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Whether it is Lawful to Borrow Money under a Condition of Usury?
... usury gives the usurer an occasion, not for taking usury, but for lending; it is ...
Reply to Objection 3: If one were to entrust one's money to a usurer lacking ...
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Jews.
... Cromwell, seeing the benefit which the Netherlands had derived from this money-making
and money-lending community, was very desirous to recall them to England ...
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Psalm LV.
... For he that in his house doth any evil thing, however for his evil thing doth blush:
"In the streets thereof usury and deceit." Money-lending [2028] even hath ...
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Excursus on Usury.
... is supported by the language of the council of Orleans (ad538), which appears to
imply that deacons were not prohibited from lending money at interest, "Et ...
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Forasmuch as Many Enrolled among the Clergy, Following ...
... covetousness and lust of gain, have forgotten the divine Scripture, which says,
"He hath not given his money upon usury," and in lending money ask the ...
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Awake! Awake!
... And you who think there is anything to be got by lending your money at usury will
not be content with lending what you have, but you will be extorting and ...
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On the Third Part of the Psalm.
... it were to give thee for that small sum a great villa, worth incomparably more money
than thou ... Hear what possession He to whom thou hast been lending bestows. ...
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Topical Bible Verses

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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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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Proverbs 22:7
The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
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Proverbs 19:17
He that has pity on the poor lends to the LORD; and that which he has given will he pay him again.
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Subtopics

Money Changers: General Scriptures Concerning

Money Lending