Exodus 22:25 ESV / 2,248 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be like a moneylender to him, and you shall not exact interest from him.

Psalm 15:5 ESV / 1,793 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Who does not put out his money at interest and does not take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.

Proverbs 28:8 ESV / 1,654 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Whoever multiplies his wealth by interest and profit gathers it for him who is generous to the poor.

Ezekiel 18:13 ESV / 1,612 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Lends at interest, and takes profit; shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon himself.

Deuteronomy 23:19 ESV / 1,522 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “You shall not charge interest on loans to your brother, interest on money, interest on food, interest on anything that is lent for interest.

Ezekiel 22:12 ESV / 1,480 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take interest and profit and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; but me you have forgotten, declares the Lord God.

Leviticus 25:36 ESV / 1,443 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God, that your brother may live beside you.

Deuteronomy 23:19-20 ESV / 1,440 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “You shall not charge interest on loans to your brother, interest on money, interest on food, interest on anything that is lent for interest. You may charge a foreigner interest, but you may not charge your brother interest, that the Lord your God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.

Jeremiah 15:10 ESV / 1,394 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Woe is me, my mother, that you bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me.

Ezekiel 18:8 ESV / 1,391 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Does not lend at interest or take any profit, withholds his hand from injustice, executes true justice between man and man,

Matthew 25:27 ESV / 1,370 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest.

Ezekiel 18:17 ESV / 1,358 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Withholds his hand from iniquity, takes no interest or profit, obeys my rules, and walks in my statutes; he shall not die for his father's iniquity; he shall surely live.

Leviticus 25:37 ESV / 1,242 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

Deuteronomy 23:20 ESV / 1,172 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful You may charge a foreigner interest, but you may not charge your brother interest, that the Lord your God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.

Nehemiah 5:7 ESV / 1,083 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful I took counsel with myself, and I brought charges against the nobles and the officials. I said to them, “You are exacting interest, each from his brother.” And I held a great assembly against them

Leviticus 25:35-37 ESV / 1,076 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you. Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God, that your brother may live beside you. You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

Proverbs 22:7 ESV / 894 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.

Luke 19:23 ESV / 889 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Why then did you not put my money in the bank, and at my coming I might have collected it with interest?’

Isaiah 24:2 ESV / 744 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the slave, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the creditor, so with the debtor.

Nehemiah 5:10 ESV / 708 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Moreover, I and my brothers and my servants are lending them money and grain. Let us abandon this exacting of interest.

Luke 6:35 ESV / 659 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.

Nehemiah 5:1-13 ESV / 578 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Now there arose a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brothers. For there were those who said, “With our sons and our daughters, we are many. So let us get grain, that we may eat and keep alive.” There were also those who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses to get grain because of the famine.” And there were those who said, “We have borrowed money for the king's tax on our fields and our vineyards. Now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.” ...

Leviticus 25:36-37 ESV / 559 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God, that your brother may live beside you. You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

Psalm 15:1-5 ESV / 537 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful A Psalm of David. O Lord, who shall sojourn in your tent? Who shall dwell on your holy hill? He who walks blamelessly and does what is right and speaks truth in his heart; who does not slander with his tongue and does no evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his friend; in whose eyes a vile person is despised, but who honors those who fear the Lord; who swears to his own hurt and does not change; who does not put out his money at interest and does not take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.

Psalm 37:21 ESV / 491 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful The wicked borrows but does not pay back, but the righteous is generous and gives;

Matthew 5:42 ESV / 452 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.

Psalm 112:5 ESV / 435 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful It is well with the man who deals generously and lends; who conducts his affairs with justice.

Proverbs 19:17 ESV / 405 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.

Exodus 22:25-27 ESV / 385 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be like a moneylender to him, and you shall not exact interest from him. If ever you take your neighbor's cloak in pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down, for that is his only covering, and it is his cloak for his body; in what else shall he sleep? And if he cries to me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.

Deuteronomy 15:7-11 ESV / 351 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother, but you shall open your hand to him and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be. Take care lest there be an unworthy thought in your heart and you say, ‘The seventh year, the year of release is near,’ and your eye look grudgingly on your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he cry to the Lord against you, and you be guilty of sin. You shall give to him freely, and your heart shall not be grudging when you give to him, because for this the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake. For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’

Psalm 112:5-6 ESV / 350 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful It is well with the man who deals generously and lends; who conducts his affairs with justice. For the righteous will never be moved; he will be remembered forever.

Matthew 25:1-46 ESV / 327 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept. ...

Ezekiel 22:1-31 ESV / 321 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, “And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then declare to her all her abominations. You shall say, Thus says the Lord God: A city that sheds blood in her midst, so that her time may come, and that makes idols to defile herself! You have become guilty by the blood that you have shed, and defiled by the idols that you have made, and you have brought your days near, the appointed time of your years has come. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all the countries. Those who are near and those who are far from you will mock you; your name is defiled; you are full of tumult. ...

Luke 19:1-48 ESV / 313 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful He entered Jericho and was passing through. And there was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector and was rich. And he was seeking to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was small of stature. So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was about to pass that way. And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for I must stay at your house today.” ...

Nehemiah 10:31 ESV / 298 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And if the peoples of the land bring in goods or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or on a holy day. And we will forego the crops of the seventh year and the exaction of every debt.

Isaiah 50:1 ESV / 292 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Thus says the Lord: “Where is your mother's certificate of divorce, with which I sent her away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.

Deuteronomy 23:1-25 ESV / 289 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “No one whose testicles are crushed or whose male organ is cut off shall enter the assembly of the Lord. “No one born of a forbidden union may enter the assembly of the Lord. Even to the tenth generation, none of his descendants may enter the assembly of the Lord. “No Ammonite or Moabite may enter the assembly of the Lord. Even to the tenth generation, none of them may enter the assembly of the Lord forever, because they did not meet you with bread and with water on the way, when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you. But the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam; instead the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loved you. ...

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 281 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

Habakkuk 2:7 ESV / 281 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Will not your debtors suddenly arise, and those awake who will make you tremble? Then you will be spoil for them.

Leviticus 25:35-38 ESV / 277 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you. Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God, that your brother may live beside you. You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.

Proverbs 22:26-27 ESV / 272 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Be not one of those who give pledges, who put up security for debts. If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?

Matthew 6:12 ESV / 258 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

Nehemiah 5:10-11 ESV / 256 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Moreover, I and my brothers and my servants are lending them money and grain. Let us abandon this exacting of interest. Return to them this very day their fields, their vineyards, their olive orchards, and their houses, and the percentage of money, grain, wine, and oil that you have been exacting from them.”

1 Timothy 6:9 ESV / 255 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

Ezekiel 18:7-8 ESV / 255 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Does not oppress anyone, but restores to the debtor his pledge, commits no robbery, gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment, does not lend at interest or take any profit, withholds his hand from injustice, executes true justice between man and man,

Luke 19:20-23 ESV / 253 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Then another came, saying, ‘Lord, here is your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief; for I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man. You take what you did not deposit, and reap what you did not sow.’ He said to him, ‘I will condemn you with your own words, you wicked servant! You knew that I was a severe man, taking what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow? Why then did you not put my money in the bank, and at my coming I might have collected it with interest?’

Psalm 37:26 ESV / 246 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful He is ever lending generously, and his children become a blessing.

Proverbs 17:18 ESV / 243 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful One who lacks sense gives a pledge and puts up security in the presence of his neighbor.

Luke 6:38 ESV / 241 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”

Ezekiel 18:7-9 ESV / 240 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Does not oppress anyone, but restores to the debtor his pledge, commits no robbery, gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment, does not lend at interest or take any profit, withholds his hand from injustice, executes true justice between man and man, walks in my statutes, and keeps my rules by acting faithfully—he is righteous; he shall surely live, declares the Lord God.

Deuteronomy 28:12 ESV / 237 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful The Lord will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. And you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.

Leviticus 25:1-55 ESV / 237 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful The Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying, “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land that I give you, the land shall keep a Sabbath to the Lord. For six years you shall sow your field, and for six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its fruits, but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard. You shall not reap what grows of itself in your harvest, or gather the grapes of your undressed vine. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land. ...

Deuteronomy 8:18 ESV / 234 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful You shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.

Matthew 18:23-35 ESV / 232 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his servants. When he began to settle, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. And since he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made. So the servant fell on his knees, imploring him, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you everything.’ And out of pity for him, the master of that servant released him and forgave him the debt. ...

Nehemiah 5:11 ESV / 225 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Return to them this very day their fields, their vineyards, their olive orchards, and their houses, and the percentage of money, grain, wine, and oil that you have been exacting from them.”

Proverbs 11:15 ESV / 221 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Whoever puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer harm, but he who hates striking hands in pledge is secure.

Deuteronomy 23:19-25 ESV / 219 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “You shall not charge interest on loans to your brother, interest on money, interest on food, interest on anything that is lent for interest. You may charge a foreigner interest, but you may not charge your brother interest, that the Lord your God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land that you are entering to take possession of it. “If you make a vow to the Lord your God, you shall not delay fulfilling it, for the Lord your God will surely require it of you, and you will be guilty of sin. But if you refrain from vowing, you will not be guilty of sin. You shall be careful to do what has passed your lips, for you have voluntarily vowed to the Lord your God what you have promised with your mouth. ...

Exodus 22:24 ESV / 216 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.

Proverbs 6:1-2 ESV / 212 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger, if you are snared in the words of your mouth, caught in the words of your mouth,

Isaiah 24:1-2 ESV / 209 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Behold, the Lord will empty the earth and make it desolate, and he will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants. And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the slave, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the creditor, so with the debtor.

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 207 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. ...

Luke 4:16-21 ESV / 194 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read. And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.” And he rolled up the scroll and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him. ...

Deuteronomy 15:7-8 ESV / 193 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother, but you shall open your hand to him and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be.

Matthew 25:27-30 ESV / 192 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest. So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents. For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

Luke 4:1-44 ESV / 191 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry. The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.” And Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone.’” And the devil took him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time, ...

Luke 6:34 ESV / 190 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And if you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to get back the same amount.

Leviticus 25:35 ESV / 178 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you.

Leviticus 25:35-36 ESV / 178 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you. Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God, that your brother may live beside you.

Leviticus 25:44-46 ESV / 177 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are around you. You may also buy from among the strangers who sojourn with you and their clans that are with you, who have been born in your land, and they may be your property. You may bequeath them to your sons after you to inherit as a possession forever. You may make slaves of them, but over your brothers the people of Israel you shall not rule, one over another ruthlessly.

Deuteronomy 15:2 ESV / 176 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release what he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not exact it of his neighbor, his brother, because the Lord's release has been proclaimed.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 173 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Ezekiel 18:8-9 ESV / 173 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Does not lend at interest or take any profit, withholds his hand from injustice, executes true justice between man and man, walks in my statutes, and keeps my rules by acting faithfully—he is righteous; he shall surely live, declares the Lord God.

Proverbs 13:22 ESV / 173 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the sinner's wealth is laid up for the righteous.

Deuteronomy 15:1-7 ESV / 171 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “At the end of every seven years you shall grant a release. And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release what he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not exact it of his neighbor, his brother, because the Lord's release has been proclaimed. Of a foreigner you may exact it, but whatever of yours is with your brother your hand shall release. But there will be no poor among you; for the Lord will bless you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance to possess— if only you will strictly obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all this commandment that I command you today. ...

Luke 6:34-35 ESV / 169 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And if you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to get back the same amount. But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 166 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Deuteronomy 23:21 ESV / 164 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “If you make a vow to the Lord your God, you shall not delay fulfilling it, for the Lord your God will surely require it of you, and you will be guilty of sin.

Ezekiel 25:17 ESV / 163 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes. Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I lay my vengeance upon them.”

Nehemiah 5:2 ESV / 163 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For there were those who said, “With our sons and our daughters, we are many. So let us get grain, that we may eat and keep alive.”

Proverbs 1:1-33 ESV / 153 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: To know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight, to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity; to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth— Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance, ...

1 Timothy 6:17-19 ESV / 148 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy. They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share, thus storing up treasure for themselves as a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life.

1 Timothy 6:10 ESV / 148 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 148 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

Ezekiel 18:4 ESV / 146 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Behold, all souls are mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins shall die.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 143 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

Nehemiah 5:9-13 ESV / 141 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful So I said, “The thing that you are doing is not good. Ought you not to walk in the fear of our God to prevent the taunts of the nations our enemies? Moreover, I and my brothers and my servants are lending them money and grain. Let us abandon this exacting of interest. Return to them this very day their fields, their vineyards, their olive orchards, and their houses, and the percentage of money, grain, wine, and oil that you have been exacting from them.” Then they said, “We will restore these and require nothing from them. We will do as you say.” And I called the priests and made them swear to do as they had promised. I also shook out the fold of my garment and said, “So may God shake out every man from his house and from his labor who does not keep this promise. So may he be shaken out and emptied.” And all the assembly said “Amen” and praised the Lord. And the people did as they had promised.

Nehemiah 5:6-7 ESV / 141 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful I was very angry when I heard their outcry and these words. I took counsel with myself, and I brought charges against the nobles and the officials. I said to them, “You are exacting interest, each from his brother.” And I held a great assembly against them

Ecclesiastes 2:26 ESV / 140 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Psalm 28:8 ESV / 137 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful The Lord is the strength of his people; he is the saving refuge of his anointed.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 135 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Leviticus 25:39-41 ESV / 123 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “If your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave: he shall be with you as a hired servant and as a sojourner. He shall serve with you until the year of the jubilee. Then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his own clan and return to the possession of his fathers.

Romans 13:8 ESV / 122 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

Proverbs 21:20 ESV / 121 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful Precious treasure and oil are in a wise man's dwelling, but a foolish man devours it.

Matthew 21:12-13 ESV / 119 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers.”

1 Samuel 2:7 ESV / 115 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful The Lord makes poor and makes rich; he brings low and he exalts.

Matthew 5:17 ESV / 107 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.

Ezekiel 18:1-32 ESV / 104 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful The word of the Lord came to me: “What do you mean by repeating this proverb concerning the land of Israel, ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge’? As I live, declares the Lord God, this proverb shall no more be used by you in Israel. Behold, all souls are mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins shall die. “If a man is righteous and does what is just and right— ...

Philippians 4:19 ESV / 100 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Deuteronomy 15:1 ESV / 90 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful “At the end of every seven years you shall grant a release.