Quotes about Usury
and after serious thought I rebuked the nobles and officials, saying, “You are exacting usury from your own brothers!” So I called a large assembly against them
- Nehemiah 5:7
I, as well as my brothers and my servants, have been lending the people money and grain. Please, let us stop this usury.
- Nehemiah 5:10
He who increases his wealth by interest and usury lays it up for one who is kind to the poor.
- Proverbs 28:8
He does not engage in usury or take excess interest, but he withholds his hand from iniquity and executes true justice between men.
- Ezekiel 18:8
He engages in usury and takes excess interest. Will this son live? He will not! Since he has committed all these abominations, he will surely die; his blood will be on his own head.
- Ezekiel 18:13
He withholds his hand from harming the poor and takes no interest or usury. He keeps My ordinances and follows My statutes. Such a man will not die for his father’s iniquity. He will surely live.
- Ezekiel 18:17
In you they take bribes to shed blood. You engage in usury, take excess interest, and extort your neighbors. But Me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD.
- Ezekiel 22:12
Who lends his money without usury and does not accept a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.
- Psalm 15:5
Thrift of time will repay you in afterlife, with a usury of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams; waste of it will make you dwindle, alike in intellectual and moral stature, beyond your darkest reckoning.
- William Gladstone