Bible Verses About Interest

Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.

Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.

Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?

So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.

If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.

Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, 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 taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.

He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.

I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.

If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:

But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.

There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.

In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God.

But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:

Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.

He that hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgment between man and man,

Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:

The Lord shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.

There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.

Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;

Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.

Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.

The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.

He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.

An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents.

When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?

There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.

Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.

And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much.

Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.

Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.