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Exodus 22:25
“ If you lend silver to my people, to the poor person among you, you must not be like a creditor to him; you must not charge him interest.
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Ezekiel 22:12
People who live in you accept bribes in order to shed blood. You take interest and profit on a loan and brutally extort your neighbors. You have forgotten me. This is the declaration of the Lord GOD.
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Ezekiel 18:8
He doesn’t lend at interest or for profit but keeps his hand from injustice and carries out true justice between men.
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Deuteronomy 16:19
Do not deny justice or show partiality to anyone. Do not accept a bribe, for it blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.
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John 13:17
If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.
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Deuteronomy 23:19-20
“ Do not charge your brother interest on silver, food, or anything that can earn interest.You may charge a foreigner interest, but you must not charge your brother Israelite interest, so that the LORD your God may bless you in everything you do in the land you are entering to possess.
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2 Peter 1 10-2 Peter 1 11
Therefore, brothers and sisters, make every effort to confirm your calling and election, because if you do these things you will never stumble.For in this way, entry into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be richly provided for you.
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Psalms 106:3
How happy are those who uphold justice, who practice righteousness at all times.
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Psalms 112:6
He will never be shaken. The righteous one will be remembered forever.
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Psalms 55:22
Cast your burden on the LORD, and he will sustain you; he will never allow the righteous to be shaken.
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Matthew 26:15
and said,“ What are you willing to give me if I hand him over to you?” So they weighed out thirty pieces of silver for him.
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Proverbs 12:3
No one can be made secure by wickedness, but the root of the righteous is immovable.
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Exodus 23:7-8
Stay far away from a false accusation. Do not kill the innocent and the just, because I will not justify the guilty.You must not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and corrupts the words of the righteous.
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Leviticus 25:35-37
“ If your brother becomes destitute and cannot sustain himself among you, you are to support him as an alien or temporary resident, so that he can continue to live among you.Do not profit or take interest from him, but fear your God and let your brother live among you.You are not to lend him your silver with interest or sell him your food for profit.
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James 1:22-25
But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.Because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like someone looking at his own face in a mirror.For he looks at himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of person he was.But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer who works— this person will be blessed in what he does.
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Micah 7:3
Both hands are good at accomplishing evil: the official and the judge demand a bribe; when the powerful man communicates his evil desire, they plot it together.
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Nehemiah 5:2-5
Some were saying,“ We, our sons, and our daughters are numerous. Let us get grain so that we can eat and live.”Others were saying,“ We are mortgaging our fields, vineyards, and homes to get grain during the famine.”Still others were saying,“ We have borrowed money to pay the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards.We and our children are just like our countrymen and their children, yet we are subjecting our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters are already enslaved, but we are powerless because our fields and vineyards belong to others.”
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Isaiah 33:15
The one who lives righteously and speaks rightly, who refuses profit from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears from listening to murderous plots and shuts his eyes against evil schemes—
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Ezekiel 18:27
But if a wicked person turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will preserve his life.
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Ezekiel 18:17
He keeps his hand from harming the poor, not taking interest or profit on a loan. He practices my ordinances and follows my statutes. Such a person will not die for his father’s iniquity. He will certainly live.
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Nehemiah 5:7-13
After seriously considering the matter, I accused the nobles and officials, saying to them,“ Each of you is charging his countrymen interest.” So I called a large assembly against themand said,“ We have done our best to buy back our Jewish countrymen who were sold to foreigners, but now you sell your own countrymen, and we have to buy them back.” They remained silent and could not say a word.Then I said,“ What you are doing isn’t right. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God and not invite the reproach of our foreign enemies?Even I, as well as my brothers and my servants, have been lending them money and grain. Please, let’s stop charging this interest.Return their fields, vineyards, olive groves, and houses to them immediately, along with the percentage of the money, grain, new wine, and fresh oil that you have been assessing them.”They responded,“ We will return these things and require nothing more from them. We will do as you say.” So I summoned the priests and made everyone take an oath to do this.I also shook the folds of my robe and said,“ May God likewise shake from his house and property everyone who doesn’t keep this promise. May he be shaken out and have nothing!” The whole assembly said,“ Amen,” and they praised the LORD. Then the people did as they had promised.
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Psalms 16:8
I always let the LORD guide me. Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
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Matthew 7:21-25
“ Not everyone who says to me,‘ Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.On that day many will say to me,‘ Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, drive out demons in your name, and do many miracles in your name?’Then I will announce to them,‘ I never knew you. Depart from me, you lawbreakers!’“ Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.The rain fell, the rivers rose, and the winds blew and pounded that house. Yet it didn’t collapse, because its foundation was on the rock.
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Matthew 27:3-5
Then Judas, his betrayer, seeing that Jesus had been condemned, was full of remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders.“ I have sinned by betraying innocent blood,” he said.“ What’s that to us?” they said.“ See to it yourself!”So he threw the silver into the temple and departed. Then he went and hanged himself.
