Proverbs 28:8
He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.
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Proverbs 28:8
He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.
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Job 27:16
Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;
Job 27:17
he may prepare it, but the just will put it on, and the innocent will divide the silver.
Proverbs 13:22
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.
Ecclesiastes 2:26
For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
Esther 8:1
On that day, King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the Jews’ enemy, to Esther the queen. Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was to her.
Psalms 39:6
“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.
Ecclesiastes 2:18
I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.
Ecclesiastes 2:19
Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 2:21
For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, with knowledge, and with skillfulness; yet he shall leave it for his portion to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.
Ecclesiastes 5:14
Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.
Luke 12:20
“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’
Luke 19:24
He said to those who stood by, ‘Take the mina away from him and give it to him who has the ten minas.’
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Psalms 15:5
he who doesn’t lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be shaken.
Ezekiel 18:8
he who hasn’t lent to them with interest, hasn’t taken any increase from them, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man,
Ezekiel 18:13
has lent with interest, and has taken increase from the poor, shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations. He shall surely die. His blood will be on him.
Ezekiel 18:17
who has withdrawn his hand from the poor, who hasn’t received interest or increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father. He shall surely live.
Ezekiel 22:12
In you have they taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,” says the Lord Yahweh.
Jeremiah 15:10
Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife, and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; yet every one of them curses me.
2 Samuel 12:6
He must restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing and because he had no pity!”
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Leviticus 25:35
“ ‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand can’t support himself among you, then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident.
Leviticus 25:36
Take no interest from him or profit; but fear your God, that your brother may live among you.
Leviticus 25:37
You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.
Exodus 22:25
“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor. You shall not charge him interest.
Nehemiah 5:7
Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, “You exact usury, everyone of his brother.” I held a great assembly against them.
Nehemiah 5:8
I said to them, “We, after our ability, have redeemed our brothers the Jews that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us?” Then they held their peace, and found not a word to say.
Nehemiah 5:9
Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the nations, our enemies?
Nehemiah 5:10
I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. Please let us stop this usury.
Nehemiah 5:11
Please restore to them, even today, their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that you are charging them.”
Deuteronomy 23:19
You shall not lend on interest to your brother: interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on interest.
Deuteronomy 23:20
You may charge a foreigner interest; but you shall not charge your brother interest, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it.
Nehemiah 5:2
For there were some who said, “We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live.”
Nehemiah 5:3
There were also some who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine.”
Nehemiah 5:4
There were also some who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral.
Nehemiah 5:5
Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold, we bring our sons and our daughters into bondage to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. It is also not in our power to help it, because other men have our fields and our vineyards.”
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Proverbs 19:17
He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.
Proverbs 14:21
He who despises his neighbor sins, but he who has pity on the poor is blessed.
Proverbs 14:31
He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.
Proverbs 21:13
Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.
Proverbs 22:9
He who has a generous eye will be blessed, for he shares his food with the poor.
Proverbs 28:3
A needy man who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.
Proverbs 28:11
The rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the poor who has understanding sees through him.
Proverbs 28:27
One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.
Ecclesiastes 11:1
Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.
Isaiah 58:7
Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?
2 Corinthians 9:9
As it is written, “He has scattered abroad. He has given to the poor. His righteousness remains forever.”
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Jeremiah 17:11
As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool.
Proverbs 22:16
Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.
Ezekiel 22:13
“ ‘ “Behold, therefore I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at the blood which has been shed within you.
James 5:4
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
Proverbs 10:2
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 16:8
Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.
Proverbs 21:6
Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.
Jeremiah 22:13
“Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and doesn’t give him his hire;
Proverbs 20:21
An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning won’t be blessed in the end.
Habakkuk 2:6
Won’t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’
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