Usury or Interest

The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.

• Exodus 22:25Torrey THE JEWS — Forbidden to take, from brethren specially when poor

  ¶ 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.

• Leviticus 25:35–37Torrey THE JEWS — Forbidden to take, from brethren specially when poor

  ¶ And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee. Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live…

• Leviticus 25:37Torrey The lending of money or other property for increase

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

• Deuteronomy 23:19Torrey THE JEWS — Forbidden to take, from brethren

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

• Deuteronomy 23:20Torrey THE JEWS — Allowed to take, from strangers

  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.

• Nehemiah 5:6Torrey THE JEWS — Often guilty of taking

  ¶ And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.

• Nehemiah 5:7Torrey THE JEWS — Often guilty of taking

  Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them.

• Nehemiah 5:9–13Torrey THE JEWS — Required to restore

  Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies? I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this…

• Psalms 15:5Torrey True and faithful Israelites never took, from their brethren

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

• Proverbs 28:8Torrey Those enriched by unlawful, not allowed to enjoy their gain

  He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.

• Isaiah 24:1Torrey Judgments denounced against those who exacted unlawful

  Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

• Isaiah 24:2Torrey Judgments denounced against those who exacted unlawful

  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…