Leviticus 25:36
Don't make them pay you any interest or demand more than they borrowed, but respect your God so that they can remain living in your area.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.
In Context
37Don't lend them silver with interest or sell them food at an inflated price.
Cross References
Exodus 22:24I will become angry, and I will kill you with the sword. Your wives will become widows and your children will be fatherless.
Leviticus 25:17Don't exploit one another, but have respect for your God, because I am the Lord your God.
Nehemiah 5:3Others added, “We've had to mortgage our fields, our vineyards, and our homes to buy food during the famine.”
Nehemiah 5:15But the governors before me had placed a heavy burden on the people, taking forty shekels of silver from them as well as food and wine. Their assistants also extorted the people. But because of my respect for God I didn't act like that.
Proverbs 28:8Anyone who gets rich through charging interest and profiteering is only storing it up for someone who is kind to the poor.
Ezekiel 18:13He lends with interest and makes a profit from loans. Is someone like this going to live? No, he won't! Because he has done all these offensive things, he will die for certain, and he will be responsible for his own death.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 25:24-39
23 The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me. 24 And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land. 25 If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold. 26 And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it; 27 Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto… Read the whole commentary →