What Does the Bible Say About Interest Payments?

Proverbs 22:7 ESV / 9 helpful votes

The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.

Proverbs 28:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Whoever multiplies his wealth by interest and profit gathers it for him who is generous to the poor.

Deuteronomy 23:19-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“You shall not charge interest on loans to your brother, interest on money, interest on food, interest on anything that is lent for interest. You may charge a foreigner interest, but you may not charge your brother interest, that the Lord your God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.

1 Timothy 6:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.

Romans 13:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

Matthew 25:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest.

Proverbs 17:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

One who lacks sense gives a pledge and puts up security in the presence of his neighbor.

Isaiah 5:1-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Let me sing for my beloved my love song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and he looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes. And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard. What more was there to do for my vineyard, that I have not done in it? When I looked for it to yield grapes, why did it yield wild grapes? And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down. ...

Psalm 15:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Who does not put out his money at interest and does not take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.

Deuteronomy 28:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The Lord will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. And you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.

Numbers 1:1-54 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, “Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel, by clans, by fathers' houses, according to the number of names, every male, head by head. From twenty years old and upward, all in Israel who are able to go to war, you and Aaron shall list them, company by company. And there shall be with you a man from each tribe, each man being the head of the house of his fathers. And these are the names of the men who shall assist you. From Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur; ...

Leviticus 25:1-55 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying, “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land that I give you, the land shall keep a Sabbath to the Lord. For six years you shall sow your field, and for six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its fruits, but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard. You shall not reap what grows of itself in your harvest, or gather the grapes of your undressed vine. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land. ...

2 Corinthians 9:10 ESV / 1 helpful vote

He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.

13 Bible Verses about Interest Payments

Proverbs 22:7 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Proverbs 28:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 23:19-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Timothy 6:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 13:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 25:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 17:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Isaiah 5:1-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 15:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 28:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Numbers 1:1-54 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Leviticus 25:1-55 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 9:10 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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13 Bible Verses about Interest Payments

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Proverbs 22:7 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Proverbs 28:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 23:19-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Timothy 6:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 13:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 25:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 17:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Isaiah 5:1-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 15:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 28:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Numbers 1:1-54 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Leviticus 25:1-55 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 9:10 ESV / 1 helpful vote