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Exodus 21:2If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free without paying anything.Exodus 21:3If he arrived alone, he is to leave alone; if he arrived with a wife, she is to leave with him.Exodus 21:4If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free.Exodus 21:5But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children; I do not want to go free,’Exodus 21:6then his master is to bring him before the judges. And he shall take him to the door or doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he shall serve his master for life.Exodus 22:25If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest.Exodus 22:26If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset,Exodus 22:27because his cloak is the only covering he has for his body. What else will he sleep in? And if he cries out to Me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.Leviticus 25:14If you make a sale to your neighbor or a purchase from him, you must not take advantage of each other.Leviticus 25:15You are to buy from your neighbor according to the number of years since the last Jubilee; he is to sell to you according to the number of harvest years remaining.Leviticus 25:16You shall increase the price in proportion to a greater number of years, or decrease it in proportion to a lesser number of years; for he is selling you a given number of harvests.Leviticus 25:17Do not take advantage of each other, but fear your God; for I am the LORD your God.Leviticus 25:35Now if your countryman becomes destitute and cannot support himself among you, then you are to help him as you would a foreigner or stranger, so that he can continue to live among you.Leviticus 25:36Do not take any interest or profit from him, but fear your God, that your countryman may live among you.Leviticus 25:37You must not lend him your silver at interest or sell him your food for profit.Deuteronomy 15:2This is the manner of remission: Every creditor shall cancel what he has loaned to his neighbor. He is not to collect anything from his neighbor or brother, because the LORD’s time of release has been proclaimed.Deuteronomy 15:3You may collect something from a foreigner, but you must forgive whatever your brother owes you.Deuteronomy 23:19Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or any other type of loan.Deuteronomy 23:20You may charge a foreigner interest, but not your brother, so that the LORD your God may bless you in everything to which you put your hand in the land that you are entering to possess.Deuteronomy 24:6Do not take a pair of millstones or even an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that would be taking one’s livelihood as security.Deuteronomy 24:10When you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security.Deuteronomy 24:11You are to stand outside while the man to whom you are lending brings the security out to you.Deuteronomy 24:12If he is a poor man, you must not go to sleep with the security in your possession;Deuteronomy 24:13be sure to return it to him by sunset, so that he may sleep in his own cloak and bless you, and this will be credited to you as righteousness before the LORD your God.Deuteronomy 24:17Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.2 Kings 4:1Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD. And now his creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves!”Nehemiah 5:1About that time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews.Nehemiah 5:2Some were saying, “We and our sons and daughters are numerous. We must get grain in order to eat and stay alive.”Nehemiah 5:3Others were saying, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our homes to get grain during the famine.”Nehemiah 5:4Still others were saying, “We have borrowed money to pay the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards.Nehemiah 5:5We 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 to redeem them because our fields and vineyards belong to others.”Nehemiah 5:6When I heard their outcry and these complaints, I became extremely angry,Nehemiah 5:7and after serious thought I rebuked the nobles and officials, saying, “You are exacting usury from your own brothers!” So I called a large assembly against themNehemiah 5:8and said, “We have done our best to buy back our Jewish brothers who were sold to foreigners, but now you are selling your own brothers, that they may be sold back to us!” But they remained silent, for they could find nothing to say.Nehemiah 5:9So I continued, “What you are doing is not right. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God to avoid the reproach of our foreign enemies?Nehemiah 5:10I, as well as my brothers and my servants, have been lending the people money and grain. Please, let us stop this usury.Nehemiah 5:11Please restore to them immediately their fields, vineyards, olive groves, and houses, along with the percentage of the money, grain, new wine, and oil that you have been assessing them.”Nehemiah 5:12“We will restore it,” they replied, “and will require nothing more from them. We will do as you say.” So I summoned the priests and required of the nobles and officials an oath that they would do what they had promised.Nehemiah 5:13I also shook out the folds of my robe and said, “May God likewise shake out of his house and possessions every man who does not keep this promise. May such a man be shaken out and have nothing!” The whole assembly said, “Amen,” and they praised the LORD. And the people did as they had promised.Job 20:18He must return the fruit of his labor without consuming it; he cannot enjoy the profits of his trading.Job 20:19For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build.Job 20:20Because his appetite is never satisfied, he cannot escape with his treasure.Job 22:6For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing.Job 24:3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.Job 24:9The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.Psalm 112:5It is well with the man who is generous and lends freely, whose affairs are guided by justice.Proverbs 22:26Do not be one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts.Proverbs 22:27If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?Matthew 5:25Reconcile quickly with your adversary, while you are still on the way to court. Otherwise, he may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and you may be thrown into prison.Matthew 5:26Truly I tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny.Matthew 5:42Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.Matthew 18:23Because of this, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants.Matthew 18:24As he began the settlements, a debtor owing ten thousand talents was brought to him.Matthew 18:25Since the man was unable to pay, the master ordered that he be sold to pay his debt, along with his wife and children and everything he owned.Matthew 18:26Then the servant fell on his knees before him. ‘Have patience with me,’ he begged, ‘and I will pay back everything.’Matthew 18:27His master had compassion on him, forgave his debt, and released him.Matthew 18:28But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii. He grabbed him and began to choke him, saying, ‘Pay back what you owe me!’Matthew 18:29So his fellow servant fell down and begged him, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you back.’Matthew 18:30But he refused. Instead, he went and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay his debt.Matthew 18:31When his fellow servants saw what had happened, they were greatly distressed, and they went and recounted all of this to their master.
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