money lending

²⁵If you lend money to the poor of my people who live among you, you shall not coerce them like a collector, nor oppress them with usury.

⁷The rich rule over the poor. And the borrower is servant to the lender.

¹⁹You shall not lend money, or grain, or anything else at all, to your brother at interest,

³⁴And if you will loan to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is due to you? For even sinners lend to sinners, in order to receive the same in return. ³⁵So truly, love your enemies. Do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return. And then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he himself is kind to the ungrateful and to the wicked.

²¹The sinner will lend and not release, but the just one shows compassion and donates.

³⁵If your brother has become impoverished, or infirm of hand, and you take him in, like a newcomer or a sojourner, and he lives with you, ³⁶do not accept usury from him, nor anything more than what you gave. Fear your God, so that your brother may be able to live with you. ³⁷You shall not give him your money by usury, nor exact from him an overabundance of produce.

⁸You should owe nothing to anyone, except so as to love one another. For whoever loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

⁵He who has not given his money in usury, nor accepted bribes against the innocent. He who does these things will be undisturbed for eternity.

⁴²Whoever asks of you, give to him. And if anyone would borrow from you, do not turn away from him.

¹⁷Whoever is merciful to the poor lends to the Lord. And he will repay him for his efforts.

¹⁹You shall not lend money, or grain, or anything else at all, to your brother at interest, ²⁰but only to a foreigner. For you shall lend to your brother whatever he needs without interest, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all your works in the land, which you shall enter so as to possess it.

²⁴No one is able to serve two masters. For either he will have hatred for the one, and love the other, or he will persevere with the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.

³⁸Give, and it will be given to you: a good measure, pressed down and shaken together and overflowing, they will place upon your lap. Certainly, the same measure that you use to measure out, will be used to measure back to you again.”

⁸Whoever piles up riches by usury and profit gathers them for him who will give freely to the poor.

¹⁰For desire is the root of all evils. Some persons, hungering in this way, have strayed from the faith and have entangled themselves in many sorrows.