'Interest' in the Bible

Your duty then was to deposit my money in some bank, and so when I came I should have got back my property with interest.

He also said to them, "Take care what you hear. With what measure you measure, it will be measured to you, and that with interest.

why then did you not put my money into a bank, that when I came I might have received it back with interest?

You do not reflect that it is to your interest that one man should die for the people rather than the whole nation perish."

(It was this Caiaphas who had advised the Jews, saying, "It is to your interest that one man should die for the People.")

Thus much I say in your own interest; not to lay a trap for you, but to help towards what is becoming, and enable you to wait on the Lord without distraction.

Is God simply thinking about the oxen? Or is it really in our interest that He speaks? Of course, it was written in our interest, because it is His will that when a plough-man ploughs, and a thresher threshes, it should be in the hope of sharing that which comes as the result.

But thanks be to God that He inspires the heart of Titus with the same deep interest in you;

I mean the truth that the Gentiles are joint heirs with us Jews, and that they form one body with us, and have the same interest as we have in the promise which has been made good in Christ Jesus through the Good News,

For I can bear witness to the deep interest he takes in you and in the brethren at Laodicea and in those at Hierapolis.