So I have also dedicated him to the Lord; as long as he lives he is dedicated to the Lord.” And he worshiped the Lord there.

Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me
As a man of strife and a man of contention to all the land!
I have not lent, nor have men lent money to me,
Yet everyone curses me.

Do not take usurious interest from him, but revere your God, that your countryman may live with you.

“When you make your neighbor a loan of any sort, you shall not enter his house to take his pledge.

Then Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife and say, “May the Lord give you children from this woman in place of the one she dedicated to the Lord.” And they went to their own home.

One who is gracious to a poor man lends to the Lord,
And He will repay him for his good deed.

And likewise I, my brothers and my servants are lending them money and grain. Please, let us leave off this usury.

Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew; and he ate and drank, and rose and went on his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright.

This is the manner of remission: every creditor shall release what he has loaned to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother, because the Lord’s remission has been proclaimed.

and the Lord had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have their request. Thus they plundered the Egyptians.

For the Lord your God will bless you as He has promised you, and you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow; and you will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you.

If you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners in order to receive back the same amount.

Or who has first given to Him that it might be paid back to him again?

But food will not commend us to God; we are neither the worse if we do not eat, nor the better if we do eat.

But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face

Cursed be the day when I was born;
Let the day not be blessed when my mother bore me!

“You shall not charge interest to your countrymen: interest on money, food, or anything that may be loaned at interest.

When the sun goes down you shall surely return the pledge to him, that he may sleep in his cloak and bless you; and it will be righteousness for you before the Lord your God.

You shall not give him your silver at interest, nor your food for gain.

“Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard and put a wall around it and dug a wine press in it, and built a tower, and rented it out to vine-growers and went on a journey.

“For you have taken pledges of your brothers without cause,
And stripped men naked.

Give to him who asks of you, and do not turn away from him who wants to borrow from you.

“For it is just like a man about to go on a journey, who called his own slaves and entrusted his possessions to them.

“If you lend money to My people, to the poor among you, you are not to act as a creditor to him; you shall not charge him interest.

Then you ought to have put my money in the bank, and on my arrival I would have received my money back with interest.

for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And He ate nothing during those days, and when they had ended, He became hungry.

He does not put out his money at interest,
Nor does he take a bribe against the innocent.
He who does these things will never be shaken.

The Lord will open for you His good storehouse, the heavens, to give rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hand; and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.

Afterward Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.

But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire compassion, and not sacrifice,’ for I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

And the lord of that slave felt compassion and released him and forgave him the debt.

They will fight against you, but they will not overcome you, for I am with you to deliver you,” declares the Lord.