Silently the man watched her with interest to determine if the Lord had made his journey successful or not.

"If you loan money to my people, to the poor among you, don't be like a creditor to them and don't impose interest on them.

Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God; that your brother may live among you.

You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

You shall not lend for interest to your brother, interest of silver, interest of food, interest of anything that is loaned on interest.

You may lend on interest to a stranger, but you shall not lend on interest to your brother, so that Jehovah your God may bless you in all that you set your hand to in the land where you go to possess it.

He will let you have his wealth at interest, and will have no need of yours: he will be the head and you the tail.

Mephibosheth bowed down and said, “What is your servant that you take an interest in a dead dog like me?”

Now by chance there was present a good-for-nothing person named Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he, sounding the horn, said, We have no part in David, or any interest in the son of Jesse: let every man go to his tent, O Israel.

Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, you exact interest, every one from his brother. And I held a great assembly against them.

I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, are lending them money and grain: I pray you, let us stop this charging interest.

Please restore to them this day their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, their houses, and the interest on the money, the grain, the grape juice, and the olive oil that you have been taking from them."

They responded, "We will restore these things, and will assess no interest charges against them. We will do what you are requesting!"

And if the people of the land should bring goods or any food on the Sabbath day to sell it, that we would not buy it from them on the Sabbath or on the holy day, and that we would leave the seventh year, and the interest of every debt.

Then Haman informed King Ahasuerus, “There is one ethnic group, scattered throughout the peoples in every province of your kingdom, yet living in isolation. Their laws are different from everyone else’s and they do not obey the king’s laws. It is not in the king’s best interest to tolerate them.

For what is his interest in his home after his death, when the number of his months has been broken off?

Is it of any interest to the Ruler of all that you are upright? or is it of use to him that your ways are without sin?

He does not lend his money at interest, and does not take a bribe against [the] innocent. He who does these [things] will never be shaken.

The arrogant utterly ridicule me,
Yet I do not turn away from Your law.

He that augmenteth his substance by interest and increase, Gathereth it for him that hath pity on the poor.

The righteous man cares for the rights of the poor,
But the wicked man has no interest in such knowledge.

a man to whom God has given riches and wealth and honor, so that he lacks nothing of all that he desires, yet God has not given him the power or capacity to enjoy them [all those things which are gifts from God], but a stranger [in whom he has no interest succeeds him and] enjoys them. This is vanity and it is a [cause of] great distress.

It is better to focus on what you can see than to meander after your self-interest; this also is pointless and a chasing after wind.

(The Chorus)“Where has your beloved gone,
O most beautiful among women?
Where is your beloved hiding himself,
That we may seek him with you?”

And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest to him.

"Why have we fasted,' they ask, "but you do not see? "Why have we humbled ourselves,' they ask, "but you take no notice?'" "Look! On your fast day you serve your own interest and oppress all your workers.

Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent for interest, nor men have lent to me for interest; yet everyone of them does curse me.

For when a native Israeli or a resident alien abandons me to set up idols in his heart behind my back, and then places the stumbling block of his iniquity right in front of his own face, then approaches a prophet to inquire of me on behalf of his own self-interest, I, the LORD will answer him myself.

He that hath not given forth upon interest, neither hath taken any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgment between man and man,

Hath given forth upon interest, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.

That hath taken off his hand from the poor, that hath not received interest nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.

You shall say, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “A city shedding blood in her midst, so that her time will come, and that makes idols, contrary to her interest, for defilement!

In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken interest and increase, and thou hast greedily gained from thy neighbors by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.

Sow in righteousness in your own interest, reap in gracious love, break up your own unprepared ground; It is now time to inquire of the LORD, until he comes to pour out righteousness for you.

And if thy right hand leads thee to offend, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is highly thy interest that one of thy members should be destroyed, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

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

Why, then, did you not put my money in the bank, and at my coming I would have got back what is mine with interest?

so if satan rise up in opposition to his own interest, his power cannot subsist, but must entirely cease.

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.

Jesus commanded them not to tell anyone; but the more He ordered them, the more widely they continued to proclaim it.

If you lend [money] to those from whom you expect to receive [it back], what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners expecting to receive back the same amount.

“A certain moneylender had two debtors: one owed him five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.

He who is not with Me [believing in Me as Lord and Savior] is against Me [there is no impartial position]; and he who does not gather with Me [assisting in My ministry], scatters.

When you are going with your adversary before the magistrate, pay the interest, and get your discharge, while you are on the way; for fear he should bring you before the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into jail.

If you were not faithful in the interest of another, who will give you your own?

then wherefore gavest thou not my money into the bank, and I at my coming should have required it with interest?

Because he is a servant he has no interest in the sheep.

you little consider it is our interest, that one man should die for the people, to prevent the destruction of the whole nation.

It was Caiaphas who had said to the Jews that it was in their interest for one man to be put to death for the people.

But brethren, look out seven men from you of good report, full of the Spirit and wisdom, whom we shall appoint over this interest;

And Herod was going to make war upon the Tyrians and Sidonians: but they came to him with one consent, and making interest with Blastus the king's chamberlain, they sued for peace; because their territory was supplied with provision by the king's country.

Symeon has told how God first showed an interest in taking from among the heathen a people to bear his name.

Then, all of them [Note: This "all" could refer to the Greeks, the Jews or the Roman officers. Since the text does not specify, it seems most reasonable to suggest it was the Romans] grabbed Sosthenes, the leader of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the court of justice. But Gallio showed no interest in the whole affair.

And not only is this interest in danger to us to come into disrepute; but even the temple of the great goddess Diana to be considered for nought, and they are about even to despise the majesty of her, whom all Asia and the world worships.

but to those of self-interest, and who indeed disobey the truth but have confidence in unrighteousness--anger and wrath,

who was handed over on account of our trespasses, and was raised up in the interest of our justification.

We know also that those who love God, those who have been called in terms of his purpose, have his aid and interest in everything.

It is in your own interest that I say this; not that I may entangle you in a snare, but that I may help you to serve the Lord with fitting and undistracted service.

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.

Let no man consult barely his own interest: but every man that of others.

so that there would be no division or discord in the body [that is, lack of adaptation of the parts to each other], but that the parts may have the same concern for one another.

was this design therefore the effect of levity? or do I design first one thing, and then another, as it best suits my worldly interest?

Now I will give you my opinion on this matter. For this is for your interest, because you were not only the first to do anything about it, but the first to want to do so; you started it a year ago.

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

For Titus not only accepted our appeal, but was so very interested in you that he has gone to visit you of his own accord.

And not only that, but he has been elected by the Churches to accompany us on our journey, in Keynesian with this expression of your love, which we are personally administering to the honor of the Lord, and to show our deep interest.

Along with them I am also sending our brother: I have had ample proof of his keen interest on many occasions, and it is specially keen on this occasion, as he has absolute confidence in you.

For we can do nothing against the truth, but only for the truth [and the gospel—the good news of salvation].

And I went farther in the Jews' religion than a number of my generation among my countrymen, having a more burning interest in the beliefs handed down from my fathers.

Their interest in you is not good; but their desire is that you may be shut out, so that you may go after them.

But it is good to have an interest in a good cause at all times, and not only when I am present with you.

Christ is of no use to you, whoever of you seek to be justified by the law; you have lost all interest in the gospel-dispensation.

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,

let no man consult only his private interest, but let every man consult likewise the interest of others.

for there is no one that is so dear to me as he, and no one will more sincerely interest himself in your concerns.

I rejoiced greatly in the Lord, that now at last you have renewed your concern for me; indeed, you were concerned about me before, but you had no opportunity to show it.

It is not the money I am anxious for; what I am anxious for is the interest that accumulates in this way to your divine credit!

At present I am glad to be suffering in your interest, and I am making up in my own person what is lacking in Christ's sufferings for the church, which is his body.

For I can testify to his deep interest in you and in those in Laodicea and Hierapolis.

he is conceited, understanding nothing, but has a sick interest in disputes and arguments over words. From these come envy, quarreling, slander, evil suspicions,

hardhearted, irreconcilable, slanderous, without self-control, savage, with no interest for what is good,

But you have followed [Note: These words mean "to observe closely, have a keen interest in"] my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, perseverance,

let all your anxieties fall upon him, for his interest is in you.

no renegado that deserts the doctrine of Christ, has any interest in the deity: he that adheres to the doctrine of Christ, has an interest both in the father, and in the son.

and if any one shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall exclude him from any interest in the tree of life, and in the holy city, and in the things which are written in this book."