2009 Initiative - "365 Holy Days": On May 5, 1862, a poorly equipped army of Mexicans and Native Allies won a victory against French invaders at the Battle of Puebla. This victory is the basis for a celebration of Mexican and Chicano heritage throughout the United States and parts of Mexico. Cinco de Mayo, which is Spanish for "Fifth of May", is our starting point today.
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Lesson: The Battle Of Puebla happened on May 5, 1862 because of a moratorium that Mexican President Benito Juarez pronounced on interest payments to England, Spain and France. While England and Spain declined to take force, France moved to occupy Mexico, which was defaulting on its loans by not paying. In short, Cinco de Mayo is really about the consequences of unpaid debt and unsatisfied creditors. While the victory was sweet that day, Mexico ended up occupied by France a year later anyway, 53 years after Mexico's Independence on September 16, 1810.
Money is a physical currency; it is a precious resource because it is a reflection of our own spiritual currency. The way we use money is a manifestation of our walk with Christ or lack thereof. No matter if we spend it, save it, invest it, loan it or give it, we should do all to the glory of God, because we are all really just borrowing it all from Him anyway.Life application: Avoid debt if at all possible! If you have debt, pay it! If you cannot pay it, talk with your creditors and work out a plan. Remind yourself constantly that you are in God's debt because He has made a way for you to get into heaven, namely, by the life, death, burial and resurrection of His Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord, without whom life is not worth living! Key verse: Romans 13:8 - Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
Proverbs 22:26; First Corinthians 1:18; Ephesians 2:12; Hebrews 7:22; Romans 5:8
Notes:
jubileeLeviticus 25suretiesThe Sabbatic Year and Year of JubileeLeviticus 271The LORD then spoke to Moses at Mount Sinai, saying,The Law of Redemption
2"Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, 'When you come into the land which I shall give you, then the land shall have a sabbath to the LORD.
3'Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its crop,
4but during the seventh year the land shall have a sabbath rest, a sabbath to the LORD; you shall not sow your field nor prune your vineyard.
5'Your harvest's aftergrowth you shall not reap, and your grapes of untrimmed vines you shall not gather; the land shall have a sabbatical year.
6'All of you shall have the sabbath products of the land for food; yourself, and your male and female slaves, and your hired man and your foreign resident, those who live as aliens with you.
7'Even your cattle and the animals that are in your land shall have all its crops to eat.
8'You are also to count off seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years, so that you have the time of the seven sabbaths of years, namely, forty-nine years.
9'You shall then sound a ram's horn abroad on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the day of atonement you shall sound a horn all through your land.
10'You shall thus consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim a release through the land to all its inhabitants It shall be a jubilee for you, and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.
11'You shall have the fiftieth year as a jubilee; you shall not sow, nor reap its aftergrowth, nor gather in from its untrimmed vines.
12'For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat its crops out of the field.
13'On this year of jubilee each of you shall return to his own property.
14'If you make a sale, moreover, to your friend or buy from your friend's hand, you shall not wrong one another.
15'Corresponding to the number of years after the jubilee, you shall buy from your friend; he is to sell to you according to the number of years of crops.
16'In proportion to the extent of the years you shall increase its price, and in proportion to the fewness of the years you shall diminish its price, for it is a number of crops he is selling to you.
17'So you shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am the LORD your God.
18'You shall thus observe My statutes and keep My judgments, so as to carry them out, that you may live securely on the land.
19'Then the land will yield its produce, so that you can eat your fill and live securely on it.
20'But if you say, "What are we going to eat on the seventh year if we do not sow or gather in our crops?"
21then I will so order My blessing for you in the sixth year that it will bring forth the crop for three years.
22'When you are sowing the eighth year, you can still eat old things from the crop, eating the old until the ninth year when its crop comes in.23'The land, moreover, shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; for you are but aliens and sojourners with Me.Of Poor Countrymen
24'Thus for every piece of your property, you are to provide for the redemption of the land.
25'If a fellow countryman of yours becomes so poor he has to sell part of his property, then his nearest kinsman is to come and buy back what his relative has sold.
26'Or in case a man has no kinsman, but so recovers his means as to find sufficient for its redemption,
27then he shall calculate the years since its sale and refund the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and so return to his property.
28'But if he has not found sufficient means to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hands of its purchaser until the year of jubilee; but at the jubilee it shall revert, that he may return to his property.
29'Likewise, if a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then his redemption right remains valid until a full year from its sale; his right of redemption lasts a full year.
30'But if it is not bought back for him within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city passes permanently to its purchaser throughout his generations; it does not revert in the jubilee.
31'The houses of the villages, however, which have no surrounding wall shall be considered as open fields; they have redemption rights and revert in the jubilee.
32'As for cities of the Levites, the Levites have a permanent right of redemption for the houses of the cities which are their possession.
33'What, therefore, belongs to the Levites may be redeemed and a house sale in the city of this possession reverts in the jubilee, for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the sons of Israel.
34'But pasture fields of their cities shall not be sold, for that is their perpetual possession.35'Now in case a countryman of yours becomes poor and his means with regard to you falter, then you are to sustain him, like a stranger or a sojourner, that he may live with you.Of Redeeming a Poor Man
36'Do not take usurious interest from him, but revere your God, that your countryman may live with you.
37'You shall not give him your silver at interest, nor your food for gain.
38'I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.
39'If a countryman of yours becomes so poor with regard to you that he sells himself to you, you shall not subject him to a slave's service.
40'He shall be with you as a hired man, as if he were a sojourner; he shall serve with you until the year of jubilee.
41'He shall then go out from you, he and his sons with him, and shall go back to his family, that he may return to the property of his forefathers.
42'For they are My servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt; they are not to be sold in a slave sale.
43'You shall not rule over him with severity, but are to revere your God.
44'As for your male and female slaves whom you may have--you may acquire male and female slaves from the pagan nations that are around you.
45'Then, too, it is out of the sons of the sojourners who live as aliens among you that you may gain acquisition, and out of their families who are with you, whom they will have produced in your land; they also may become your possession.
46'You may even bequeath them to your sons after you, to receive as a possession; you can use them as permanent slaves. But in respect to your countrymen, the sons of Israel, you shall not rule with severity over one another.47'Now if the means of a stranger or of a sojourner with you becomes sufficient, and a countryman of yours becomes so poor with regard to him as to sell himself to a stranger who is sojourning with you, or to the descendants of a stranger's family,
48then he shall have redemption right after he has been sold. One of his brothers may redeem him,
49or his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or one of his blood relatives from his family may redeem him; or if he prospers, he may redeem himself.
50'He then with his purchaser shall calculate from the year when he sold himself to him up to the year of jubilee; and the price of his sale shall correspond to the number of years. It is like the days of a hired man that he shall be with him.
51'If there are still many years, he shall refund part of his purchase price in proportion to them for his own redemption;
52and if few years remain until the year of jubilee, he shall so calculate with him. In proportion to his years he is to refund the amount for his redemption.
53'Like a man hired year by year he shall be with him; he shall not rule over him with severity in your sight.
54'Even if he is not redeemed by these means, he shall still go out in the year of jubilee, he and his sons with him.
55'For the sons of Israel are My servants; they are My servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.Rules concerning ValuationsNumbers 36:4 - "When the jubilee of the sons of Israel comes, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; so their inheritance will be withdrawn from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers."1Again, the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
2"Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, 'When a man makes a difficult vow, he shall be valued according to your valuation of persons belonging to the LORD.
3'If your valuation is of the male from twenty years even to sixty years old, then your valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
4'Or if it is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels.
5'If it be from five years even to twenty years old then your valuation for the male shall be twenty shekels and for the female ten shekels.
6'But if they are from a month even up to five years old, then your valuation shall be five shekels of silver for the male, and for the female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver.
7'If they are from sixty years old and upward, if it is a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
8'But if he is poorer than your valuation, then he shall be placed before the priest and the priest shall value him; according to the means of the one who vowed, the priest shall value him.
9'Now if it is an animal of the kind which men can present as an offering to the LORD, any such that one gives to the LORD shall be holy.
10'He shall not replace it or exchange it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; or if he does exchange animal for animal, then both it and its substitute shall become holy.
11'If, however, it is any unclean animal of the kind which men do not present as an offering to the LORD, then he shall place the animal before the priest.
12'The priest shall value it as either good or bad; as you, the priest, value it, so it shall be.
13'But if he should ever wish to redeem it, then he shall add one-fifth of it to your valuation.
14'Now if a man consecrates his house as holy to the LORD, then the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand.
15'Yet if the one who consecrates it should wish to redeem his house, then he shall add one-fifth of your valuation price to it, so that it may be his.
16'Again, if a man consecrates to the LORD part of the fields of his own property, then your valuation shall be proportionate to the seed needed for it: a homer of barley seed at fifty shekels of silver.
17'If he consecrates his field as of the year of jubilee, according to your valuation it shall stand.
18'If he consecrates his field after the jubilee, however, then the priest shall calculate the price for him proportionate to the years that are left until the year of jubilee; and it shall be deducted from your valuation.
19'If the one who consecrates it should ever wish to redeem the field, then he shall add one-fifth of your valuation price to it, so that it may pass to him.
20'Yet if he will not redeem the field, but has sold the field to another man, it may no longer be redeemed;
21and when it reverts in the jubilee, the field shall be holy to the LORD, like a field set apart; it shall be for the priest as his property.
22'Or if he consecrates to the LORD a field which he has bought, which is not a part of the field of his own property,
23then the priest shall calculate for him the amount of your valuation up to the year of jubilee; and he shall on that day give your valuation as holy to the LORD.
24'In the year of jubilee the field shall return to the one from whom he bought it, to whom the possession of the land belongs.
25'Every valuation of yours, moreover, shall be after the shekel of the sanctuary. The shekel shall be twenty gerahs.
26'However, a firstborn among animals, which as a firstborn belongs to the LORD, no man may consecrate it; whether ox or sheep, it is the LORD'S.
27'But if it is among the unclean animals, then he shall redeem it according to your valuation and add to it one-fifth of it; and if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation.
28'Nevertheless, anything which a man sets apart to the LORD out of all that he has, of man or animal or of the fields of his own property, shall not be sold or redeemed. Anything devoted to destruction is most holy to the LORD.
29'No one who may have been set apart among men shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.
30'Thus all the tithe of the land, of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD'S; it is holy to the LORD.
31'If, therefore, a man wishes to redeem part of his tithe, he shall add to it one-fifth of it.
32'For every tenth part of herd or flock, whatever passes under the rod, the tenth one shall be holy to the LORD.
33'He is not to be concerned whether it is good or bad, nor shall he exchange it; or if he does exchange it, then both it and its substitute shall become holy. It shall not be redeemed.'"
34These are the commandments which the LORD commanded Moses for the sons of Israel at Mount Sinai.Proverbs 22:26 - Do not be among those who give pledges,suretiship
Among those who become guarantors for debts.
Proverbs 11:15 - He who is guarantor for a stranger will surely suffer for it,surety
But he who hates being a guarantor is secure.Genesis 15:13 - God said to Abram, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, where they will be enslaved and oppressed four hundred years.debt
Genesis 18:13 - And the LORD said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Shall I indeed bear a child, when I am so old?'
Genesis 26:9 - Then Abimelech called Isaac and said, "Behold, certainly she is your wife! How then did you say, 'She is my sister'?" And Isaac said to him, "Because I said, 'I might die on account of her.'"
Genesis 43:9 - "I myself will be surety for him; you may hold me responsible for him. If I do not bring him back to you and set him before you, then let me bear the blame before you forever.
Genesis 44:32 - "For your servant became surety for the lad to my father, saying, 'If I do not bring him back to you, then let me bear the blame before my father forever.'
Job 17:3 - "Lay down, now, a pledge for me with Yourself;
Who is there that will be my guarantor?
Psalm 119:122 - Be surety for Your servant for good;
Do not let the arrogant oppress me.
Proverbs 6Parental CounselProverbs 11:15 - He who is guarantor for a stranger will surely suffer for it,1My son, if you have become surety for your neighbor,
Have given a pledge for a stranger,
But he who hates being a guarantor is secure.
Proverbs 17:18 - A man lacking in sense pledges
And becomes guarantor in the presence of his neighbor.
Proverbs 20:16 - Take his garment when he becomes surety for a stranger;
And for foreigners, hold him in pledge.
Proverbs 27:13 - Take his garment when he becomes surety for a stranger;
And for an adulterous woman hold him in pledge.
Acts 12:11 - When Peter came to himself, he said, "Now I know for sure that the Lord has sent forth His angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting."
Hebrews 7:22 - so much the more also Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.1 Samuel 22:2 - Everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented gathered to him; and he became captain over them. Now there were about four hundred men with him.debtor
2 Kings 4:7 - Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, "Go, sell the oil and pay your debt, and you and your sons can live on the rest."
Nehemiah 10:31 - As for the peoples of the land who bring wares or any grain on the sabbath day to sell, we will not buy from them on the sabbath or a holy day; and we will forego the crops the seventh year and the exaction of every debt.
Matthew 18:27 - "And the lord of that slave felt compassion and released him and forgave him the debt.
Matthew 18:30 - "But he was unwilling and went and threw him in prison until he should pay back what was owed.
Matthew 18:32 - "Then summoning him, his lord said to him, 'You wicked slave, I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me.
Romans 4:4 - Now to the one who works, his wage is not credited as a favor, but as what is due.Ezekiel 18:7 - if a man does not oppress anyone, but restores to the debtor his pledge, does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing,debtors
Matthew 23:16 - "Woe to you, blind guides, who say, 'Whoever swears by the temple, that is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple is obligated.'
Romans 1:14 - I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.
Galatians 5:3 - And I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is under obligation to keep the whole Law.
Matthew 6:12 - 'And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.debts
Luke 7:41 - "A moneylender had two debtors: one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.
Luke 16:5 - "And he summoned each one of his master's debtors, and he began saying to the first, 'How much do you owe my master?'
Romans 8:12 - So then, brethren, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh--
Romans 15:27 - Yes, they were pleased to do so, and they are indebted to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual things, they are indebted to minister to them also in material things.Proverbs 22:26 - Do not be among those who give pledges,owe
Among those who become guarantors for debts.
Matthew 6:12 - 'And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
Romans 13:8 - Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.owedMatthew 18:24 - "When he had begun to settle them, one who owed him ten thousand talents was brought to him.owest
Matthew 18:28 - "But that slave went out and found one of his fellow slaves who owed him a hundred denarii; and he seized him and began to choke him, saying, 'Pay back what you owe.'
Luke 7:41 - "A moneylender had two debtors: one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.
Matthew 18:28 - "But that slave went out and found one of his fellow slaves who owed him a hundred denarii; and he seized him and began to choke him, saying, 'Pay back what you owe.'oweth
Luke 16:5 - "And he summoned each one of his master's debtors, and he began saying to the first, 'How much do you owe my master?'
Luke 16:7 - "Then he said to another, 'And how much do you owe?' And he said, 'A hundred measures of wheat.' He said to him, 'Take your bill, and write eighty.'
Philemon 1:19 - I, Paul, am writing this with my own hand, I will repay it (not to mention to you that you owe to me even your own self as well).
Philemon 1:18 - But if he has wronged you in any way or owes you anything, charge that to my account;paid
Ezra 4:20 - that mighty kings have ruled over Jerusalem, governing all the provinces beyond the River, and that tribute, custom and toll were paid to them.pay
Jonah 1:3 - But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD So he went down to Joppa, found a ship which was going to Tarshish, paid the fare and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.
Matthew 5:26 - "Truly I say to you, you will not come out of there until you have paid up the last cent.
Luke 12:59 - "I say to you, you will not get out of there until you have paid the very last cent."Exodus 21:19 - if he gets up and walks around outside on his staff, then he who struck him shall go unpunished; he shall only pay for his loss of time, and shall take care of him until he is completely healed.payed
Exodus 21:22 - "If men struggle with each other and strike a woman with child so that she gives birth prematurely, yet there is no injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman's husband may demand of him, and he shall pay as the judges decide.
Exodus 21:36 - "Or if it is known that the ox was previously in the habit of goring, yet its owner has not confined it, he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead animal shall become his.
Exodus 22:7 - "If a man gives his neighbor money or goods to keep for him and it is stolen from the man's house, if the thief is caught, he shall pay double.
Exodus 22:9 - "For every breach of trust, whether it is for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for clothing, or for any lost thing about which one says, 'This is it,' the case of both parties shall come before the judges; he whom the judges condemn shall pay double to his neighbor.
Exodus 22:17 - "If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equal to the dowry for virgins.
Numbers 20:19 - Again, the sons of Israel said to him, "We will go up by the highway, and if I and my livestock do drink any of your water, then I will pay its price. Let me only pass through on my feet, nothing else."
Deuteronomy 23:21 - "When you make a vow to the LORD your God, you shall not delay to pay it, for it would be sin in you, and the LORD your God will surely require it of you.
2 Samuel 15:7 - Now it came about at the end of forty years that Absalom said to the king, "Please let me go and pay my vow which I have vowed to the LORD, in Hebron.
1 Kings 20:39 - As the king passed by, he cried to the king and said, "Your servant went out into the midst of the battle; and behold, a man turned aside and brought a man to me and said, 'Guard this man; if for any reason he is missing, then your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.'
2 Kings 4:7 - Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, "Go, sell the oil and pay your debt, and you and your sons can live on the rest."
2 Chronicles 8:8 - namely, from their descendants who were left after them in the land whom the sons of Israel had not destroyed, them Solomon raised as forced laborers to this day.
2 Chronicles 27:5 - He fought also with the king of the Ammonites and prevailed over them so that the Ammonites gave him during that year one hundred talents of silver, ten thousand kors of wheat and ten thousand of barley. The Ammonites also paid him this amount in the second and in the third year.
Ezra 4:13 - "Now let it be known to the king, that if that city is rebuilt and the walls are finished, they will not pay tribute, custom or toll, and it will damage the revenue of the kings.
Esther 3:9 - "If it is pleasing to the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who carry on the king's business, to put into the king's treasuries."
Esther 4:7 - Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, and the exact amount of money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the destruction of the Jews.
Job 22:27 - Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.
Psalm 22:25 - My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.
Psalm 50:14 - Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:
Psalm 66:13 - I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows,
Psalm 76:11 - Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God: let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.
Psalm 116:14 - I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people.
Proverbs 19:17 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Proverbs 22:27 - If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
Ecclesiastes 5:4 - When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.
Ecclesiastes 5:5 - Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
Jonah 2:9 - But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD.
Matthew 17:24 - And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to Peter, and said, Doth not your master pay tribute?
Matthew 18:25 - "But since he did not have the means to repay, his lord commanded him to be sold, along with his wife and children and all that he had, and repayment to be made.
Matthew 18:26 - "So the slave fell to the ground and prostrated himself before him, saying, 'Have patience with me and I will repay you everything.'
Matthew 18:28 - "But that slave went out and found one of his fellow slaves who owed him a hundred denarii; and he seized him and began to choke him, saying, 'Pay back what you owe.'
Matthew 18:29 - "So his fellow slave fell to the ground and began to plead with him, saying, 'Have patience with me and I will repay you.'
Matthew 18:30 - "But he was unwilling and went and threw him in prison until he should pay back what was owed.
Matthew 18:34"And his lord, moved with anger, handed him over to the torturers until he should repay all that was owed him.
Matthew 23:23 - "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier provisions of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others.
Luke 7:42 - "When they were unable to repay, he graciously forgave them both. So which of them will love him more?"
Romans 13:6 - For because of this you also pay taxes, for rulers are servants of God, devoting themselves to this very thing.Proverbs 7:14 - "I was due to offer peace offerings;payeth
Today I have paid my vows.
Hebrews 7:9 - And, so to speak, through Abraham even Levi, who received tithes, paid tithes,Psalm 37:21 - The wicked borrows and does not pay back,payment
But the righteous is gracious and gives.Matthew 18:25 - "But since he did not have the means to repay, his lord commanded him to be sold, along with his wife and children and all that he had, and repayment to be made.usuryExodus 22:25 - If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.
Leviticus 25:36 - 'Do not take usurious interest from him, but revere your God, that your countryman may live with you.
Leviticus 25:37 - 'You shall not give him your silver at interest, nor your food for gain.
Deuteronomy 23:19 - Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:
Deuteronomy 23:20 - Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
Nehemiah 5:5 - Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.
Nehemiah 5:10 - I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.
Psalm 15:5 - He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.
Proverbs 28:8 - He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.
Isaiah 24:2 - 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 lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
Jeremiah 15:10 - Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.
Ezekiel 18:8 - He that hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgment between man and man,
Ezekiel 18:13 - Hath given forth upon usury, 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.
Ezekiel 18:17 - That hath taken off his hand from the poor, that hath not received usury 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.
Ezekiel 22:12 - In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.
Matthew 25:27 - Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
Luke 19:23 - Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?
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