Where can you find Usury in the Bible?
The term Usury is found 25 times in Scripture.
It is found 23 times in the Old Testament and 2 times in the New Testament.
The term’s first mention is found in Exodus 22:25 and it’s last mention is found in Luke 19:23 .
Usury is found in the following books of the Bible in order of occurrence: Deuteronomy (7), Ezekiel (4), Exodus (2), Leviticus (2), Nehemiah (2), Isaiah (2), Jeremiah (2), Psalms (1), Proverbs (1), Matthew (1), Luke (1).
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Here are the 25 passages in the Bible where you will find Usury :
| Reference | Passage (KJV) |
|---|---|
| Exodus 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 | Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee. |
| Leviticus 25:37 | Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury , nor lend him thy victuals for increase. |
| 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 5:7 | Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury , every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them. |
| 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 . |
| Psalms 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 ? |
The above references are a simple search performed on the KJV Bible without using case sensitivity.